Himmler ranked Hitler’s person as a value outweighing even the German people

Evidence

It says: “What values can we place onto the scales of history? The value of our own people… The second, I would almost say, even greater value is the unique person of our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler,…who for the first time after two thousand years …was sent to the Germanic race as a great leader…” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2752

Categorization

• XREF: Evidence for the leader’s person as the supreme political value — connects to how charismatic authority displaces institutions in the totalitarian framework Arendt builds.