Fascinating excerpts! Curiously enough, Hitler did manage to forge an extremely determined nation by the late 30's, and his armed forces showed extraordinary initiative and resolution on the battlefield, thoroughly outfighting their opponents most of the time in the early years. (It has to be said that the British showed equal resolution, but it took them a little longer to modernize their tactical ideas to match the Wermacht). It's a pity that all that "spirit" and will that Hitler rhapsodizes about was harnessed toward such destructive and misguided purposes...but he was a very disturbed individual.

Had the Nazis won, generations since would no doubt be eulogizing their heroism to the skies, and their crimes would have been sanitized neatly out of the history books. Such things have happened before.

- LH