“The most ridiculous thing about the myth of the ‘pure Arian Race’ was the fact, that apart from Baldur von Schirach, the Commander-in-Chief of the Hitlerjugend, there was hardly anybody in the top ranks of the Party who even remotely looked like the cherished Arian ideal. Hitler himself reminded me of a southern European shopkeeper, Goebbels looked like a ladies’ hairdresser and Himmler could have been a Levantine bazaar merchant. Only Goering looked like a Germanic warrior as a fighter pilot in WW1 before he turned into a fat middle aged playboy. Today he would have worn a heavy gold chain with his open shirt, driving a Ferrari coupé.”