{"id":70210,"date":"2025-09-22T10:57:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=70210"},"modified":"2025-09-22T13:32:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T17:32:16","slug":"the-vanity-and-narcissism-of-an-irreplaceable-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2025\/09\/the-vanity-and-narcissism-of-an-irreplaceable-leader.html","title":{"rendered":"The Vanity and Narcissism of an ‘Irreplaceable’ Leader<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Comparison to the 47th American president is overworked but necessary. This excerpt comes from Hitler’s People<\/a>,<\/em> by the British historian Richard J. Evans<\/a>:<\/strong><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Hitler\u2019s 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\u2019s national will.<\/strong><\/em> . . . 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: \u2018As 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<\/strong><\/em> anyone who is against me.\u2019<\/em><\/strong>
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