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by kafkaesq 3450 days ago
Books are for eggheads; you need to see him live, man. According to a witness at the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch:

I cannot remember in my entire life such a change in the attitude of a crowd in a few minutes, almost a few seconds ... Hitler had turned them inside out, as one turns a glove inside out, with a few sentences. It had almost something of hocus-pocus, or magic about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Hall_Putsch