The Germans, who love order more than freedom, and whose ruling passion is obedience, rejoiced in their release from an uncomfortable equality into new ranks of superiors and inferiors. This is the second source of Hitler's success.

— Emil Ludwig Three Portraits: Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin (1940)

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