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The face *t Germany was being lifted at an incredlbla speed. Hitler wna keeping hid promised} ha was accomplishing thtt J , r >• impossible. Erery ffuacesg in diplomacy, every aoaial reform waff heraldad as wortf-ahaklng la itP importance* And for each tf Hitler modestly accepted all the credit* It wan Hitler that did this, and Hitler who did that, provided iota were apactaoular and met with the approval of the i public If thsy happened to meet with disapproval, It one of hifl assistants who n s to blame, K?«y made to cultivate the attitude that Hitler waa infallible and waa carrying through hifl miflpioji of saying .Gemaay* It WHS not lonff before the German people weia prepared to take the short fltep of seetitff Hitler, not aa a man, hut aa a of Gflrm&ny. Public neetiDgs and particularly the toot on a religious atmosphere* All tha stagings ware to create a eupernsturftl and religious attitude and entry was more befitting a god than e man. In Berlin one of the large axt shops on Hater dan Linden exhibited a large portrait of Eltlffr in the center of ite display wlndo** Hitler's portrait was entirely surrounded as though by « halo, with variou* copies of a painting of Christ (High, 453)* ffotafl appeared ifl the prasfl to the effect that, "Ala er aprach, hoerte man den Uantal Gattw duroh d«i 6nal rauecbeol* .Zieaar raportn that on the aide of a hUU in Gdenwald, conepicuoup a» a waterfall, painted on white oanfas ware to* bliolc •I* belleY* in Holy Germany Hoiy Germany lfl HitlerI Wa bftlleTe in Holy EiUerU" (765) REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES