“Without the changed conditions, the product of a lost war, a revolution and a pervasive sense of national humiliation, Hitler would have remained a nobody. His main ability by far, as he came to realise during the course of 1919, was that in the prevailing circumstances he could inspire an audience which shared his basic political feelings, by the way he spoke, by the force of his rhetoric, by the very power of his prejudice, by the conviction he conveyed that there was a way out of Germany's plight.” WayWarFeelingsPoliticalCoursesLostForceAbilityHistoryAudienceConditionsChangedInspireProductsRevolutionCircumstancesPrejudiceConvictionGermanySpokesRealisingRhetoricHumiliationNazismPrevailingNazi GermanyPlight Author:Ian Kershaw
“Hitler was no inexorable product of a German 'special path', no logical culmination of long-term trends in specifically German culture and ideology. Nor was he a mere 'accident' in the course of German history.” LongCultureCoursesTermHistoryPathSpecialProductsMereAccidentsIdeologyLong TermLogicalTrendsNazismNazi GermanyInexorableCulminationGerman History Book:Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris Source: Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris
