Хорошая цитата из Ширера

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 касающаяся попытки убить Гитлера 20 июля 1944 года:

 Even after the end of the war General Blumentritt, who was not in on the

conspiracy but would have supported it had his chief, Kluge, been of sterner

stuff, found that at least ”one half of the civil population was shocked that the

German generals had taken part in the attempt to overthrow Hitler, and felt

bitterly toward them in consequence – and the same feeling was manifested in

the Army itself.”
 

 By a hypnotism that defies explanation – at least by a non-German Hitler

held the allegiance and trust of this remarkable people to the last. It was

inevitable that they would follow him blindly, like dumb cattle but also with a

touching faith and even an enthusiasm that raised them above the animal herd,

over the precipice to the destruction of the nation.