[Dark Skies]

"made a deal with the Devil"

I have read extensively about Hitler and his henchmen (bios) and it is hard to argue with the idea that it was Hitler's intent to make such a deal.

If a person is spiritually inclined, they might ask how it is that an interesting young man with little apparent skill but towering ambition becomes an empire-building monster.

Hitler begs the question...where did his genius come from...it appeared later in life? Also, he knows things that, by his experience, education or reading, he should not know.

[USF]

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[VOA]

Hitler begs the question...where did his genius come from...it appeared later in life?
Also, he knows things that, by his experience, education or reading, he should not know.

Here's my (VOA's) inexpert speculation on that.
Hitler apparently was a fairly avid reader, so I suspect that even with
an "above average" (not genius), he picked up on a lot of things the average
German either didn't have time or desire to grasp.
Plus, with some idle time on his hands during prison and being sponsored by
some powerful people, he probably got exposed to some of the inner workings
of Germany's "power elite".

That sort of background, combined with maybe a gift at speech-making
(crowd-control), manipulation (carrot and sticks for subordinates) and
the mess that Germany was after WWI and Weimar...
a fairly average, but determined fellow could go a long way!

(there was a good article last year in The Atlantic Monthly titled something
like "Hitler's Secret Library" that shows his wide choices in reading.)