بعد زيارة هذه الأماكن، يسهل عليك أن تدرك أن هتلر، بعد بضع سنوات، سيبرز من الكراهية المحيطة به الآن بوصفه واحدًا من أعظم الشخصيات التي عرفها التاريخ. كان طموحه لبلاده بلا حدود، مما جعله خطرًا على سلام العالم، لكن في طريقة عيشه وفي طريقة موته كان ثمة غموض سيبقى ويتنامى بعده. كان فيه مادة الأساطير.

“After visiting these places, you can easily understand how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived. He had boundless ambition for his country which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way that he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made.”John F. Kennedy — Prelude to Leadership