Emil Ludwig

"e works to create the single great impression that here is a prophet whose heart is bleeding for the fate of his people. ...e is sly enough to use an arrangement on his speaker's desk through which, b…"

"Since the banks and the big industrialists wished to rid themselves of the Socialists, with their wage demands and strikes, they contributed generously to this popular party. ...Hitler's speeches cons…"

"His effect, in complete contrast to Mussolini's... he juggles with mystical notions such as Honor, Blood, and Soil, and thus wraps his audience in that cloud of mysticism which the Germans love far mo…"

"As a man without religion, without philosophy, without principles, he balked at nothing. ...e concealed... his desire for self-aggrandizement, and... believes in his own idealism."

"Hitler's technique of oratory is largely the result of... mass psychology... He declared to his small, new party that everything depended on fascinating the crowd. Above all... restore to the German p…"

"Hitler's aim was to attract attention to himself. ...e personally arranged all the lighting effects and spotlights, as well as his entry into a hall with fanfares. He trained crowds to salute with the…"

"The Germans, who love order more than freedom, and whose ruling passion is obedience, rejoiced in their release from an uncomfortable equality into new ranks of superiors and inferiors. This is the se…"

"As a stage manager and advertiser, he gave proof as real genius. In his book... "The Entente," he writes, "won the war simply and solely by its propaganda." A crowd is ready to believe anything, "true…"