As Taine was translated into German, Hitler is likely, directly or indirectly to have studied Napoleon.

Hitler's "fuehrerprincip" a principle which gave the Nazi society its terrible efficiency was probably the result.

(SR.)] [Footnote 6137: Decree of March 20, 1808, articles 40-46.] [Footnote 6138: For example, act of March 31, 1812, On leaves of absence .-- Cf.

the regulations of April 8, 1810, for the "Ecole de la Maternite," titres ix, x and xi).

In this strict and special instance we see plainly what Napoleon meant by "the police" of a school.] [Footnote 6139: Pelet de la Lozere, Ibid.] [Footnote 6140: It seems to me probable that an aspiring revolutionary like Hitler, Lenin, Stalin or Trotsky) would attempt to copy Napoleon's once he had successfully taken power inside first the party and later the state.