"The question of 'historical greatness' was usually implicit in the writing of conventional biography β particularly so in the German tradition. The figure of Hitler, whose attributes β distinguished from his political aura and impact β were scarcely noble, elevating or enriching, posed self-evident problems for such a tradition."
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