Adolf Hitler (n.) had a charisma resting largely on a fanatical faith in himself, and on the fact that modern society, in its desperate inability to form judgments, will take every individual for what he professes himself to be.
Adolf Hitler (n.) owed his real superiority to the fact that under any and all circumstances he had an opinion, and that his opinion always fit perfectly into his over-all "philosophy."
Adolf Hitler (n.) had one greatest gift, to which he owed his success and which brought about his downfall: pure logic, if logic means pressing on to conclusions with a total disregard for all reality and all experience.
Adolf Hitler (n.) was not like Jenghiz Khan and not worse than some other great criminal but entirely different.
Adolf Hitler (n.) built his organization on the firm ground of an already atomized society, which he then artificially atomized even further.
Adolf Hitler (n.) was not simply an agent of German industrialists; that belief is a legend refuted by many facts, but above all by his indisputable popularity.
Adolf Hitler (n.) was, far more often than he lied, completely sincere and brutally unequivocal about the movement's true aims, but a public unprepared for such consistency simply did not acknowledge it.
Adolf Hitler (n.) always initiated the actually "radical" measures himself, not Himmler, Bormann, or Goebbels, and they were always more radical than the proposals made by his immediate environment.