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Hitler did carry a rifle on the Western Front for 4 years in WW1, being cited for bravery with the award of the Iron Cross.

When Hitler dictated his Last Will and Testament to his Secretary Traudel in April 1945, she thought that finally Hitler would reveal the reason why he led Germany to war and it's nadir. She was surprised that it was the same old monologue of it being about the Banker etc Jews persecuting Germany from attaining it's rightful place of greatness and that the German people were not up to the task of being great. That the German people deserved to perish for their failure.

What Germany was left with after Hitler was the horror of being so ethically and morally devoid that they could so willfully and joyfully commit abominations against humanity.

In the secular world of having no God there is no absolution by asking for forgiveness for ones sins, leaving only a denial that it ever happened to cleanse the soul. Since this is a contravention of the reality of such barbarism it is a form of madness. The Germans and other like minded Europeans did oversee the industrialization of Genocide.

In the high civilization world of Goethe, Beethoven and Bach such bestiality could and did take place on a grand scale.