Short and bitter

In 1923, a German Professor observed that Hitler was a “fantasizing hysterical romanticism, a brutal core of will.” Another commentator noted that Hitler was “a lunatic raging with frenzy.” A third worried that if Hitler’s “messiah complex runs away with him he will ruin us all.”

Circumstances and charisma facilitated Hitler’s rise to power. This is the short and bitter summary of a world-wide tragedy. Are the soundings of ‘hope and change’ America’s tocsin to impending disaster?