The Worship of Hitler The apotheosis of Herr Hitler proceeds
apace.. It is in the natural order of development that all Ministers of the Reich and Regional Governments should be requested to take an oath of loyalty to Herr Hitler in his personal rather than merely his official capacity, and that Dr. Lammers, State Secretary at the Chancery, should declare that one of the most important features of the new (and still unwritten) constitution of the Nazi State should be the concentration of all governing power in the person of the Fiihrer. Nazi Germany has certainly not yet assumed its final form, and it need not be con- cluded that the people as a whole is enthusiastic over • the- latest political developments. It has not been con- sulted and has no. means of expressing its approval or dissent. There has undeniably been created in the past twelve months a kind of obscurantist mysticism which makes even the prevalent Hitlerolatry almost intelligible. But that spirit is so alien from anything with which we are familiar—or desire to be—in this country that the comprehension of German politics today by English observers must necessarily be subject to limi- tations. Even Italians have not carried their homage to Signor Mussolini to these lengths.
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