In speeches as well as writing, he could express himself diplomatically, but as evinced below, his true knack was to demonise, inspire hatred and (ultimately) war and genocide. Witnesses have attested to the hypnotic effect Hitler could have on an audience: one minute holding them in rapt attention, the next whipping them into an hysterical frenzy. Hitler used populist themes and tapped into the fear, resentment and insecurity of vast swathes of German society, which were experiencing hardship and feelings of defeat after the First World War. He used his words to disseminate his controversial populism and rile the crowd against his enemies, whether perceived or real: Jews, Marxists, foreign powers… whatever the situation demanded. From early on in his political career, Adolf Hitler was known for his enthusiastic - sometimes even frenetic - style of speech-making.
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