"Himmler, who knew so well the mentality of those he organised, described not only his SS-men, but the large strata from which he recruited them, when he said they were not interested in 'everyday problems' but only 'in ideological questions of importance for decades and centuries, so that the man ... knows he is working for a great task which occurs but once in 2,000 years.' The gigantic massing of individuals produced a mentality ... thought in continents and felt in centuries." Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism.
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"Himmler, who knew so well the mentality of those he organised, described not only his SS-men, but the large strata from which he recruited them, when he said they were not interested in 'everyday problems' but only 'in ideological questions of importance for decades and centuries, so that the man ... knows he is working for a great task which occurs but once in 2,000 years.' The gigantic massing of individuals produced a mentality ... thought in continents and felt in centuries." Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism.