Was Hitler Good At Public Speaking?

[anotheoldgit]

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?

[boxtops]

I heard that on Radio 4 last night.

[naomi24]

It's been discussed.

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1356739.html

[Canary42]

Tut tut, trolling again.

[black_cat51]

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

[scooping]

The MoS lead is ridiculous. All the guy did was compare and contrast different orators, something that happens in universities every day.

[anotheoldgit]

naomi24

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

I don't think so.

[mikey4444]

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.

[youngmafbog]

Hitler was a tremendous orater. Just look at the way he whips up the rowd whilst virtually saying nothing.

[naomi24]

See that thread from 22:10 Sat 09th Aug 2014.

[youngmafbog]

Hitler was a very bad man but why does that stop discussion about him?

[naomi24]

^That was to AOG.

And yes, Hitler was good at public speaking.

[ToraToraTora]

Yes, Hitler was a very good orator.

[black_cat51]

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

[anotheoldgit]

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.

[jim360]

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.

[jno]

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.

[jno]

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.)