What he was like after his interview in the Chancellery bunker is not recorded nor what Hitler said to him, but in the evening Hitler told Goebbels in a telephone conversation that he had given him ‘an extraordinarily severe dressing-down’.[43] The grotesquely swollen ego that made Hitler lay the blame for catastrophe on everyone but himself provoked the desire, since he had to fall, to bring everything down with him. Lust for the destruction of his enemies, the driving force of his years in power and of the war itself, turned on the German Volk who had proved biologically inferior, and failed
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