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Der Fuehrer - Hitler's Rise to Power (1944) - Heiden

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THE ARMED INTELLECTUALS 35poraries and many of his own supporters saw him in his beginnings; andthe picture is basically true. As a human figure, lamentable; as apolitical mind, one of the most tremendous phenomena of all worldhis<strong>to</strong>ry — this is a contradiction which occurs in every man of genius,from the stuttering Moses <strong>to</strong> Bonaparte, the strange, un-glamorousartillery captain; but few of those his<strong>to</strong>ric figures united so manycontradictions, such lack of distinction, and such superhuman strength.

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