エーリヒ・ルーデンドルフ
Comparing him to Erich Ludendorff, Fest writes: "Hitler had detached himself from such affections, in which he encountered the obscurantism of his early years, Lanz v. Liebenfels and the Thule Society, again, long ago and had, in "Mein Kampf", formulated his scathing contempt for that völkish romanticism, which however his own cosmos of imagination preserved rudimentarily."