Adolf Hitler: Genius, or Madman?

Any man who can leave one country, walk into another, shout his views a lot and become the leader of a political party, is no idiot. I'm not including Arnold Scwarzenegger in that because he got to be governor by being a well loved celebrity. Hitler was literally a nobody, who turned up at a National Socialist meeting in a beer hall, and started screaming his views and ideas at everyone and they agreed basically. Then he got jailed, wrote a book that convinced everyone that Jews and the surrounding nations that enforced the reparations, and occupied the Rhineland were the causes of Germany's problems (THAT part was true, but if someone hadn't killed Duke Franz Ferdinand, and then everyone deciding to back up everyone else until the Kaiser basically said, 'shut up and fight!' then none of that would have happened anyway would it?)

If someone ever asks me 'do you think i could do that?' i tell them:

"If an Austrian street artist can walk into war torn Germany, shout his mouth off a lot, and become a leader of men, and then take that so far as to make Germany a superpower again within 15 years, then anyone has a good shot at anything"

His time in prison, writing Mein Kampf, and the hypnotic passion he used for his public image where all contributing factors to him winning the people over, and he then made sure that once he was in power that he would never get out without being killed, and that's when the genocide movement started.

Thomas Edison was a genius, Albert Einstein was a genius, Leonardo Divinci was a genius. Were guys like Hitler and Stalin geniuses? Depends on your definition of genius i guess. I wouldn't say they were, because i don't consider ruthlessness and manipulation to be a measure of intelligence. I'd catagorise them as master manipulators, whose primary means of dealing with a problem is to eradicate anyone invaluable who is aware of it, or in other words, murderous tyrants.