hitler

245“Undoubtedly,” says a Nationalist author, “he is thegreatest orator Germany has had in the last hundred years.”“Where a Hitler marches a Hohenzollern is proud to go,”declares Prince August Wilhelm, Kaiser Wilhelm‟s son.“A tenor is not a man. He is an affliction,” says the LondonObserver, applying to Hitler Hans von Buelow‟s remark.His voice is distressingly high-pitched when he beginsto speak. His first words are lost while he musters his forcesto overcome inertia and resistance. Then he begins to asserthimself and becomes the leader of an orchestra composednot of musicians with their instruments but of thousandsof brains. He hypnotizes his musicians to subordinatetheir wills to his. For one refusing to be hypnotized, it isirritating that it takes Hitler two hours to develop his maintheme.The sounds issue from his lips in ripples that rise andfall. Even the neutral observer realizes that those sounds regulatethe heart-beating of the crowd. He feels that if thewords did not come from the speaker‟s mouth, life wouldstop all around.Charwomen and university professors, primitive savagesand highly refined intellectuals hang on his words.Many of them are more intelligent and better educated, moresincere and broad-minded than their leader. Some of themeven know that he preaches either madness or platitudes andthat he draws upon the half-digested knowledge of others.Yet, he has the power of transmitting his madness and furyto millions who have lost hope.Although his gestures are affected and theatrical, he