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-IBB- V • duee tha Fuehrer personality to assart itself* Rauschning ho.3 put this wellt la languid and apathetic by nature and needs the stimulus of nervous ei- ei tern*; it to rou&& him out of chronic lethargy to a spasmodic activity** [£6B) "Be fora Hitler can net he nuat In eh him- out of lethargy and d&ubts Into 6 ) Having lashed himself into this etate of wind he can play the "Fuehrer™ to perfectl&iu When tha transfer-nation takeu place • • , L • in his personality all hie Tiowfl, aentiaenta anH values are also transformed. The result is thftt as- ^Fuehrer" he can make state- ' meats with great con fiction whiah flatly contradict what "Hitlar" t. SAld 6. fev: ninutea earlier. He can grappla Fith tha most important problaros and in a few; minute a reduce: thym to extremaly ai^ple tariaa, ha can m^p out campaignfi^ ba the Supreme Judge, deal with diplomats, ignore ell ethical nm\ moral principals a F ordar eocacutlcrca or the destruction of citi«s without th# slightcot haaitdtion. And he can b# in the bust of humor while he is doing i t . till of thio would haw. been completely impossible for "Hitler"* Hitler likes to believe that this la bio true ealf and he has medeenery effort to convince the ftfenrai people that it is only aalf, Bnt It la an art if ac a. Tha whola nFuehrarIt peraonality lc a grosely exaggerated and distorted ccncaptlon of ibaeculinlty at Hitler co&caivee it# Undoubtedly ho would like to be fluch a person in r&ality and balieven that he actually is tbfit pereou - but he d*- calves himself« This pare Duality shows oil the eHr-mjirka of 9. reac- tion, formation which has bean created unconsciously as a 1 i , REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES