Bor, ''Gesprache mit Halder''. Hitler's contempt for the generals was due not least to his aversion for the calculated reluctance to take risks to which the officer corps inclined by temperament and education; he was irritated by arrogant professionalism and ideological reserve. So far as the Army was concerned, he explained that its unfinished tasks were not so much a question 'of professional ability as of the need for glowing professions of National Socialism' (ibid.).