Nevile Henderson also suspected that the key to Adolf Hitler’s success might be to do with his boundless self-confidence, backed up by his intuitive sense of what to do next. Henderopn, like Dahlerus , never found Hitler charismatic and puzzled throughout his time in Berlin ‘wherein the greatness of Hitler lay, by what means he had succeeded as the undisputed Leader of a great people, and what was – to me- the hidden source of his influence over his followers and their complete subserivence to him’. One answer, Henderson discovered was the Fuhrer’s confidence in his intuition “I constantly asked those in closest touch with Hitler in what his chief quality consisted. I was told almost unanimously, in his Fingerspitzengefuehl (tip of the finger feeling)..
The English equivalent of the German term could be “keeping one’s finger on the pulse.” Although even this deosn’t fully capture the sense of

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