Ben Wilson

Listen to this speech that Hitler gives.

I just think this is, again, his rhetoric is so masterful.

Here's what he says, quote, "'Whoever does not want to come into the common camp, stay away.

But whoever intends to come, I say one thing to him.

The quarrel has now come to an end.'"

Do not come to me with excuses.

Do not say to me, I can do everything you ask except this and not that.

And these others are guilty of such wrongs.

No, he who knows that he's free from all guilt, let him pick up the first stone and then, friend, have courage and hurl it at me.

For I too have failed, as every one of us has.

No one has the right to strike his chest and cry out, he is the guilty party and I am pure as an angel.

Whoever thinks like this bears the greatest guilt, for he is conceited and unjust at the same time.

That's so smart for him to say, because look, Hitler has, he stepped away from politics completely in his 13 months in Landsberg prison.

He actually hasn't been a part of these internecine strifes at all.

So by saying that he himself is guilty, which everyone knows is not true, he's making himself like a scapegoat, like a sacrificial lamb.

Then he's saying, look, I'm with you guys.

Okay.

I made mistakes.

I have accused others in the past.

No one has any ground on which to stand to say, I'm an angel.