What was 'Hitler'?

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I know Hitler and WWII have been beaten to death but bear with me for a second.

What was 'Hitler'?

When you read about his personal life, it's rather simple and ordinary. According to friends, he was rather boring, repetitive, spoke too long about the same topics, had bad breath and general traits of any person. He changed his opinions quite often (particularly around religion) and you get the sense he had no uniform ideology when reading Speer. When you read what Goebbels and Himmler thought of him, you get the sense of a false love or admiring of 'Hitler'. As though he was a vice or catalyst to achieve their own ends. Goebbels explicitly does this in his diary entries when deriding Hitler for his criticisms of socialism to then saying "I love him" the next after a meeting.

Is that what Hitler was? A vice?

Certainly his speeches were well made, I doubt anyone could deny that but is there anything interesting about him beyond that? He's almost entirely blank in facial expression, not in a sense of withholding much but in a sense of not withholding anything.

Can this be what categorises Nazism as a farce?

It seems to me Hitler was a sort of spiritual figure that was necessary for the cultural firment of the time. He was the glass into which others poured their ideas.

What do you think?