Leadership Skills Of Adolf Hitler

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Adolf Hitler had a variety of leadership skills and techniques affecting the actions he took, and ultimately shaping his legacy. Successful leaders have leadership skills to guide and direct their followers, Adolf Hitler had a diverse and significant amount of these skills, which he used to direct his people into war in the early 1900’s. The specific skills that Hitler possessed, negative and positive impacted his legacy and affecting the world around us. The following essay will contain and analyze the skills required to be a leader, mentioning the negative and positive effects of his legacy and evaluating them, and including how some of his leadership skills affects the world around us.

The definition of leadership is the act of directing,
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Oratory skills are the primary reasons on how people become leaders; Hitler had exceptional oratory skills, which is the main reason why he was elected chancellor in January 30th 1933. Hitler used his oratory skills, gaining votes to rise to power; he expressed his crucial and excellent oratory skills in public speeches, courtrooms and conferences. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPJ_1Ct1jpk , This video shows at 1:41 Hitler’s significant oratory skills cause crowds to cheer and celebrate loudly, and be influenced by Hitler’s opinions, reinforced by Hitler’s exquisite public speaking skills. In the previous example Hitler used oratory skills to gain a crowds support, this support helps Hitler rise to power as public support helps his political …show more content…
Hitler’s legacy, has accomplished to forever more separate the relationships between certain continental cultures, this impact shows in todays society in a variety of places. Two cultures separated due to Hitler’s legacy would be Russia and America, this separation/disaffiliation is expressed and exposed in video games/ television series/ movies, an example would be the Call of Duty- Modern Warfare franchise where Russia and America have a constant rivalry. Hitler’s actions have caused his legacy to separate cultures i.e. America and Russia; this negative impact will continuously bother these two cultures from being united and

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