Hitler aped silent screen actors and their exaggerated gestures. If you watch him speak today, at times he appears to be having some kind of fit. The Germans ate it up much the same way North Koreans are reduced to tears of joy upon hearing birds speaking in human voices praising Dear Leader.
Mein Kampf is mostly gibberish, but it did lay out what Hitler and his Nazis were planning. Marx’s Das Kapital would be more productive reading in order to understand what Obama and company are planning. Mein Kampf Cliff notes on the totalitarian state Hitler planned would be worth reading.
But Hitler was worth emulating for his speaking and thoughts? No more than another megalomaniacal tyrant who plagues us today.
Only for his speaking.
Go to youtube and watch some of his early speeches with subtitles.
When you know the words he is speaking, in context, and his gestures...exaggerated as they were...he WAS very impressive.
Even now. In the context of what happened.
Yes, he did. He also rehearsed for hours in front of a mirror. Goebbels imitated the style so well it's sometimes difficult to tell the two apart. Himmler as well although with less success.
What these men were accustomed to was speaking with no amplification to a large room full of listeners, and the exaggerated gestures became more and more necessary as the crowds got larger. Take a look at microphone placement for all three men: it's much further forward than anyone uses today. They shout into it as if it isn't there. All of the rhetorical drama, the exaggerated gestures, the modulation of the voice, all of that was essentially stage acting. No contemporary politician could possibly get away with it and most of them aren't smart enough ever to have heard of it.