Michael Jackson praised the showmanship of Adolph Hitler — describing him in a bombshell taped interview as a “genius.”
Jacko was also convinced he could have got rid of the Fuhrer’s evil. His amazing claims were made to a rabbi in a sensational series of recorded conversations between the two friends.
Jacko told close pal Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: “Hitler was a genius orator. “To make that many people turn and change and hate, he had to be a showman and he was.”
The rabbi put it to the singer, who died of heart failure in June aged 50: “You believe that if you had an hour with Hitler you could somehow touch something inside of him?”
Jackson declared: “Absolutely. I know I could.” He insisted nobody was all evil, explaining:
“You have to help them, give them therapy, teach them that somewhere, something in their life went wrong.”
In the same series of interviews, Jackson also slammed fellow pop icon Madonna.
“Is there a lot of jealousy in your profession?” “Absolutely,” Jackson answers, “and ‘M’ is one of them. Madonna.”