" Sebastian Haffner wrote in 1940 that it was a tragic coincidence that Hitler’s “personal plight coincided so much with the German plight in 1919.”43 Indeed, the frustration of the young failed individual dovetailed with the traumas of the wartime and post-war generations, and when they came together they released tremendous destructive energy, without which it is impossible to understand the later crimes of National Socialism. "
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