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growing up in South Germany whose name was
to become known throughout the world. He
came of a simple middle-class family, and his
father had been tutor to one of the princes of the
Bavarian royal house. During the Great War the
boy enlisted in the Bavarian Guards and attained
the rank of sergeant major at the age of sixteen.
When the war ended he returned home and joined
the Nazi movement at its very inception.
“Those were glorious days,” said Himmler.
(He had been talking of his own life.) “We
members of the movement were in constant danger
of our lives, but we were not afraid. Adolf Hitler
led us and held us together. They were the most
wonderful years of my life. Then I could fight
for what I regarded as Germany’s rebirth.” He
ended by saying that, after all, the movement had
produced real benefits, particularly in respect to
social legislation. He failed to make any mention
of the millions of Jews who had been murdered
while “the movement” was in power. During this
conversation I was also struck by the incongruity
of a supreme commander of the German home
army in the last phase of World War II with no
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