Khalid Elhassan
M.A. Literature & History, University of Edinburgh (2016) , PhD Economics & History, Free University of Berlin

爱丁堡大学文学与历史学硕士（2016），柏林自由大学经济学与历史学博士。

Hitler was the greater orator. By a long shot. He was probably one of the best orators in history.

希特勒是比丘吉尔更伟大的演说家，而且遥遥领先。他可能是历史上最好的演说家之一。


Few could whip a crowd into an ecstatic frenzy as well as Hitler could.

很少有人能像希特勒那样煽动群众，使其热情高涨、陷入狂热的情绪之中。


And the mark of his successful oratory is that the substance of what he was saying, when rationally examined, was clearly bunk to an obxtive observer. But Hitler was a genius in his ability to mesmerize with words and the delivery thereof, in order to get otherwise rational and intelligent people to abandon reason and logic.

而他的演说之所以这么成功，其中一个重要的标志是，他所说的实质内容在经过理性审视后，对一个客观的观察者来说，显然是胡说八道。
但希特勒是个天才，他有能力用语言及其表达方式来迷惑人，以使原本理性和聪明的人放弃理性和逻辑。


In other words, Hitler mastered the basic trick of demagoguery: focus your appeal on emotion, rather than logic.

换句话说，希特勒掌握了煽动人群的基本技巧：把你对人们的呼吁集中在情感上，而不是逻辑上。


Churchill’s gift was literary and cerebral. He was a great writer - one of the best prose writers in the history of the English language - who deservedly won a Nobel Prize in literature. And his speeches, because of his literary gifts, were more memorable and profound than Hitler’s. But while Churchill could give a good speech, he was a rational orator who based his speeches on logical progression. His appeal was more to reason, rather than emotion and passion. Not being a demagogue, he could not capture and work a crowd at any level close to Hitler’s oratorical ability.

丘吉尔的天赋是文学和理智。他是一位伟大的作家——英语文学史上最好的散文家之一——他当之无愧地获得了诺贝尔文学奖。
而且，由于他的文学天赋，他的演讲比希特勒的更令人难忘和深刻。
丘吉尔是一个理性的演说家，他的演讲更多是建立在逻辑递进的基础上的。
尽管丘吉尔的演讲很好，但他对人群的呼吁更多的是出于理智，而非感情和激情。
他不是一个煽动者，在调动人群情绪和抓住人们的心方面，丘吉尔的演说能力远远无法与希特勒相比。