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This chapter reflects on what National Socialism meant to some of those who lived and died during its violent dissolution. It features rich and imaginative gossip about some of the most powerful figures of the Nazi dictatorship, including Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Joseph Goebbels, and Heinrich Himmler, architects of many of the most brutal policies that defined the destructive, and self-destructive, end phase of the war. The chapter also reviews the frustrations and trials of popular mobilization, the growing disappointments over the conditions of day-to-day life, and the creeping terror of the possibility of defeat. It then suggests why these factors failed to obliterate popular faith in the possibility of German victory for so long. Ultimately, the chapter examines why many Germans proved surprisingly agile in their adjustment to defeat and the post-Nazi world. |
