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i read some nazi said that hitler already has thought about everything at 36yo
The quote you're likely referring to comes from Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Propaganda Minister. In his diaries (specifically an entry from 1926, later referenced again in the 1930s and 1940s), Goebbels wrote admiringly about Hitler:
A particularly fanatical version that circulated within Nazi circles (and is sometimes misremembered today) is the claim that by age 36 (around 1925, the year Mein Kampf Volume I was published), Hitler had already developed the complete worldview, political strategy, and ideological system that would later guide the Third Reich. Senior Nazis like Goebbels, Himmler, and Rudolf Hess repeatedly praised Hitler in those terms: that his ideas were fully formed very early, needed no further development, and that everything the party later did was merely the execution of a plan Hitler had conceived in his 30s (in Vienna, in the trenches of WWI, or in Landsberg prison).
In reality, this was deliberate myth-making. Hitler’s ideas did crystallize relatively early (especially 1919–1925), but they continued to evolve tactically, and many key policies (the Final Solution, the exact structure of the Lebensraum war, the alliance with Japan, etc.) were not worked out in detail until the late 1930s and early 1940s. The “he already thought of everything at 36” line was part of the Führer cult: it portrayed Hitler as an infallible, prophetic genius whose every later decision had been preordained decades earlier.
So yes, Nazis (especially Goebbels) really did say things like that, and they meant it as the highest possible praise.
The quote you're likely referring to comes from Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Propaganda Minister. In his diaries (specifically an entry from 1926, later referenced again in the 1930s and 1940s), Goebbels wrote admiringly about Hitler:
A particularly fanatical version that circulated within Nazi circles (and is sometimes misremembered today) is the claim that by age 36 (around 1925, the year Mein Kampf Volume I was published), Hitler had already developed the complete worldview, political strategy, and ideological system that would later guide the Third Reich. Senior Nazis like Goebbels, Himmler, and Rudolf Hess repeatedly praised Hitler in those terms: that his ideas were fully formed very early, needed no further development, and that everything the party later did was merely the execution of a plan Hitler had conceived in his 30s (in Vienna, in the trenches of WWI, or in Landsberg prison).
In reality, this was deliberate myth-making. Hitler’s ideas did crystallize relatively early (especially 1919–1925), but they continued to evolve tactically, and many key policies (the Final Solution, the exact structure of the Lebensraum war, the alliance with Japan, etc.) were not worked out in detail until the late 1930s and early 1940s. The “he already thought of everything at 36” line was part of the Führer cult: it portrayed Hitler as an infallible, prophetic genius whose every later decision had been preordained decades earlier.
So yes, Nazis (especially Goebbels) really did say things like that, and they meant it as the highest possible praise.
