[PAR35]

not a take charge type, who honestly wanted to go along to get along. And I don't think he appreciated the real motives of the folks in charge of the national [organzation].
Events overtook and overwhelmed him, and I really think that when the ground was cut from under him he had no idea what to do.

Just to clarify, you are talking about the Bishop, not a middle manager in the SS? Because with a few minor modifications, the description would fit either.

[AnAmericanMother]

I can't agree re the SS - they didn't HAVE any middle managers, they all knew perfectly well what they were up to.

Maybe some Staatsbeamt functionary in some little country town (the Diocese of Virginia isn't all that big really), overly impressed by some bigwigs from Berlin.

[AnAmericanMother]

And, oh yeah, I call Godwin’s Law. The comparison is ridiculuous in this case.