Hitler`s war and The war Path by David Irving


...but General Alfred Jodl, his closest strategic adviser, also wrote
in his Nuremberg cell on March 10 1946:

"Then however I ask myself, did you ever really know this man at whose
side you led such a thorny and ascetic existence? Did he perhaps just
trifle with your idealism too, abusing it for dark purposes which he kept
hidden deep within himself? Dare you claim to know a man, if he has not
opened up the deepest recesses of his heart to you – in sorrow as well as
in ecstasy? To this very day I do not know what he thought or knew or
really wanted. I only knew my own thoughts and suspicions. And if, now
that the shrouds fall away from a sculpture we fondly hoped would be a
work of art, only to reveal nothing but a degenerate gargoyle – then let
future historians argue among themselves whether it was like that from
the start, or changed with circumstances.
I keep making the same mistake: I blame his humble origins. Then
however I remember how many peasants’ sons have been blessed by History
with the name, The Great."

‘Hitler the Great’? No, contemporary History is unlikely to swallow
such an epithet. From the first day that he ‘seized power,’ January 30, 1933,
Hitler knew that only sudden death awaited him if he failed to restore pride
and empire to post-Versailles Germany.

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