| HITLER IN POLITICS |
How did he start in politics ?
A VENGEFUL MASTER SNITCH
The young Hitler who loved the antisemitic Wagner, the racist
Houston Stewart Chamberlain (opposite picture), and
Lohengrin was not a nice little boy, he never was. He was
rather a little selfish, stubborn rogue, and reluctant to any form
of self-discipline, probably because he always looked at
himself as a great artist and a chief.
A VENGEFUL MASTER SNITCH
The young Hitler who loved the antisemitic Wagner, the racist
Houston Stewart Chamberlain (opposite picture), and
Lohengrin was not a nice little boy, he never was. He was
rather a little selfish, stubborn rogue, and reluctant to any form
of self-discipline, probably because he always looked at
himself as a great artist and a chief.
These traits always irritated his father whom he hated in return and his
teachers who unanimously underlined his stubbornness, his lack of
discipline, his tendency to skip any effort, his fickleness. This state of
mind did not make Hitler a tyran but they just put him in a position to
become one : his constant refusal to go by the rules led him to pretend
he had better ones under his sleeve.
Hitler, a mix of Promoteus and Demiurge
Hitler's main problem was not sexual : it was his incapacity to adapt to the
world and his willingness to substitute another one more conform to his
views and ambitions. It was a fantasies world. As a child, these fantasies
took the form of defiance to adults, to flight or truancy and solitude. A
pighead dreamer, Hitler harbored some qualities of an artist but he cruelly
lacked determination, commitment, real talent, patience and imagination.
Some experts still swear on God that Hitler was overflowing with
imagination. None of his paintings, drawings or watercolors showed such
a trait. At the best, they had an architectural majesty enhanced by third
dimension perspective and great care of details. But still, even in that
case, they were mere reproductions of existing grandiose buildings.
Even his faithful friend, the nice and indulgent August Kubizek got upset
by his inadaptation to the world and by his intolerance vis a vis every
other person around Kubizek. Jealous, exclusive, possessive, Adolf Hitler
could not accept another being in their relationship and looked at this
person as a threat. He even once vented those feelings to Kubizez in no
equivocal terms. It was as though Kubizek could have only one friend:
Adolf.
With Hitler or against him, period
With hindsight, it is easy to say that for Hitler things were simple-mindedly
unequivocal: you were WITH him or AGAINST him. It is probably this state
of mind that explains partially his lack of interest in women. Was Hitler
afraid to be betrayed or cuckolded before even to engage himself into a
relationship with a woman? Furthermore if he was monorchid as Russian
forensics established, the fear of being ridiculed might have played a
role: being eventually assigned into the category O.B.O (one ball only)
may have kept him away from womanizing. Adolescents are always afraid
to look less well endowed than some of their more successful friends.
While in Vienna, Hitler was not interested in painting, he said later in Mein
Kampf : painting was only a mean of surviving in a city he hated. Painting
was a job. His real goal was to pursue his self-education and to this end
he spent long hours in Vienna reading at cafe's tables, going to concerts
or endlessly arguing about everything with his companions of misery.
Some critics have sometimes pointed out that he lacked a
maitre-a-penser (mentor) to train him well and hard; a sort of model. I
deeply doubt it : firstly, he had with Georg von Schönerer a political Guru
who helped him to set out his racial and pan-German ideas and he
profusely acknowledged it in Mein Kampf. Secondly, Hitler was inspired by
men like the Viennese mayor, Karl Lüger, a notorious anti-semite, or by
Guido (von) List (1), an anti-semite lunatic, but he was not made of that
ilk who accepts to be taught by a master. He knew better. He was a
master-piece himself and was only interested in showing it to the world. All
what he did during his Viennese years was, like a chicken, to peck here
and there only what interested him and fit or matched his pre-existing
prejudices, conceptions or values.
Borrowed ideas a la sauce Hitler
In November 1918, Hitler was still drafted and got the order to rejoin the
auxiliary battalion of his Bavarian regiment. On his way through Berlin, he
came across the incredibly rebellious and disorganized state of the city
which was governed by an Executive committee of Workers and Soldiers
(Soviet). It had already promulgated a corps of social reforms and more
liberal laws : 8 hours working day, family allowances, censorhip abolition,
political prisoners release. Although he was favorable to the spirit of some
of these reforms, Hitler was extremely leery of the revolutionaries who
inspired them. For him, the Committee was nothing but a bunch of
Bolsheviks who betrayed himself and his comrades at the front. Germany
was in chaos: under the hot breath of revolution, King Ludwig III of
Bavaria simply packed his bags and left!
