What does Hitler sound like to Germans today?

@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.

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

i think what was so compelling about him was how passionate he was about helping out his people/country. you say his accent is similar to the us southern accent. well if thats the case then he spoke like a man of the people. he spoke as tho he was one of them, who had hardships

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.

Saying that German spoken with an Austrian accent is comparable with comparing the rest of the USA with its southern states is the most incredible nonsense.

I do not speak German so would not understand what Hitler was saying. I do know that he promoted the most evil hypotheses and was the cause of the death of millions of people because of their ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or the fact they were disabled or simply a twin.

I have absolutely no desire to listen to any of Hitler's diatribes.

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.

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.

@M:  First you say "Saying that German spoken with an Austrian accent is comparable with comparing the rest of the USA with its southern states is the most incredible nonsense", then IMMEDIATELY follow that with "I do not speak German".

Do you even listen to yourself??  You're a complete moron!  Most if not all countries have different accents in the north versus the south.  An Austrian or Bavarian accent is PRECISELY the equivalent to a Southern accent in the US.

You're an idiot and should refrain form answering questions on here. Obviously I have no desire for answers from morons such as yourself.

@Catherine – Sure, especially at that time not long after the first world war when Germany was economically depressed and under strict conditions imposed by their surrender.  Then along comes a passionate leader who manipulated his way into power.  In hindsight we KNOW he was a lunatic, but what I'm interested in is, were there any obvious clues to the extent of his psychosis.

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) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