Seated with the rest of the press in the gallery of the former opera house, Shirer had a sense of déjà vu. Hitler’s words, he noted, were almost identical with those I’ve heard him offer from the same rostrum after every conquest he has made since the march into the Rhineland in 1936 . . . And though they were the fifth at least, and just like the others and just as sincerely spoken, most Germans I’ve talked to since seem aghast if you suggest that perhaps the outside world will put no more trust in them than they have learned by bitter experience to put in the others.