The King of Wurtemberg humbly pleaded that no red flag should fly over
his palace after his departure! This was the comic opera of the revolution.
The more serious part was taking place in the forest of Compiegne where
the Allies demanded that the German military immediately surrender the
30,000 machine guns in its possession.
Testing political soundness
To get rid of all communist influences within his rank and file, the
Reichswehr had set up an Investigation Bureau whose job was to monitor
subversive political activities and infiltrate workers organizations.
Assigned to this Bureau, Hitler remained a soldier and was given the job
of testing every man's political soundness. He was specially fit for this job
on account of his political acumen and his love of subordination which he
took seriously down to the smallest details: "To respect one's superior
officers, never to contradict, to submit blindly", that was his ideal, as he
once declared. Thus he rapidly showed that he was a good judge of men
and stepped gleefully in the boots of those self-proclaimed patriots who
accused Marxists and Jews, Reds and War profiteers, to be responsible
of the defeat. Everywhere around him, Hitler was seeing Jews in power:
Kurt Eisner in Munich, Rosa Luxembourg in Berlin, Bela Kun in Budapest,
Trotstky, Zinoviev and Kamenev in Moscow. Not to mention Russian
controlled Jewish agitators like Levien, Alexrod and Léviné-Niessen
committed to throw down any non-communist government and impose a
Soviet regime in Bavaria and Germany.
In response to this explosion of Jewry, his new job was a solace. He was
given a special training by an instructor named Karl Alexander von Muller,
a conservative with Extreme Right views whom he appreciated immensely
and reciprocally. Eventually. Von Muller asked Hitler to give anti-marxist
propaganda courses in a Munich regiment. Hitler gladly accepted and
discovered by the same way that he was a very good orator. This time,
people were listening to him whereas they were rather bored by him when
he was a child and an adolescent in Vienna. However he was not
successful with everybody and many considered he was a dirty spy.
One day, a certain Herr Thiele came to him and looking at him right into
the eyes asked blank point: "Tell me, would anybody have shit in your
mind and forgot to flush the water?" Hitler did not reply and left the
spot.
But this opposition within some circles did not impair his abilities to
denounce and to take his load of the political cleansing of Germany: in
the barracks where Hitler was living with a number of "Red soldiers,"
apparently in complete harmony, the "Whites" one day appeared. Every
tenth man of the "Reds" was stood against the wall and shot. Hitler had
been separated from the rest before the executions began. The "Whites"
had taking good care of their informer.
The infamous Versailles treaty
In July 1919, some days after the Versailles treaty signature, his
Commanding Officer sent him to a mission speciale in an ex-POWs camp.
Those men had recently come back from France, totally disenchanted
and embittered, ready to fall into the Marxist heresy. Assigned to the
mission within a unit called Detachment for the Truth, this team of
propagandists had the job to transform this disillusioned men into
anti-socialist patriots. Not an easy task. But Hitler made it: he offered to
these men the scapegoats they needed to alievate their frustrations, alias
Jews, Marxists, the Versailles treaty, profiteers of the rear, all
amalgamated into one or two categories baptized on the urge of the
moment, criminals of November, judeo-marxist plots or the Versaillaise
shame. Hitler was not into subtlety or nuances, he was just doing what he
always did best: spitting out his hatred and his grudge. But his superiors
started to consider him as a born orator and a legend was born.
But eventually the snitch outfoxed his masters. During one of his odious
missions of espionnage, he attended the meeting set by a minuscule
organization called Deutsche Arbeiter Partei (DPA) - German Workers
Party- founded some weeks earlier by Anton Drexler, a locksmith in Berlin
since 1902. The party was a spin-off from the Political Worker's Circle
created by Rudolf Freiherr von Sebotendorff, itself a spin-off of the
esoteric Thule Society created in 1918 by Rudolf von Sebottendorff. The
party then counted less than 50 members and its program was a melting
pot hastily assembled of socialism, nationalism and anti-semitism. At the
end of the meeting, he stood up and started to blame the previous
speaker who had vividly argued for a separation between Bavaria and the
Reich. He was so convincing that Drexler who was in high need of talents
and members whispered in the ear of his assistant "My, he's got the gift of
the gab. We could use him" and eventually approached him and asked to
join. Drexler gave him also a tiny party brochure with a adhesion bulletin.
