After it was all over and everything was in ruins, many Germans found it hard to admit how deceived, duped, stupid, morally untethered they'd been.
They had believed God sent him to make their nation great again.
He was going to make Christianity and Germany manly again.
He had a secret plan, higher knowledge; even when what he did seemed crazy, there was a reason for it.
It would all work out in the end. He had it under control.