Michael Jackson called Adolf Hitler a genius orator, and praised the German dictator's showmanship in an extended interview conducted with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach that will be published in a forthcoming book, The Michael Jackson Tapes: A Tragic Icon Reveals His Soul in Intimate Conversation.

“Hitler was a genius orator; to make that many people turn and change and hate, he had to be a showman and he was,” Jackson told Boteach.

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