(January 22, 2017 at 9:33 am)Tazzycorn Wrote: I wouldn't be sure about that. The man who wrote Mein Kampf was clearly cookoo for coco pops, and that was 1924.
As compared to his time - no, he wasn't. There were many sharing his thoughts. Not only in Germany, but in the whole world. Also "Mein Kampf" is quite an elaborate piece of propaganda. Hitler designed and reinvented his own biography to suit the overall climate of the time and the region. That certainly wasn't the work of a mad man but a calculated piece of labor.
Same for the first years of his reign. Since he already had plans for invasion he didn't care about debt. The spoils of war would take care of that. He only lost touch with reality in the last two years.