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Adolf Hitler's Day in Court (Part 8)

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The End of Hitler

Hitler's ailing mentor, the one who house-trained him politically, does not last long inside. Dietrich Eckhart is released on compassionate grounds and will die on Boxing Day. Ludendorf remains under house arrest while authorities figure out how to handle that rather delicate situation. His widow, Matilda, visits Hitler nonetheless. She assures him that he still has her support. Her husband's death wasn't his fault. He mustn't give up. And so they sit there. This ragtag bunch of failed revolutionaries. These impassioned national socialists. Men who not long before had fancied themselves the stewards of a brand new Germany. A brand new Reich. They are the

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