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fact, to the future of the whole world. In his own
manner he touched on the importance of creating
a Hitler legend—something that might very soon
be launched, and that would play the same part
after the fall of the Third Reich that the “stab in
the back” played after the Peace of Versailles.
Everything would depend, Himmler said, on how
the Allies treated Germany. If the Allied nations
meant to crush the German people, then Hitler
would come to be regarded as the greatest of their
heroes. It would be said that not only had Adolf
Hitler been able to solve their internal problems:
he had also raised them out of the “state of
degradation” in which they had found themselves after
the Peace of Versailles, in order finally to die the
death of a hero at the head of his people, on the
barricades of Berlin.
If I may be permitted to digress for a moment, I
must say here that everything I have experienced
and learned has firmly convinced me that the myth
of Hitler’s death while fighting on the barricades
of his capital must be destroyed once for all, and
as soon as possible. Adolf Hitler in the spring of
1945 was a mentally and physically sick man. A
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