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that he found very useful: the ability to reduce
complicated matters to the simplest terms in his
reports to Hitler—a knack that the Führer warmly
appreciated.
Goebbels, who drew strength from his own
speeches, never ceasing to be fascinated by them
even after practically everybody had ceased to
believe what he said, and who from his safe shelter
issued fiery orations exhorting the populace of
Berlin to fight to the last man; Göring, who,
according to what one hears, could never after 1940
be shaken in his belief that Germany had
decisively won the war, and who in this belief allowed
the Luftwaffe rapidly to deteriorate; Ribbentrop,
with his stupid conceit and narrow outlook—all
these belonged to the inner circle of those near
Hitler at the last. Göring seems, however, to have
ceased to have any influence.
And then there was Heinrich Himmler. Of
him, one can only remark that he appears to have
been quite as terrified of Hitler as Hitler was of
him. The intimate circle around Hitler directed
all their plottings specifically against the head of
the Gestapo. As a result he was sent to the front;
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