Oh yes, the Third Reich just dropped out of nowhere
It's crazy how much of the way we teach ww2 acts like this is the case. Hitler was so good at giving speeches that he tricked everyone into thinking Jews were bad.
I'd believe that he was good at rallying the base tbh, but the idea that he somehow convinced otherwise fine Germans to do the holocaust through the power of rhetoric is pure ideology
One of his big "innovations" was using airplanes to campaign and hold rallys all across Germany (technically it was Gorbbles idea). But like you said, that'd would just give you a slight advantage, the German people were hungry for blood regardless of Hitler's speeches.
It's crazy how much of the way we teach ww2 acts like this is the case. Hitler was so good at giving speeches that he tricked everyone into thinking Jews were bad.
Yeah, i'm extra double sceptical of anybody telling me how convincing and charismatic Hitler was. I mean, seriously, look at that fucking dweeb.
I'd believe that he was good at rallying the base tbh, but the idea that he somehow convinced otherwise fine Germans to do the holocaust through the power of rhetoric is pure ideology
One of his big "innovations" was using airplanes to campaign and hold rallys all across Germany (technically it was Gorbbles idea). But like you said, that'd would just give you a slight advantage, the German people were hungry for blood regardless of Hitler's speeches.
He just wrote one hell of a book. People read it and said "wow I'm a fascist now".
controlling people's minds with clunky, pretentious prose