Three essential, historically tested elements go to compose a mass leader whether he becomes a Mahatma like Gandhiji or a dictator like Hitler. There is a mass of ideas which the nation accepts and sees glory in its implementation. In the case of Hitler it was his claim of Germans being the purest Aryans who should dominate the world for one hundred years. There is the second element, a leader of implementing it and it was Hitler. There had to be the might to capture power and there was the powerful German army.

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