Adolf Hitler was no peasant. He was well read and well spoken, and anyone who listens to his speeches can hear this. He seemed to have had a phenomenal memory. In most Western documentaries, we see him only at the end of his long speeches, when he puts in an rhetorical flourish to shout and wave his arms, as was customary in all the old speech making days before microphones could amplify the sound. It was dramatic to end so. But to the modern sensibility, it looks and sounds half insane, like angry druggies shouting in the night in the ghetto streets.
He spoke both High German and could switch into Austrian dialect with his staff, especially with the women, and he played the gentleman that most men are bred to be in old Austria.
Where he really was educated, possibly privately, we don’t know, but a peasant? Ha!
