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...more shadowy figure than Gehlen himself, Reichsleiter (National Leader) Bormann rose from an obscure fund raiser for the Nazi Party to become the second most powerful official of the Third Reich. The short, stocky Bormann was Secretary to the Fuhrer, Director of the Party Chancellery, and one of the most hated and feared men in Hitler's Germany...
...Fuhrer himself could not have put it more eloquently. But perhaps it is no coincidence...
Magnetic Power. The inefficiencies and inconsistencies of the modern world's most savagely totalitarian state were staggering. Hitler's satraps ran separate duchies of their own, and the supposedly all-powerful Fuhrer often found his orders circumvented by his lieutenants-even by Speer, who, as Armaments Minister in the waning months of war, quietly sabotaged Hitler's scorched-earth policy for territories about to be lost to the Allied armies. Hitler sometimes found his close associates absurd. When SS Chief Heinrich Himmler sought through archaeological excavations to demonstrate the early growth of German culture, Hitler scoffed...
...politics his risible handful of strutting, beswastikaed American Nazi Party bullyboys, agape at their Fuhrer's harangues of hate, made even the sneering epithet "Halfpenny Hitler" sound overpriced...
Angel of Destruction. For a time Stauffenberg tried to serve that new order. Fighting for his Fuhrer in the Afrika Korps, he lost his right hand and two fingers of his left, and was posted to the general staff. His work at the highest level convinced him at last that he was serving a vicious criminal cause Rapidly he found himself one of a number of German officers and influential civilians who felt that German honor -not to speak of Europe itself-could survive only if Hitler were overthrown and peace negotiated. Stauffenberg personally enlisted many friends in a conspiracy...