Hitler was a gifted GERMAN leader. He resonated with a strictly GERMAN audience.(Remember radio and film as mass communication media were just coming in- which helped him.) He had little appeal for a non-German audience.
Hitler had a major flaw and it is quite common even among the gifted, and it goes like this: "I'm a great political leader-which he was; therefore I'm a great military genius-which he wasn't.) His flawed thinking lead to a refusal to finish the Bitish at Dunkirk and to refuse to allow his army to maneuver at Stalingrad and thereafter. The era of the late twenties to midforties was the age of warring giants: Hitler, Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin and even Mussolini. Leadership today is-well one has only to look and listen, their appearance says all.
“He was not a vice ridden individual. Indeed he was rather puritanical in word and deed.”
Hitler was a full metaljacket psychopath. He was not a virtous man who was corrupted by absolute power, he was stark raving mad.
And his homosexual proclivities have been well known for a decades. It is nothing new. I knew about them in the sixties.
There remain a lot of human characteristics that are unique to the German people. Taking an untenable military position in Europe seems to be a fatal one. Gesundheit.