Michael Jackson believed Adolf Hitler was a “genius” and had believed he could heal the homicidal Nazi dictator of his infamous evil in just one hour.

The late King of Pop, who died in June, made the amazing claims to his friend Rabbi Shmuley Boteach after allowing his thoughts to be recorded on tape, revealing his innermost thoughts from the grave.

“Hitler was a genius orator. To make that many people turn and change and hate, he had to be a showman and he was,” MJ told the Jewish holy man, an Oxford University professor for more than 11 years.

“You believe that if you had an hour with Hitler you could somehow touch something inside of him?” Shmuley asked.

To which the late singer replies: “Absolutely. I know I could. You have to help them, give them therapy, teach them that somewhere, something in their life went wrong.”

The interviews have been published in a new book – The Michael Jackson Tapes - revealing a range of startling revelations from the “Thriller” hitmaker, including his insistence that children are only evil because they had been neglected by their parents.

Shmuley taped more than 30 hours of interviews with Jackson.