History records no phenomenon like him. Ought we to call him “great”? No one evoked so much rejoicing, hysteria, and expectation of salvation as he; no one so much hate. No one else produced, in a solitary course lasting only a few years, such incredible accelerations in the pace of history. No one else so changed the state of the world and left behind such a wake of ruins as he did. It took a coalition of almost all the world powers to wipe him from the face of the earth in a war lasting nearly six years, to kill him—to quote an army officer of the German resistance—“like a mad dog.”历史上没有记录过像他这样的现象。我们应该叫他“伟大”吗？没有人能像他那样引起如此多的喜悦、歇斯底里和对救赎的期待；没人这么讨厌。没有其他人在短短几年的时间里，以如此惊人的速度加速了历史的进程。没有人能像他那样改变世界的现状，留下如此多的废墟。在一场持续了近六年的战争中，几乎所有世界强国组成的联盟将他从地球上抹去，并用德国抵抗运动的一名军官的话——“像疯狗一样”杀死了他