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He was born in obscurity, but he brought the entire world to the brink of disaster.

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His name became synonymous with evil, redefining the meaning of hatred.

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Many call him a demon in human form, using the mystic arts to control the destiny of millions.

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He was Adolf Hitler.

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The first ever demon in the world, he was a demon in the world.

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Beyond what is known as an unexplored world of shadows and phantoms,

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a land that knows no limits of time or space.

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From the dawn of discovery to the nightfall of catastrophe,

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journey through a universe of the unexplained, the unforeseen, the unbelievable.

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A place beyond reality where no question will go unanswered,

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and a place where myth and legend are all superstition of science.

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The end of the world

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It's time for our journey to begin.

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He twisted a nation around his crooked cross, and folding them inside his nightmare.

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His name Adolf Hitler.

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Knowledge surrounds these library walls, and with these instruments, that knowledge can be ours.

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Adolf Hitler has become one of the best known historical figures of this century.

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His brutal reign of power in Germany, his domination of most of Europe,

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his terrible crimes against the innocent, are all part of our recent history.

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What is not so well known as the world's most powerful,

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the world's most powerful, is the world's most powerful,

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are all part of our recent history.

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What is not so well known is how Hitler used powers of the occult

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to grab and hold the minds of millions, many of whom followed him into the grave.

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Ten days after his 56th birthday, Adolf Hitler ended his life.

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Around him the last embers of Nazi Germany still glowed.

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In just six years, Hitler had laid waste to Europe.

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Yet only a few years earlier, millions had considered him a saviour,

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a hero of almost mystic proportions.

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It is hard to imagine that such a man existed, but he did.

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Hitler was the greatest mover and shaker of the 20th century.

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By that I don't say he's a great man.

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But all those of my age, for example, had their lives changed by Adolf Hitler.

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He was a product of an age, a product of a century, perhaps, a product of ten centuries.

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There probably wouldn't be another man like him for the next ten centuries,

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and thank God we can say it.

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The tremendous human quality, if you want to call it equality,

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that Hitler had along with other great leaders was Will Powell.

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His Will Powell was prominent in his timing with all the wonderful people.

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He had a sense of sizing up his opponents, seeing their weak qualities and taking advantage of it.

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So all these factors, I think, are amped to explaining why this real nut

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took power of a great civilized country.

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It was little in Hitler's childhood to indicate what was to lie ahead,

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for he dreamed only of being an artist, and when his father died he set out to Vienna to live out his dream.

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It was in Vienna that the seeds would be sown that would bring forth such a bitter crop in his later life.

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In Vienna.

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The years that Adolf Hitler spent in Vienna from 1907 to 1913 forever marked his life.

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He went there at Calo Youth and left an embittered fanatic.

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Little is known about the young Hitler's life in that Austrian city.

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We must go back and see that life for ourselves.

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The portal is set for Vienna, Austria.

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It's 11.30 in the evening of December 18, 1908.

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You're going to Fellstrasse 22, apartment 12, and in that apartment...

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You'll be there.

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Yes, but remember, you cannot change history.

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You can only observe.

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He will not see you, but you will see him.

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But wait, you'll need this.

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The apartment is quite cold. He can't afford to heat the flat.

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I won't be long.

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In this cramped apartment, the boy who would become the most feared man in the world worked and dreamed.

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Hitler never realized his goal of becoming an artist,

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but he railed at the stupidity of those who find his work stiff, lifeless.

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Hitler had a feverish intensity that would never desert him,

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and his waking eyes were filled with dreams and demons which would haunt him throughout his life.

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It was in Vienna that Hitler would cultivate his pathological hatred of the Jews,

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and through anti-Semitic literature at the time, he would begin to form his doctrine of destruction, of extermination.

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It was at this time in this place that adult Hitler and history would begin to move toward their fatal rendezvous, here in Vienna.

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How long was I gone?

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Even then, he was filled with hate.

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World War I was the crucible where that hate would be cast into a lethal weapon.

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Hitler was recovering from a poisoned gas attack when Germany abruptly surrendered.

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He told an army psychiatrist that he had experienced a supernatural vision that told him it was up to him to lead Germany back to its glorious past.

