He was an evil genius.
There are such people. Napoleon Bonaparte was another.
Hitler had an uncanny ability to find the right words at the right time; an incredible extemporaneous speaker. We today have a hard time grasping just how well this worked in German, in his time and place. Consider him, in his milieu, something like Ted Cruz in abilities as a speaker. In private also he was said to be modest and charming, and to inspire loyalty. He was not a prima donna to the “little people”.
Napoleon was much like this too BTW.
Hitler also had an uncanny grasp of political-military situations, and seemed to know just what to do and when, and what he could get away with. He racked up a tremendous run of victories, sometimes through bluff, sometimes with the skill of a matador in distracting his enemies while putting in the knife when they least expected it. He was also, usually, an excellent judge of men, both his opponents and his underlings, many of whom really were exceptional, Hjalmar Schacht, Speer, Guderian, Manstein, etc . He knew good advice when he heard it, until his ego went beyond reason. Much like Napoleon in this also.
I highly recommend reading Mein Kampf, its not great literature and its not been helped much by its English translators, but it is a powerful work, and in it is what amounts to a very practical, amoral political manual. I am convinced Alinski took a lot from it - Hitler himself said he was copying communist tactics of the day.
Hitler had an uncanny ability to find the right words at the right time; an incredible extemporaneous speaker. We today have a hard time grasping just how well this worked in German, in his time and place. Consider him, in his milieu, something like Ted Cruz in abilities as a speaker.
You mean like Barry Obama... with the same phalanx of fanatics FORCING his charisma.. And larger cadre of those burning to perform personal destruction on those nor willing to submit.. to his idiot ideas..
Hitler was not crazy he was a moron.. USED by others for reflected power(and riches) and an excuse for just following orders.. personally UN-blameable for atrocities..
Like: Barry Obama.. Bill Clinton.. and her who’s name should not be spoken.. in polite discourse..
Both Hitler & Napoleon benefited from being able to point out those seeking to destroy them; the Versailles treaty and the campaign of the European monarchs to overthrow the French Revolution were great rallying points for the German and French populations respectively.
“Mein Kampf” isn’t a great book, but it explains a lot; definitely one of the saddest books written. Hitler explains away his failed art career with WWI poison gas damage to his eyes, but he didn’t wear glasses afterwards.