Hitler made each insignificant, poverty stricken, jobless youth of the slums feel like they were the best in the world. ... At each level, the superior was to give the orders, the subordinates to follow them to the letter. ... He held briefings with his senior military advisors, often in the company of Party officials and other hangers-on, each afternoon and late each night. ... No military leader can hope to understand the realities of the situation on the ground from hundreds of miles away, and yet he came to believe that he could control all but the smallest units at the front. At the e...

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