Theories remain theories when living men to not give them expression. Living people in difficult times follow only an appeal that reaches their hearts because it comes from the heart. His ability to reach the masses is unique and remarkable, fitting no organizational scheme or dogma. It would be ridiculous to think he attended some sort of speaker school; he is a rhetorical genius who developed his own abilities with no help from anyone else.
He speaks his heart, and therefore reaches the hearts of those who hear him. He has the amazing gift of sensing what is in the air. He has the ability to express things so clearly, logically. He uses both, depending on the needs of the moment. The essential characteristics of his speeches to the people are: clear organization, irrefutable logical reasoning, simplicity and clarity of expression, razor-sharp dialectic, a developed and sure instinct for the masses and their feelings, an electrifying emotional appeal that is used sparingly, and the ability to reach out to the souls of the people in a way that never goes unanswered.
From the beginning, he was rejected. For two hours he struggled with the stubbornness of his audience, addressing all their problems and objections until at the end there was only thundering agreement, jubilation, and enthusiasm.
That got to the heart of it. He had stood the egg on its end. He clarified the confused and mysterious nature of the age. He showed his hearers in a clear and simply way that the man in the street had long sensed, but had not found the courage to express. Hitler said what everyone thought and felt!
More than that, he had the civil courage in the face of nearly everyone else to express with iron logic what had to be done. As he began, it was all he had. He had only a strong heart and his pure word.
Using them, he reached the deepest depths of the souls of his people. He did not speak like everyone else. He could not be compared with them. He did more than simply talk about them, he was not a mere reporter like the others. He took the events of the day and gave them a larger national significance that put them in context.
He appealed to the good, not the bad instincts of the masses. His speaking was a magnet that drew to him whomever in the people who still had iron in his blood.
Since they entirely lacked rhetorical ability, they thought his was a lesser form of leadership. They strove for power without realizing that Marxism had taken power from them by force, and would give up that power only as the result of force.
They formed groups when they needed a national movement. They attempted putsches when revolution was in the air. They held the masses in contempt because they did not want to lead them. The masses bow only to him who puts them under his uncompromising command. They obey only him who knows how to give orders. They have a fine instinct for determining if something is really meant, or only said.
It is perhaps a classic proof of the inner strength of the German people that it heard the appeal of a man who went his own way, in opposition to the state and society, the press and public opinion, apparently against all reason and good sense.
An historic figure who has such impact must command all the skills of the spoken word. He speaks as confidently before workers as before scientists. His words strike deep into the hearts of farmers and city-dwellers. Good Subscriber Account active since Shortcuts.
Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. It often indicates a user profile. Log out. Amanda Macias. Hitler's rhetoric found a German audience after the onset of the global Great Depression.
Hitler's oratory was not always persuasive. He also used intimidation and violence to seize power. Get a daily selection of our top stories based on your reading preferences. Loading Something is loading. Email address. His words go like an arrow to their target, he touches each private wound on the raw, liberating the mass unconscious, expressing its innermost aspirations, telling it what it most wants to hear Hitler responds to the vibrations of the human heart with the delicacy of a seismograph, or perhaps of a wireless receiving set, enabling him, with a certainty with which no conscious gift could endow him, to act as a loud-speaker proclaiming the most secret desires, the least admissible instincts, the sufferings and personal revolts of a whole nation I have been asked many times what is the secret of Hitler's extraordinary power as a speaker.
I can only attribute it to his uncanny intuition, which infallibly diagnoses the ills from which his audience is suffering But his very principle is negative. He only knows what he wants to destroy. He pulls down the walls without any idea of what he will build in their place.
I was born in , so from on my earliest memories are sitting in the kitchen hearing the voice of Hitler on the radio. It's a hard thing to describe, but the voice itself was mesmeric The amazing thing is that the body comes through on the radio. I can't put it any other way. You feel you're following the gestures. In the German language, Hitler drew on a kind of rhetorical power which - in a way is perhaps a little bit peculiar to German - allies highly abstract concepts with political, physical violence in a most unusual way.
And Hitler was easily a genius at that, absolutely no doubt about it. Therefore all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and they should be used like slogans until the very last man in the audience is capable of understanding what is meant by this slogan But if I awaken in them the appropriate emotions, then they will follow the simple slogans I give them.
In the mass meeting, the reasoning power is paralysed The cruder and more brutal your language, the larger the crowd who will be ready to listen to you Haven't you ever seen a crowd collecting to watch a street brawl? Brutality and physical strength is what they respect. The man in the street respects nothing more than strength and ruthlessness - women too for that matter. For decades, I have helped men and women in a range of professions to feel confident, communicate clearly, and stop expressing public sympathy for the Nazi project.
I should know. I used to begin my work presentations with a three-minute warning about world domination by international Jewry. Now I start off with a joke. Below are a few basic tips. Most important: be a problem-solver. Speak in simple language.
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