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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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2. Why does the author say that Hitler never has any real personal contacts?
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3. What most extraordinary comment on human evolution, in this age of science and progress, can be made?
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4. What is the final enigma? What reasons seem to offer partial explanations of this?
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参考译文
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【作品简介】
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《希特勒之谜》，作者斯蒂芬·H．罗伯茨，载于1938年2月出版的《哈珀杂志》，见于253、254页。
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【作者简介】
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有人描写二十世纪三十年代的德国人是“生活在‘神话’中”。斯蒂芬·H．罗伯茨的《希特勒之谜》，尝试揭开这个“神话”的内幕。罗伯茨博士是澳大利亚人，悉尼大学的现代历史学教授，被认为是国际关系方面的权威。在二战中，他决心尽可能彻底地调查纳粹德国政权的真相。他去了德国，并得到了纳粹德国外交部及外交部部长里宾特洛甫给予的特权。罗伯茨充分利用了这一特权，用十六个月的时间彻底梳理这个国家的现状、搜集资料。利用这些资料，他写出了《希特勒建造的帝国》这本书，不久即出版。本文就选自这本书。
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