Say Hitler was early for a meeting, back in the first years when he had just come to power. He'd stroll around a building where a stage was set up. And he'd talk to people. Like really talk to them, person-to-person. A soldier, a fellow veteran of WWI. A carpenter. He'd have animated talks with them, and Speer was amazed by this because many of the top brass of German high society were vain, arrogant, high and mighty figures. Not Hitler. In a restaurant, he'd compliment the chef on a vegetarian dish. Delighted to find out the man who prepared his food was a fellow Austrian. Things like that.