What does Hitler sound like to Germans today?

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I've just been watching some Youtube videos about the second world war, and I can speak some German so I listened to some of Hitler's speeches to see if I could understand him.

I tried to understand what was so compelling about his speeches that caused citizens to feel so inspired.

Also I try to imagine what he would sound like in English; probably he spoke with an Austria accent (?), which in the US would correspond to a southern accent.

Still it's hard to imagine.  So I'm just curious what native German speakers think when you hear him today?  Does he sound like a raving lunatic, or just an impassioned speaker?

Do you sense anything obviously wrong with him psychologically by listening to his speeches?  What does he sound like to you??

Scobri · Accepted Answer

@GuantanamoGeorge:  If you're attempting to draw some kind of comparison between Trump vs Hitler, that's so lame.  A sovereign nation has every right to decide its own immigration policies, especially when those policies have been disregarded and taken advantage of by so many for so long.

Mark · Answer

Not very much.  Germans are generally nice and DESIPISE Hilter.

JimZ · Answer

I think they are little embarrassed by him, at least the Germans that I knew, but he was a good manipulator.  He told people what they wanted to hear.  He practiced his speeches and he perfected them.  There was a lot of anger from the previous war and the post war agreements.  Hitler sounds like a raving lunatic because we have history to see what he did.  There are lots of raving lunatics out there and it seems many of them become politicians.

GuantanamoGeorge · Answer

If you've lived in America for the last five years and you find it strange that the majority of a white population can be impressed by a politician's deranged racist screaming, you have not been very observant.

otto saxo · Answer

I recommend you to listen to the speech of Ernst Reuter when the Berlin Blockade started, and to the transmission of the Football World Cup final in 1954.

All of this is sounding sick, or at least ridiculously exaggerated to people of today. It was a time when speakers imitated pompous stage actors.
It has never been just a German phenomenon. It's also a typical feature of old newsreels from around the world, a matter of time and fashion, which suddenly vanished everywhere not before the late 1950s.

? · Answer

You asked: '' I tried to understand what was so compelling about his speeches that caused citizens to feel so inspired ''.

I think people wanted to try another type of government. Like they do with any other new guy who runs for to be a leader (whatever the country) ¯&#92;_(ツ)_/¯

What does Hitler sound like to Germans today?

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