hitler

246knows how to fling his arms toward the ceiling with a weightlessforce bespeaking inner compulsion. He may be an actorand all he says may mean nothing to him in waking hours,but when he speaks he is in a trance and he has the powerto carry away those who want to be carried away. He hasan oversupply of personal magnetism, and it is a potent force.Without the power of his personality he could explain even todayto six men at a table the fine distinction between “raffendes”and “schaffendes” capital, as he has learned it fromGottfried Feder, his tutor and disciple.A last flourish of the hands breaks the spell and a thunderousapplause follows. Hitler‟s happy smile tells of anactor‟s joy in a part superbly played.Flowers, the Fascist salute, Hitler‟s photographs all over,– and the crowd makes way for the great man. As long asHitler‟s vocal chords are unimpaired he will be the greatestasset of the National Socialist Party. But what would happenif they were impaired?These personal impressions may be supplemented withthe observations of others. Professor von Gruber, a Nationalistbut not of the Nazi kind, observed him at close rangeand summarized his impressions in these words:“The expression of his face was not that of a man in fullpossession of his mental faculties, but of a man insanely excited.The muscles of his cheeks twitched repeatedly. Atthe end of his speech he registered happy self-satisfaction.”How did the great protagonist of racial purity appear tothe noted anthropologist?“Face and skull reveal racial inferiority,” Professor von