I'm not sure how much I buy into this idea of the Hitler Myth. While it does make sense that he was a very charismatic individual who managed to convince the German public that the Nazi party and its ideals, I'm still not sure how much of that actually had to do with this idea of him as a person who was destined for "greatness". I feel like a lot of this has to do with his reputation after his death. I remember in class, we talked about how many politicians (including American presidents) have this mythical ideal attached to their time in history, but in part due to the fact that the discussion ended up naming pretty much every major president of the last 100 years (and could've easily gone beyond that) I'm left wondering how much of the myth is created after they've left their office. Hitler definitely needed, and achieved, massive amounts of popular support among the German people. That said, I feel like Hitler is in a lot of ways an example of someone who managed to be in the right spot at the right time. He was definitely somewhat of a revolutionary before his rise to power and WW2, but was essentially passed off as being yet another person in a society that was crying out for some sort of leadership, and his radical beliefs were just viewed as that. Still, when I read everything I do about the period under Nazi Germany, I'm left feeling like his mythical persona is being blown up for the sake of explaining why someone was able to lead a country to pursue genocide.