Even knowing that it was coming, that his father was sick with this incurable disease, it still made no sense. All that had just been lost, taken so quickly. Not just his father. Not just the emperor.
His youth. His freedom.
"You will be a good emperor," said Torin. "As he was."
Most of us can observe at least moments of our own spontaneity which are at the same time moments of geniune happiness. Whether it be the fresh and spontaneous perception of a landscape, or the dawning of some truth as the result of our thinking, or a sensuous pleasure that is not stereotyped, or the welling up of love for another person --- in these moments we all know what a spontaneous act is and may have some vision of what human life could be if these experiences were not such rare and uncultivated occurrences.
Catholics, who had been strong in the German republic during the 1920s, endorsed the new Nazi government and supported the agreement ( concordat ) the Führer signed with the pope in 1933 guaranteeing the freedom to practice the Catholic religion. The concordat was an important milestone for Hitler. It greatly increased his prestige, and it successfully excluded Catholics from German politics. Hitler, however, had no intention of keeping his part of the bargain.