10 Compelling Arguments That Lord Voldemort Was Based On Adolf Hitler
2. A Way With Words
They were able to rally people to their causes so effectively because both Hitler and Voldemort undeniably had a way with words. Tom Riddle, whilst a troubled child, was terribly manipulative, and used a handsome mask of quiet inquisitiveness to extract the information he needed to get his evil plot started. Poor old Professor Slughorn was just one of many victims of Riddles charm, unintentionally arming him with information on how to create a horcrux and setting him on the path to the immortality he so desperately craved. Hitlers power of speech was less effective in smaller groups it was his rousing speeches that allowed him to manipulate the masses. This started within the walls of his own party headquarters as he vied for leadership of the Nazis (much in the same way that Voldemort began to put together his Death Eaters at school) and ended in him addressing audiences in the hundreds of thousands. Hitler used tactics such as referring to the German people as a superior group and never as individuals, and he often used the either or' dilemma, asking people to accept that certain evils must be done as the alternative would be their own destruction. After drumming home the differences between the so-called master race and the sub-humans who were their enemy, the bulk of the German people, rational as they might have been otherwise, were happy to go along for the ride.
