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r How, one may ask, waft it ^wfitib^e for a person vith t{itlar*e past life and stMtrfcfcl tendeuctoe to seriously? The answer ie relatively simple. He believed i t bec&uea he wanted to believe it—in fact, had to believe i t in order to save himself. All the unpleas an trie s of tht past he now interpreted as part of a great design* Just a& i t was Fate which ordained he should be born on the Austrian ai£e of the border, so i t was Fate which sent him to Vienna to suffer hardships in order to tnJt* the "uij-k-sop out of hlffl by giving him Dftjfle Sorron as a foster-pother" and "kept hJjs at the front where any negro could shoot him down when he could have rendered a much more worthwhile service elsewhere," and so i t was probably Fate which decre*d his past life end tendencies- These were • r th« crosses he had to bear in order to prove his o«ttla. Ha night have been speaking about himfle.lf "ben he said ojf Germany t / thia battle should mot ccm»f never would Germany win peace, Gensany would decay and at the btv% would sink to ruin like a rotting cor pee. But that ia not our destiny, W» do not believe that thin piiaTortun* vhlch today our God sends over Germany has no oeaningt it is atirsly the Bcourge which {Should and shall drlwe ua to new greatnesfi, to a oav power and tflory* *." Before thip new greutneae, power and glory could b* achieved, however, i t wad necessary to conquer the misfortune* The B±sfortiu»j in Hitler^ caflft* so he probably thought, wa» nffCA*fFjrr;r:AV:r:w the emotional identification he hed made with his mother during qhildhood. He^tad "Used thia ae a een&a-jfbanc for his personality LI *• . i - • - - - ^ REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES