.” (Haffner: 83) Hitler revered himself as a champion for mankind, and truly believed that the genocide of the Jewish race would create a utopian society. Hitler’s philosophy was kill or be killed, in that, “if the Jew with the aid of the Marxist creed remains victorious over the nations of this world, then his crown will be the wreath on the graves of mankind.” (Haffner: 82) From the Hitlerist perspective, the Jews were infiltrating the “Aryan” nations in order to weaken them and eventually dominate the world. Because of this ‘internationalism’, they had to be exterminated. In the end “Hitler achieved the opposite of what he aimed at.” (Haffner: 101) His relentless persecution and tyrannical actions in the pursuit of a nation, which only existed in the delusional framework of his mind, turned upon him and unraveled before his eyes. He transformed a once powerful nation into a mere skeleton of its former self, at the tragic cost of human life. “Germans were his chosen people because his inborn power instinct pointed to them like a compass needle as to the greatest potential power in Europe in his day-which in fact they were, and it was only as an instrument of power that he was ever genuinely interested in them.” (Haffner: 164) Hitler’s need for power served only to satisfy his cryptic indulgences. It was power for the sake of power, to which there is no purpose, and therefore no acceptable outcome. ...
