The Mask of Command
What was Hitler's impact on and relationship with his soldiers?
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Keegan says it best when he says, "The essence of Hitler's achievement of dominance over the German army may be briefly stated: finding it humbled and diminished, he gave it back its strength and pride, but he took from it in compensation, though in scarcely perceptible installments, its independence and autonomy and so eventually its dignity and conscience" (p. 269).