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HO at Bt*rtlin£ of thtts* is the following i \- n 1 was eating HJ dinner In a trench with several comrades. Suddenly a TO lift seeined H, to bo saving to na, 'Get up sad go o « r there*' It was BO clear stud insistent that I obeyed butouticallj, ftB if i t ha<J been a ailltary order* I rase at once to py feet and walked twenty yard* along the trench carrying my dinner in Itfl tin can with me« Thea I sat down to go on eating, i^y nind be log once ta.<m at r«st» Hardly had I done BO l&Ml a flasli and daafoning report caj» fttw the part of the trench I had Just l e f t . JL stray ehell hjsid burnt over the group la which I had baaa sitting* and every number of It was killed.11 (Pi-lea, £41) Theat also, there wae the via ion he had while ID hospital at Pasew&Ut Buffering from blindness flllegoUj caused by • •Ala lch ID Beit lag kan mir dor Gadanka, da£s ich Deutflchland befreieoa vuerdet flfl gross aachan wuflrde, und ich babe gewuajtt, daes das mrwirklicht warden ^ (429) • These vsperleDcas nu&t later bd*9 fit In beautifully with the views of the Munich aetrologere and it is possible that r underneath Hitler felt that If there n t any truth in ihoir predictions they probably referred to blm* But in thofle days he did not nentlou any connection betwaen the« or dwell on the guidance he belief ad be posMseed* Perhape ha felt that nida at the boglxuiiog of the naTOmant sight hinder rather than, help it* Howsver, as von Wiegand has pointed out, be wafi not avarae to Aalcing use of the forecaflts to advance his owa end a* At that tins he n e content with the role of a "anawr" who was heralding the coning of the real Hvlor* Er*n then, howenr, the role of dnaawr was not *P innocent or as lnaig- nifleant in Hitler1* »ind as night be supposed* This waa brought REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES