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@Oliver Schick
Re: the 'leader' question--there are many such myths about Hitler in circulation, but the reality was rather different. Lots of people are desperate to attribute some sort of overwhelming personal quality to Hitler, no doubt out of a desire to explain and in some cases justify his rise to power. However, he was simply a political hasardeur who employed brutality and other dishonourable means.
'Narrator'--no doubt you mean 'rhetor' or 'orator'. It's very easy to evoke this impression if all that you do is appeal to your audience's baser instincts. He was loud, he was intense, he performed within highly stylised settings, but a great orator he was not.
'Con'--actually, you'll find that Hitler set out his entire political programme in "Mein Kampf" long before the Machtergreifung. The trouble is that people either didn't read this or didn't take it seriously. In either case, they failed to realise how dangerous it would be to give any kind of prominence to a dim-witted, hate-filled neurotic full of reprehensible, uneducated, late 19th century racist bullshit. While he of course went on to simply violate international law willy-nilly and any kind of agreement with him wasn't worth the paper it was written on, much of it had long been in the public domain, had people only paid attention, which makes what happened all the more tragic. I'll give you 'con' as far as certain political assassinations are concerned, such as those of the SA leadership in the 'Night of the Long Knives'.