There is envy, ambition, loyalty and whatever else, but the one human emotion, the most powerful one by a mile, is fear. If you can control just this much ( showing the top part of his little finger to her) of fear in others, you rule the world. Trust me , kid, I know what I am talking about, I really do."
He used fear most effectively to control a whole nation, and even the rulers of that nation feared him and never dared to cross him. He was in effect the last authority in East Germany, over the ruler Honecker even, on whom he had a secret dossier.
And he spread this fear with rumour... he happily let people believe that every moment of their lives were watched over, when in fact that was a gross exaggeration. However, just by occasional very public measures, such as some dawn raids and arrests, the fear the spread lasted for 40 years.
There are many people like him in history, controlling others by fear.
Perhaps we could spend a while analysing together how one other man, Mohammed, followed the same path to power and control. There are striking similarities, but also differences.