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8himself on the back in thought. He would have preferred toknow what “feudal” meant but he realized that having usedthe word so long it would be awkward for him to makeinquiries.In sombre silence Hitler the Elder listened to him. “Feudal”had made a hit and he decided not to let the bakersmile so knowingly.“Ours is a different ideology,” he retorted and now it washis turn to beam. The baker was floored. “Ideology” hadproved too strong for him.Adolf had often witnessed these verbal duels and was proudof the permission to listen to something he did not understand.The baker was a believer in Germany‟s racial superiority.He had heard the word “racial superiority” at a public meeting,where a Pomeranian with an execrable accent spokeabout it all evening. The drift of the address had escapedthe baker but he remembered the two words.“Look at all the Hungarians, Czechs, Poles, South Slavsand Italians you have,” the baker told Hitler the Elder at hisnext visit. This was not a fair demand because the bakerhad meanwhile studied the question in his favourite paperwhile Hitler was not prepared to accept the challenge.“We are one nation,” the baker went on, quoting a paragraphthat he had memorized, “taking great pride in ourracial force. We are out to capture a place in the sun andnot, as our enemies assert” – here he registered a timid stagesmile – “not the entire sun.”This was too beautiful to be contradicted, so the baker