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The Young Hitler I Knew: The Memoirs of Hitler's Childhood Friend - August Kubizek

"Adolf Hitler became Reich Chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933, and at once I remembered that midnight experience on the Freinberg in 1905 when he had prophesied to me that like Rienzi of Wagner’s opera he would rise to be Volkstribun – the leader of the people. What the sixteen-year-old had seen in a visionary trance had become reality."

"Adolf climbed up to the summit of the Freinberg, and only now did I realise that we were no longer in solitude and darkness, for the stars shone brilliantly above us."

"But now he was talking of a mandate which, one day, he would receive from the people, to lead them out of servitude to the heights of freedom."

"Now I have you as a witness here in Bayreuth, Kubizek, for you were the only one there when I, a poor unknown, unveiled these plans for the first time. I remember you asked me how these plans could be realised. Now you see how it was done."

"This war will set us back many years in our building programme. It is a tragedy. I did not become Chancellor of the Greater German Reich to fight wars."
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