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Part One: Julius Streicher: The Other Hitler

Behind the Bastards

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Stryker's Pros and Cons

CNN's John Sutter says the Nazi leader had a knack for speaking in front of large crowds. He felt there was an almost spiritual presence inside him that taught him how to do it, he said. But one problematic aspect is when he started rants about Jewish people and his audience didn't laugh at them, Sutter writes. "I have learned to be silent at times when my German heart gladly would have spoken," Hitler told Stryker after being caught making anti-Semitic jokes.

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