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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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old despots, aged absolute rulers, tyrants, oppressors.
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enigma, riddle, puzzling thing.
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Deutschland erwache! Germany, awake!
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national narcotic, a drug which influences the whole nation, which stimulates the whole nation.
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Mythus of the German people, myth of the German people; a mythical person.
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the Crusader who has captured the Holy City . A crusader was a person who took part in the Crusade, the Christian expedition in the Middle Ages to recover the Holy Land, Palestine, from the Mohammedans. Hitler is here depicted as the Crusader who has succeeded in taking back the Holy City of Jerusalem, the city where Jesus Christ was born in.
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Germania, Germany,
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mystical, spiritually allegorical.
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Der Führer-Gott, the Leader-God.
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Questions
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1. What is the strange thing about Hitler? Why is he on firm ground when he is making a speech?
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