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A. T.
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A. T. asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 1 decade ago

Was Adolf Hitler Really A Good Orator?

Why do so many people today praise Adolf Hitler as an eloquent public speaker - yet they have never listened to his speeches, nor do they understand what he was saying?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    NOPE HE NEVER WILL BE AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHHA IDK

  • 1 decade ago

    Without this talent nobody can be a great leader same like Hitler. it is a fact. Everyone know Hitler who is from poor background but established as a great dictator. It isn't normal. So then it needless to listen him. His progressed vividly tells he is an eloquent public speaker. All the people know Hitler fools people in his stupid and cruel matter by the talent of expression. Even he had done wrong but we all have to accept and praise his expression style which is great. how it is! if only he express beautiful and well human matter. Thanks.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    They're not praising the content of the speeches. They're praising the effect.

    It doesn't matter if you give a speech consisting of the most moving topics if you can't deliver it well.

    If your audience isn't moved to react, and basically spends the time of the speech checking their watches or struggling to stay awake, the speech will be judged ineffective.

    Hitler, like many other great speakers, could motivate based on his gestures, his inflection, his overall delivery.

    In one of his speeches, he did a traditional speaking trick where he had the crowd up on the verge of going crazy at the end of his speech, then he finished & sharply turned his back to the crowd & walked away from the mike. The crowd now going crazy, he turned to nod & give the ol' Nazi salute. This trick (minus the salute, lol) would be used by Martin Luther King in his "I Have a Dream" speech, where he finishes with "...thank God Almighty we are Free at Last!" and then he retreats from the podium. When he did his last public speech to a crowd in Selma, Alabama, he ended with "...I have seen the coming of the Lord!" and sharply turned from the podium & walked away. Leaving the crowd going wild.

    Source(s): Public speaking experience
  • molly
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    I dont know of anyone who praises Hitler for anything unless of course you're a nazi.

    Hitler was indeed a very good public speaker, he did know how to work a crowd to his avantage. I have seen nearly every documentary made about Hitler, so ya dont have to understand German to see that he commanded the stage whenever he spoke to large crowds.

    Now then just what in the hell are they teaching in schools these days? I learned about Hitler in middle school.

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