“Hitler expressed it in a form which made it intelligible to the masses. ‘We do not want any other god than Germany itself. It is essential to have fanatical faith and hope and love in and for Germany.”

—  Konrad Heiden

Source: A History of National Socialism (1934), p. 100

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