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    Quote Originally posted by KeepTrying View Post
    Why didn't Hitler write down his own thoughts?
    Bosses don't do that
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    Quote Originally posted by Lord Sidious View Post
    Bosses don't do that
    You think he was a boss already at that point in time?

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    Quote Originally posted by KeepTrying View Post
    Why didn't Hitler write down his own thoughts?
    Good question! I’ve no idea! I can only surmise that, based on his future performances as a highly skilled and practised orator, he was one of those people who found it much easier to express his passions and convictions through speech rather than the written word.

    His close friend, August Kubizek, described in his book “The Young Hitler I Knew” that Hitler would use him as a sounding board, holding forth for hours about his ideas and schemes - it seemed he would give speeches to anyone who’d listen! Several of his fellow residents at the Meldemannstrasse dormitory in Vienna where Hitler lived for three years from 1910 published their memories of him discussing politics, giving long, opinionated speeches about the events of the time.

    His form of fascism was all about energy action, passion, power and will - and the best way to deliver those is through speech. As a narcissist, he was also self-obsessed and righteous, believing he had been chosen to fulfil a mission.
    Maybe this quotation from Main Kampf would throw some light on why he preferred to dedicate his energy towards the spoken word, seeing the possibiltles of captivating and manipulating the masses:

    “I know that men are won over less by the written than by the spoken word, that every great movement on this earth owes its growth to orators and not to great writers.”

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    Quote Originally posted by KeepTrying View Post
    You think he was a boss already at that point in time?
    He was the head of the NSDAP and the SS had already been formed 3 years earlier.
    Maybe you didn't know, his nickname in the SS was ''the boss''................

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    His form of fascism was all about energy action, passion, power and will - and the best way to deliver those is through speech.
    The NSDAP weren't fascists, that is Mussolini and his blackshirts.
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    In case anyone is interested, here is "the only existing recording of Hitler's normal voice".

    The conversation was secretly recorded in Finland.


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    Quote Originally posted by Wind View Post
    In case anyone is interested, here is "the only existing recording of Hitler's normal voice".

    The conversation was secretly recorded in Finland.

    Recorded in a railway car, hence the terrible audio
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    Quote Originally posted by Wind View Post
    Can anyone explain to me what is meant by the "About Me" page on that YouTuber's channel (AlbusPercyDumbledore)?

    I upload things of historical interest, and retarded bits and bobs (less so recently).

    AlbusPercyDumbledore
    "Retarded"?

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    Quote Originally posted by KeepTrying View Post
    Can anyone explain to me what is meant by the "About Me" page on that YouTuber's channel (AlbusPercyDumbledore)?



    "Retarded"?
    Why would you ask Costco about Burgerking?
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    Quote Originally posted by Lord Sidious View Post
    Why would you ask Costco about Burgerking?
    I don't know what you're talking about.

    Care to explain?

    (Omitting sarcasm or irony, please.)

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    Quote Originally posted by KeepTrying View Post
    I don't know what you're talking about.

    Care to explain?

    (Omitting sarcasm or irony, please.)
    Nope, I like people to think for themselves.
    If you wanna progress, reading between the lines is a necessary skill
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    Quote Originally posted by Lord Sidious View Post
    Nope, I like people to think for themselves.
    If you wanna progress, reading between the lines is a necessary skill
    What you call "reading between the lines,'' I would call either obfuscation, or avoidance.

    Either way, there is no further purpose for the public reading this (the only thing that mattters) in this exchange.

    Do you have anything substantive to add to this discussion at this point in time?

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    Quote Originally posted by KeepTrying View Post
    What you call "reading between the lines,'' I would call either obfuscation, or avoidance.

    Either way, there is no further purpose for the public reading this (the only thing that mattters) in this exchange.

    Do you have anything substantive to add to this discussion at this point in time?
    I don't do meals on a plate for readers.
    If that is what you want, you will go hungry.
    Ní siocháin go saoirse

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    Quote Originally posted by Lord Sidious View Post
    Recorded in a railway car, hence the terrible audio

    I'd say the audio is pretty good, considering it was recorded in 1942.

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    Quote Originally posted by Wind View Post
    I'd say the audio is pretty good, considering it was recorded in 1942.
    Not as clear as some recordings of the time because it was done in secret
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    Quote Originally posted by Lord Sidious View Post
    I don't do meals on a plate for readers.
    If that is what you want, you will go hungry.

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