He and Goebbels, less than twenty years before both ragged, wandering activists for a semi-proscribed, minority cause, putting up at the poor homes of Party members wherever they spoke, became the key figures in the last stand of the system that had grown miraculously from their efforts. Hitler had disappeared from public view. Only the image Goebbels had created of him remained potent. It was Goebbels, appointed Commissioner for ‘Total War’, and Himmler, in his role as drummer for the new divisions, who sought to mobilise all resources for the war effort and recruit all males at home – then
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