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CHAPTER 10. GOD – THE NOBODY EVERYBODY KNOWS
The marriage was arranged after he decided to commit suicide, because he had been harassed by
this woman continually: ”Why don’t you get married to me?” and he was refusing. He lived like a
monk, absolutely alone in his cell, and he was worried that once he got married then it would be
difficult to live alone, this woman would force her way into his room. So he went on postponing.
When he decided finally, Berlin was falling and the bombs were falling on the street outside the
house; he could hear the bombs exploding from his cell. He immediately asked for a priest to be
called so that the marriage could be arranged. Marriage for what? – to commit suicide together.
Perhaps most people do the same, not knowingly. Perhaps their three hours are very long; and the
longer they are, the more tedious.
A priest was somehow brought in. He quickly did the marriage ceremony, and after the ceremony
was over they drank poison and killed themselves. His order was that petrol should be poured over
them and they should be burned completely; not even a trace should be found – and that’s how it
was done.
Adolf Hitler used to wake up every morning before sunrise. All monks are not so religious. I know
monks are supposed to get up before sunrise – but human beings are human beings. Adolf Hitler
was made of a different mettle. Even in winter he would get up before sunrise, and the whole year
round he would take a cold shower after getting up – the first thing, a cold shower. A very disciplined
monk... he would go to sleep exactly at nine at night. He was not interested in anything that you can
call bad. He neither played cards nor smoked cigarettes. His food was very simple, very frugal and
he never drank wine – no alcoholic beverages.
When Germany took over France, all his generals wanted him to come to the most beautiful city
in the world, but he was not interested. Beauty was not a concern in his mind at all; but because
everybody was asking him, and they had done a great job of conquering France, he went there. But
he stayed only twenty-four hours in his hotel room and did not go to see Paris.
You say God did not create Adolf Hitler in His own image. Why? Because he killed so many people?
But every day God is killing millions of people – who else is killing them? Adolf Hitler was simply
sharing a little bit of God’s job. People have to be killed, everybody has to die; so what is wrong in it
if Adolf Hitler shares a little work, takes a little burden off God?
And he did perfectly well, far better than God himself Sometimes it happens, the carbon copy comes
out clearer than the original. He invented gas chambers, the most non-violent method of killing man;
but you cannot call it killing – killing is too cruel. In a gas chamber the person never comes to know
when he is and when he is not. It is so quick: just a switch put on and there is only smoke – you can
call it holy smoke! He did his job perfectly.
In fact Hitler had this belief, this fanatic idea that he had been sent by God to destroy all that was
not right, all that was hindering the growth of the superman on the earth. He was doing everything
in good faith.
You cannot suspect his faith, his intention, because if he had been a little bit suspicious it would
have been impossible to do what he did, killing millions of people. It needs tremendous faith, fanatic,
From Ignorance to Innocence 125 Osho