Himmler had always appeared the most powerful figure under Hitler. It is impossible to say whether he was in practice, and meaningless to ask since he was never prepared to use his power directly to change the course of events; he amassed it to garner more as others amass fortunes and lay them up in securities and bank vaults. He infiltrated and formed alliances and when the time was ripe made spectacular take-overs, and hungered for more empires to topple and dreamed of unlimited authority in a world of Saga, but he did not, it seems he could not, flex the vast network of interlocking force
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