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But the final enigma remains. Granting that Hitler is a dreamer, a creature of emotion, a man of ordinary mental caliber, a gripping orator, a simple-living Führer with an almost divine sense of his mission—how did such a man rise to power and consolidate the nation in his first four years of rule? Many reasons seem to offer partial explanations of this. He was the most popular orator during a time of political chaos and national depression; his general philosophy about Deutschland erwache! fitted in with the psychology of the nation, so that his movement became a national narcotic; he had marvelous subordinates and, with them, built up the best Party organization; his simplest mentality enabled him to carry through a complex revolution before which a mind more clearly analytical of the consequences would have quailed; and finally he became the Mythus of the German people. The man was merged in the myth, and it became his task to think and act in terms of that myth, so much so that any power in the land which might supplant his Party would probably have to keep him as nominal Führer . The Hitler myth is the dominating fact in German life to-day. Indeed, he sees himself no longer as a person but as the Crusader who has captured the Holy City—the embodiment of a nation—the living and inspired voice of Germania—Der Führer in the most mystical sense of that word—and must one ultimately add
:Der Führer-Gott ?
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Notes
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Adolf Hitler （1889-1945）, dictator of Germany.
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in his interviews, when he meets persons face to face, either for a conference or for making statements to newspaper reporters.
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punctilious, attentive to petty formality, to nice points of ceremony.
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quixotism, enthusiastic vision, utterly disregarding material interests in comparison with honor or devotion.
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the standards, the flags of the various units of his army.
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tiny tots, small children.
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horny hands, due to hard labor with their hands.
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blots out, removes, eliminates, wipes out of the picture.
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Führer, the title given to Hitler. The word means “leader.”
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Bruckner, Hitler’s personal protector.
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“suicide-brigade,” so-called because they are ready to die in defense of Hitler.
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Mercedès car, Mercedès being the make of automobile that Hitler rides about in.
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S. S. men, the Schutz Staffel troops, the most select of the Sturm Abteilung （S. A.） troops of Germany. The Sturm Abteilung are the Storm Troops, the brown shirts; the Schutz Staffel, companies of the guard, the black shirts, are the specially-chosen elite.
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godhead, being a god.
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batten, revel in, feed gluttonously on （often implying morbid taste）;grow fat.
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his diet, the food that he eats.
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his celibacy, his not being married. Hitler is still unmarried.
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adulation, base flattery.
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pathological, diseased, abnormal.
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thrice-distilled, not the frank views of honest men, but the views which have been carefully prepared and checked over so as to avoid hurting the feelings of Hitler. In other words, Hitler does not get the honest opinion of frank men; he hears only what his followers think he enjoys hearing.
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Nazis, National Sozialisten, the National Socialists, the ruling political party of Germany.
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a private line, a telephone line connecting Hitler directly with God, a line which no one else can use. This is said in fun, of course.
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whimsy, whim, sudden fancy, caprice.
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