Comparison to the 47th American president is overworked but necessary. This excerpt comes from Hitler’s People, by the British historian Richard J. Evans:
Hitler’s vanity and narcissism reached new and ever more extraordinary heights. Long before the outbreak of war, he told a crowd of well over a million people assembled on the Tempelhof Field in Berlin that his personal will was also Germany’s national will. . . . On 23 November 1938, he told leading officers of the armed forces that a series of factors, including the weakness and debility of the British and French, made it inevitable that Germany would be victorious in a war with them. And he added: ‘As a last factor I must, in all modesty, name myself as irreplaceable. . . . I am convinced of the strength of my brain and of my decisiveness. . . . The fate of the Reich depends on me alone. . . . I will shrink from nothing, and annihilate anyone who is against me.’
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