"I have tried for a long time to find words to express what the Führer is to me. Words expressing one’s deepest feelings can sound so thin and empty. The Führer towers so high that words cannot reach him. To me and all other honest Germans, he has become fate itself. Can a man put his fate in words? I do not think it possible. All I can say is about what the Führer means to me is this: I want to love him because he is Germany."
— Erich F., Münster
This material comes from a quite remarkable book that can only be compared to religious devotional literature. The editor wrote to a range of people asking them to say what Adolf Hitler meant to them. The result is language one would ordinarily apply to God.
Source: Das ist der Sieg! Briefe des Glaubens in Aufbruch und Krieg
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