Abstract
This article is basically aimed at evaluating Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers' Party’s (NSDAP) popularity outside Germany. The study will throw light on the growth and influence of the ‘Hitler myth’ as being one of the most important reasons for the large-scale acceptance and attachment people felt towards ‘the Fuhrer’.In the conditions prevalent in Germany during the last years of the Weimar Republic, in which the state, run by a ‘functional’ impersonal leadership was becoming totally discredited,the only way to salvation that appeared possible was in a leader who had personal charisma and strengthand who was prepared to take full responsibility. The powerful leader would sweep away all the fatuousbureaucrats as well as the wretched systemover which they presided. Hitler fit into the long-standingquest of the German people for a ‘heroic leader’. The conditions in Germany were ripefor Hitler to build a leadership cult around himself. With each success of the Nazi movement, the veneration for Hitler grew.