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“dressed in a formal frock coat—with an Iron Cross still pinned on its front3—the same outfit he’d worn for the putsch, for his failed march to Odeon Square, and during his escape to Ernst Hanfstaengl’s villa. Beside him, “their shadows flickering and dancing in the darkness before them,” walked Landsberg Prison warden Otto Leybold and two police officers, one of them leading a “strong dog” on a chain. The prison was still, except for the slamming of iron doors behind the men. In the dead of night, Adolf Hitler had arrived at what would be his home for most of the next thirteen months. Located”
― Peter Ross Range, 1924: The Year That Made Hitler

“His actions as dictator, warlord, and mass murderer bore out the hubristic plans he developed in Landsberg Prison and crystallized in Mein Kampf. The entire war in the West—what Americans think of as World War II—was in fact just Rückendeckung, or covering his rear, for Hitler’s forward thrust to the East—just as he explained in Mein Kampf.3 From the minute he left Landsberg until his final moment on earth, Hitler was obsessed with two things: capturing Lebensraum from Russia and ridding the world of Jews.”
― Peter Ross Range, 1924: The Year That Made Hitler