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

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86 DER FUEHRERinsurrection. A group of these sailors spoke <strong>to</strong> Hitler. It would havebeen his duty <strong>to</strong> report them — later he was not squeamish in thisrespect. Why he neglected <strong>to</strong> do so in Pasewalk is not quite clear; hehimself said: 'I didn't denounce them, for even then I felt that thecollapse was near.' He did not write this unusual admission in MeinKampf; it occurred in his defense plea in the 1924 trial. Lost in theworld, reduced <strong>to</strong> inactivity, he looked on at the death of the war whichhad been his fatherland.

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