This seems to be the explanation of his behaviour from March to the end, and it seems to delineate his character. Whether he renounced National Socialism emotionally, whether he returned to God as he told the Finance Minister, von Krosigk, later, whatever inner turmoil and tearing he experienced were concealed behind his vacillations and his actor’s masks. Goebbels wrote of him on 7 March as ‘one of our strongest personalities’.[48] Guderian, who had opportunity to study him closely during these last months, described him as ‘the most impenetrable of Hitler’s disciples’.
