Did Hitler himself think of his speeches or did he get help from other Nazis?
~His speeches often lasted for four to six hours. They were not memorized. He fed off his audiences and they fed off him. He generally had points he knew he was going to cover, but how he covered them depended on how the crowd was responding to him. Often, he ad-libbed. His ideas, on the other hand, were not his. If one examines his policies against the record, one quickly learns that Hitler had no new, novel or unique ideas in politics, philosophy or bigotry. His government was based on the Italian, Spanish and USSR models. His anti-Semitism (and his justification for it) was based on his Catholic upbringing and the pamphlets he read as a teenager in Vienna (notably the works of Richard Wagner, Guido von List and Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels. Later, he added ideas gleaned from Henry Ford, the New York Times (news articles as well as editorials), Anton Drexler, Alfred Rosenberg, HS Chamberlain and a host of others. Philosophically, he was bankrupt and espoused a Cliff’s Notes Readers Diges
