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。
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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。