Führer

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He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future

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Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.

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throughout his life and career, he had a patrician sympathy with the underdog. He served in the ranks in the war, having failed the competition for a commission, and developed a contempt for hierarchy and authority (besides his own) and a social sympathy for the less fortunate that was genuine and lasting. His political initiation – and his early political power base – was in organisations for returning prisoners of war. This need not have led him to the socialist left but it helped him accomplish the transition with an authenticity born to some degree from experience.

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No feats of intellectual and political gymnastics can substitute or detract from personal experience. In his case, it was his intimate experience of Germany prostrate, impoverished and divided, that dominated his twenties and shaped him fundamentally.

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natural authority rooted in an “inner solitude” – “a part of [his] being that was locked, inaccessible to others, which is one of the characteristics of uncommon leaders everywhere”

He was ultimately a failure