Hitler as Political Artist

“What Hitler was able to do to a crowd in 2-1/2 hours will never be repeated in 10,000 years!” —Ernst Hanfstaengl, Hitler’s early confidant   “Hitler was one of the first great rock stars. He was no politician; he was a great media artist. How he worked his audience! ... The world will never see anything like that again. He made an entire country a stage show.” —David Bowie, British rock legend   As a young man in Vienna, Adolf Hitler was sleeping on park benches in 1909, just a real “