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For an unknown army corporal to entertain such ambitions is astounding.

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To achieve it in 15 years is staggering.

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He had this faith in himself, this little voice that assured him that he was on the right track.

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He never wavered in his belief that he was going to upturn the world.

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He was destined by fate to lead Germany to become the dominant power in the world.

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And in the end, it was a total belief that he was the greatest man of his time.

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The relationship between coincidence and destiny is ambiguous.

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Hitler's path to power was paved with events that almost defy belief.

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In the case of the wrong man appearing precisely at the right time.

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There's a French term, va bon spiel, the fellow who goes for broke.

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The American Indian would be the crap game, the man who keeps throwing sevens.

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And Hitler threw an awful lot of sevens.

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You wonder what about his luck?

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He managed to turn disasters into positive things.

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I'm not a determinist. I don't believe even today that he was bound to lose.

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But Gamma was pinned in the end that I broke, and Hitler certainly did.

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I often go on bitter nights to votan's oak, in the quiet glade with dark powers to weave a union.

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The runic letters the moon makes with its magic spell.

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Hitler wrote those words from the trenches in World War I.

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And weave a union he did using a symbol that would counter-haunt the world.

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Surprisingly enough, the swastika can be found in many different cultures over many different centuries.

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It was no coincidence that Hitler personally chose the swastika.

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For like most of the outward trappings of Nazism, that symbol touched a repressed chord in many who beheld it, a pagan mystical chord.

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Hitler wanted to make sure that his party would be associated with superstition, terror, and he achieved his goal.

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The colors of his flag are telling, a bloody red with a circle white as a human skull, and at the heart, the crooked darkness, the swastika.

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The almost demonic power of Hitler has been much commented on by historians.

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A closer look at how Hitler acquired these powers may just unlock the riddle of how one man could come so close to enslaving much of Europe, and why he failed.

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Hitler came to power during the late 1920s and early 30s.

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He was assisted by a roguest gallery of men, many of whom were fanatic believers in the mystic arts.

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Adolf Hitler was familiar with this occult world as well.

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This man, Rudolf Hess, was Hitler's right hand during his rise to power.

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He was also a dedicated occultist and follower of a man named Dietrich Eckart.

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Hitler had met Eckart in 1919 and under his tutelage, his speaking abilities increased dramatically.

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Many who witnessed the transformation swore that Hitler had the gift of hypnotizing the masses.

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Hitler was probably the most hypnotic speaker of his era, perhaps of all time.

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He had great powers of connecting with people, of communication.

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And there's no doubt at all that his rise would do more to his oratory than any other single thing.

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We corresponded, we sit at the Hitler's speech and we would say to ourselves, or whisper to each other,

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there's a lot of nonsense, it's much rubbish.

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When you look around the hall and the German people would be sitting there with their mouths open and their eyes blazing.

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Hitler soon cast his spell over Germany, using his instinctive flair for pageant.

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He and his henchmen brought back the Dark Ages, figuratively and literally.

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Curiously, this Dark Age of the German Spirit had been anticipated, perhaps prophesied, a few decades earlier.

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In 1896, an English author, M.P. Schiel, wrote a novel about a band of murderers who roamed throughout Europe,

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exterminating and cremating anyone who got in their way.

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Schiel called his book the SS.

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Though Hitler had never read it, this terrible prophecy came to pass as the Schützstattel, or SS, helped Hitler tighten his iron grip on so much of Europe.

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Henry Himmler, the leader of the SS, was obsessed with the occult.

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He conducted strange research programmes into Germany's mystical past and sent his SS on bizarre missions to acquire mystic talismans,

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including, legend has it, the lost Ark of the Covenant.

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A front truce, the widow of the great architect, later became Hitler's architect.

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She told us that one day, Hitler said, you know, I have escaped death a number of times, but he said, you know, it was not luck.

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A little voice warned me, and I would just take that action.

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Well, he believed in this little voice up to the end, and then the little voice disappeared.

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On June 21st, 1941, Hitler's luck began to change. On that day, he invaded the Soviet Union.

