"Adolf Hitler may have been wrong all down the line, but one thing is beyond dispute: the man was able to work his way up from lance corporal in the German Army to Führer of a people of almost 80 million. … His success alone proved that I should subordinate myself to this man."
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As quoted in "The Eichmann Memoir" in The Personalist Volume XLII (1962).
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