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Completely different Hitler to the one we see on documentaries.
But, If those kids were Jewish or any other non-white Aryan, it would have been a different sight.
Ian Kershaw focused on the popular appeal of the Nazi dictator in The "Hitler Myth". Arguing that "the sources of Hitler's appeal must be sought ... in those who adored him, rather than in the leader himself," Kershaw shows how Hitler's public image welded together antagonistic forces within the Nazi state, mobilized the nation for war, and contributed to the ethos that animated systematic and genocidal violence.
Responding to historians who maintain that Hitler's personality or ideological fixations accounted for his broad acceptance, Kershaw argues that, in the early 1930s, a sizable plurality of Germans hungered for an omnipotent Führer to stand above the political disharmonies of the Weimar state. Later, foreign policy and military victories attracted many more to the Hitler legend. However, victories were the price for popularity; and Hitler became more and more bloodthirsty as both his image and regime foundered under the blows of the Allied powers. The Hitler myth, then--a cultural phenomenon the Reich Minister Joseph Goebbels claimed as his greatest propaganda triumph--became a fundamental cause for the collapse of the Nazi State.
Adolph Hitler was, after all, a creation of the film century. His public image was born with Leni Riefenstahls documentary Triumph of the Will (1933) in which he arrived by plane descending from the clouds like a God to preside in heroic low-angled shots over the magnificently orchestrated Nuremberg rally of 1933 with its images of adulating crowds, traditional folk costumes, athletic prowess, golden youth and precisely organized patterns of humanity.