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Was Hitler Good At Public Speaking?

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anotheoldgit | 11:41 Sun 10th Aug 2014 | News
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/11024182/Ukip-MEP-Hitlers-powers-of-public-speaking-are-an-inspiration.html

Strange that this hasn't been entered up for ridicule, by the anti-UKIP brigade?

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separating art from artist is always awkward. Refuse to listen to Wagner because he was anti-semitic? Refuse to look at a Caravaggio painting because he was a murderous thug? Refuse to watch a Riefenstahl film because she was a Nazi? In fact, Riefenstahl's films of the Olympics is imitated all the time, every time a camera glides over an athlete's body: she...
13:57 Sun 10th Aug 2014
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I heard that on Radio 4 last night.
Tut tut, trolling again.
probably because most people don't care. The person from UKIP was incredibly stupid to think that praising hitler's good points in any context is ever a good idea, and won't have repercussions
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The MoS lead is ridiculous. All the guy did was compare and contrast different orators, something that happens in universities every day.
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naomi24

/// It's been discussed. ///

I don't think so.
I agree with blackcat here. It was a serious error of judgement for this idiot to even mention Hitler. Another lack of judgement from a Party that we have come to expect this sort of thing from.
Hitler was a tremendous orater. Just look at the way he whips up the rowd whilst virtually saying nothing.
See that thread from 22:10 Sat 09th Aug 2014.
Hitler was a very bad man but why does that stop discussion about him?
^That was to AOG.

And yes, Hitler was good at public speaking.
Yes, Hitler was a very good orator.
it doesn't stop discussion - it is just very inadvisable (and crass) for a polititian to do it (especially one from a right-wing party
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mikey4444

/// It was a serious error of judgement for this idiot to even mention Hitler. Another lack of judgement from a Party that we have come to expect this sort of thing from. ///

Ah yes the usual insults from the frightened left, who would wish to see an end to freedom of speech, unless of course they themselves approve.

Hitler and Churchill were both brilliant orators. I think we should acknowledge that. On the other hand it's dangerous politically to go near "Hitler was good at ____". Rightly or wrongly, it's too toxic to be touched in that context. Academics, on the other hand, are, or at least should be, free to praise his good points.
a very good orator. Watching Triumph of the Will, it wasn't as tub-thumping or aggressive as you might expect, it was more stirring up resentment whining about how unfair other countries are, doing our once-great nation down...

A bit like life in the AB News section in some ways.
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Jim, I wonder how good Churchill was, at least at "public" speaking. I have no idea if he could have held a crowd as Hitler did; his business was speaking in parliament. (For rebroadcasting over the radio, some of these speeches were actually rerecorded by actors, I believe.)

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