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Surprisingly, it was the stars that betrayed him.

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And as to the logical mistake, that was the beginning of the end for the Third Reich.

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An old Hitler was a gambler. He gambled callously with the lives of millions and with history.

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As with any gambler, his luck eventually had to run out.

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And in 1941, his fortunes began to change.

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The Nazis' faith in the occult led them into catastrophe in early 1941,

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when a group of astrologers working within the SS proclaimed with complete confidence

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that the winter of 1941 to 42 would be an unusually mild one.

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Armed with that guarantee, at his overwhelming belief in his destiny,

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Hitler launched his invasion of the Soviet Union.

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That summer soon melted into fall, and then winter, a bitterly cold winter.

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What happened was, unfortunately for Russia and the opponents of Hitler,

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it was a most severe winter in Russia in, I don't know, 40, 50 years.

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By the time that he was about to storm Moscow, he found that it had run out of summer.

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The rains turned into sleet, the sleet turned into snow, and ice, minus 20, 30, 40 degrees.

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The tanks froze solidly, the gunpowder didn't explode anymore, it just fizzed, it just squibbed.

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And Adolf Hitler, in fact, had overleashed himself, and he had taken the curves too fast.

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That was when his luck began to run out, and from that time on it was all down to heaven.

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This debacle would doom the Third Reich.

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Hitler's rash declaration of war upon the United States would also ensure his early defeat.

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The same blind belief in his luck that led him to victory would now hurry him to catastrophe.

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And in the summer of 1944, as the Allies tightened their grip around the Nazi Empire,

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a group of German generals realized that Hitler had to go.

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The plot involved the placement of a bomb in Hitler's east Prussian headquarters.

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It seemed that, at last, his luck had run out.

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I interviewed seven people who were sitting around the table.

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When Hitler was being briefed, and the man who was talking to Hitler at the time told me he saw this colonel

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put in a briefcase next to Hitler, except it was on the opposite side of a post.

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Unfortunately, he put down the wrong side or Hitler would have been killed.

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Somehow, something, his destiny, whether it was, prevented this, I don't know what it was.

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Like some demonic character from the Wagner operas, he loved so much.

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It almost seemed that Hitler was ordained to lead his nation into oblivion.

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But as April of 1945 began, a fantastic prophecy was fulfilled.

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A prophecy that the Nazis thought would ensure their salvation.

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Joseph Goebbels' astrologers assured him that in mid-April of 1945,

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fortune would turn in the Nazis' favour, precisely as predicted, at prophecy came to pass,

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with consequences that still affect our lives today.

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As the Allied armies closed the noose on Berlin in 1945,

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news was brought to Hitler's bunker.

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An ecstatic Goebbels told his Fuhrer that his prophecy had come to pass.

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His arch-anime, Franklin Roosevelt, was dead.

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The Nazis rejoiced. Surely now the Americans would lose their will to fight.

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As in so many things, they were terribly wrong.

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The new President, Harry Truman, was equally dedicated to the destruction of the Nazi Empire,

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and two weeks later, Adolf Hitler shot himself.

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His thousand-year Reich inflames around him.

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He was a man who had the lives of millions of people as his responsibility,

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and also who was responsible for having taken the lives of millions of people.

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He actually believed the world would thank him for killing the Jews.

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He maintained this fallacy throughout his life, but his effect on the world was indelible,

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and will remain so as long as we have people that read books.

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Adolf Hitler's life lasted 56 years.

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Those years saw the world transformed into a new and terrifying landscape.

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He was in some ways an actor, skillfully playing to the worst impulses of his global audience.

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Fortunately, the curtain rang down upon him and his theatre of insanity,

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but not before millions had paid with their lives.

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Adolf Hitler, a demon in human form.

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His terrible legacy must never be forgotten.

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Secrets and mysteries presents information based in part on theories and opinions,

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some of which are controversial.

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but through the use of actualities and dramatic recreation,

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relate a possible relationship between the two.

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The secret and mysteries present information based in part on theories and opinions,

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some of which are controversial.

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The actualities and dramatic recreation relate a possible answer,

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but not the only answer to this material.