Inventing Hitler…

I get the impression that people are increasingly representing Hitler as a dictator given to raging uncontrollably and biting the rug even on slight pretexts. This seems to me a false and dangerous course. If the human features are going to be missing from the portrait of Hitler, if his persuasiveness, his engaging characteristics, and even the Austrian charm he could trot out, are left out of the reckoning, no faithful picture of him will be achieved.

Albert Speer, Spandau: The Secret Diaries, 1976.