As long ago as 1937 Hitler's biographer, Konrad Heiden, charged the German dictator with a policy of limitless expansion which was bound to end in disaster: It is the tragedy (Verhangnis) of the German dictatorship that it has turned the German liberation movement into a movement for German world dominion; in so doing, it has saddled Germany with a task for which it is in no way qualified, which is beyond its power and which will ruin it. .. for decades, if not for centuries. 1 To substantiate his charge, he quotes liberally from Hitler's ' plan of world dominion ' as set forth in the last three chapters of Mein Kampf: in these chapters, he claims, ' Hitler has told us without concealment what he wants '. 2 Having made this claim, however, Heiden at once proceeds to qualify it; Hitler's book, he warns, is only very partly an authentic revelation of National Socialist aims:
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