#operation garbo

[The German people] suffered a crushing defeat in 1918 and no one was there to give them a helping hand. They had been deeply humiliated and left with no friends to comfort them. It was at this point, at this decisive moment when the lack of understanding on the part of their neighbors left them dispossessed, scorned and offended, that an ambitious and cruel human being—a maniac, an inhuman brute—arose and cajoled them with his empty verbosity.