““The man with the Charlie Chaplin mustache, who had been a down-and-out tramp in Vienna in his youth, an unknown soldier of World War I, a derelict in Munich in the first grim postwar days, the somewhat comical leader of the Beer Hall Putsch, this spellbinder who was not even German but Austrian, and who was only forty-three years old, had just been administered the oath as Chancellor of the German Reich.””
![“Within the Nazi Party, the beginnings of a personality cult around Hitler go back to the year before the [Munich] putsch... Outside these small groups of fanatical Bavarian Nazis, Hitler's image and reputation at this time - so far as the wider German public took any notice of him at all - was…” quote by Ian Kershaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/105/ian-kershaw-35887_capable_within-the-nazi-party-the-beginnings-of_2259725.jpg)
![“[Adolf Hitler] was very close-mouthed, he was the most private individual I have ever seen, very secretive.” quote by Gretl Braun](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/85f/gretl-braun-9500_individual_adolf-hitler-was-very-close-mouthed-he-w_3161407.jpg)
