... Gary [P.252] To get people to believe that he had a superhuman aura - the aura described by the Greeks as 'charisma' - Hitler also used childish staring tricks, such as looking at the people he was talking to without blinking, and various other basic tricks. Attributions of charisma are especially likely by people who have a feeling of inadequacy, guilt, fear and alienation, and who share beliefs and fantasies that will serve as the basis for emotional and rational appeals by the leader Gary [P.247]. It seems that no one is born charismatic, but there are plenty of ways to acquire an aura if you want to. Adolf Hitler or the incarnation of absolute evil; this is how future generations will remember the all-powerful Fuehrer of the criminal Third Reich. Under his hypnotic gaze, humanity crossed a threshold from which one could see the abyss. The image of Hitler as ...

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