Abstract
Now that the New Order is past, and the Thousand-Year Reich has crumbled in a decade, we are able at last picking among the still smoking rubble, to discover the truth about that fantastic and tragical episode. It is a chastening as well as an interesting study; for we discover not only the true facts, but the extent of our own errors. If we are to understand the extraordinary tale of Hitler’s last days, and appreciate the true character of Nazi politics, it is essential that we should first dispose of those errors. We must recognise that Hitler was not a pawn; that the Nazi state was not (in any significant use of the word) totalitarian; and that its leading politicians were not a government but a court, — a court as negligible in its power of ruling, as incalculable in its capacity for intrigue, as any oriental sultanate.1
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Trevor-Roper, H.R. (1978). Hitler and his Court. In: The Last Days of Hitler. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04066-7_1
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