Forgetting that Britain was not yet defeated and forgetting – briefly – their normal gripes about shortages and the venality of the ‘big shots’, their euphoria focused on him. Even the proverbially dour Swabians acknowledged ‘wholly, joyfully, and thankfully the superhuman greatness of the Führer and his work’. After conquering Poland, few Germans had felt like celebrating. But now clamour for new photos of the Führer was accompanied by doting discussion of his expressions. Tough, working-class districts which had seen much street fighting between Nazi storm troopers and communists in the
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