Breach of military conduct
Little impressed Hitler went back to his regiment and reported to his
superiors. Some days later, he found in his mail a card of the party: he
was member #54 (2). He wondered what to do with this to his boss who,
after consulting even the prestigious Gal. Ludendorff, gave Hitler the
order to join the party. It was in total contradiction with all existing military
rules or habits of the Reischwehr: no member of the armies should be
member of a political organization. The motivation behind this breach of
military conduct was simple: Ludendorff was convinced that Germany
recovery could not be assured without the participation of the working
classes. He was right as Hitler proved later and his ideas were used later
by the NSDAP.
In fall 1919, two events are going to change Hitler's life. First, he met
Dietrich Eckart. Most biographers have underestimated the influence that
Eckart exerted on Hitler. He was the wealthy publisher and editor-in-chief
of an anti-Semitic journal which he called In Plain German. Eckart was
also a committed occultist and a master of magic. As an initiate, Eckart
belonged to the inner circle of the Thule society as well as other esoteric
orders. There can be no doubt that Eckart - who had been alerted to
Hitler by other Thulists - trained Hitler in techniques of self confidence,
self projection, persuasive oratory, body language and discursive
sophistry. With these tools, in a short period of time he was able to move
the obscure workers party from the club and beer hall atmosphere to a
mass movement. The emotion charged lay speaker became an expert
orator, capable of mesmerizing a vast audience.
Then, second event, Hitler accepted the DAP card and started to attend
his meetings. But the fledgling politician was not long to get caught at the
game and he very easily took over the party to the astonishment of
Drexler: in the next few weeks Hitler brought several members of the army
into the party, including one of his commanding officers, Captain Ernst
Roehm. The arrival of Roehm was an important development as he had
access to the army political fund and was able to transfer some of the
money into the DAP. Hitler successfully persuaded Drexler that the DAP
should change its name to the Nazional Socialist Deutsche Arbeit Partei
(NSDAP or Nazi). In February 1920, Hitler and Drexler published its first
programme which became known as the "25 Points". In the programme
the party refused to accept the terms of the Versailles Treaty. (3)
The real meaning of Entfernung
The last mission of Corporal Hitler was to carry a survey on the jewish
threat (sic). He concluded his study of the jewish world by those prophetic
words: an anti-semitic program should start with attempts to legalize the
destitution of some benefits for the Jews under the pretext that they are
part of a foreign race. But the ultimate goal should be to arrive to a
definitive entfernung of the Jews."
After the war, a polemic rised about the meaning of the word: literally
entfernung means removal and many exegetes of the IIIrd Reich
concluded that Hitler then meant elimination or amputation. The root of
the word Entfernung is -fern meaning distance or moving away. So the
question is still opened.
Whatever is the correct interpretation of Hitler's first public views about
the Jews, it is now evident that his entry into politics was initiated,
encouraged and supported by the Military. It is as well not deniable that
his talent to sneak, spy, report and denounce was cultivated by the same
army then determined to extirpate the "red threat" from the streets of
Germany and the minds of the Germans. Then it is not a small wonder if,
some twelve years later, the Reichswehr and the Supreme Court of
Justice will swear an oath of total and unconditional allegiance to a man
who had so well served his Superiors and in the process so subserviently
obeyed orders which were intrinsically contrary to the republican legality
of Weimar. The army and the Judiciary themselves had introduced the
poison into the German body. It will bring the nation to her death.
(1) The real name of Guido von List was Guido List; he adopted the von
when he decided that Aryan people should distinct themselves from
non-aryans by adding the particule
(2) In Mein Kampf, Hitler pretended that he was card member #7
(3) Anton Drexler left the NSDAP in 1923 and was a forgotten figure by
the time he died in Munich on 24th February 1942.He was not a match for
Hitler.
teachers who unanimously underlined his stubbornness, his lack of
discipline, his tendency to skip any effort, his fickleness. This state of
mind did not make Hitler a tyran but they just put him in a position to
become one : his constant refusal to go by the rules led him to pretend
he had better ones under his sleeve.
Hitler, a mix of Promoteus and Demiurge
Hitler's main problem was not sexual : it was his incapacity to adapt to the
world and his willingness to substitute another one more conform to his
views and ambitions. It was a fantasies world. As a child, these fantasies
took the form of defiance to adults, to flight or truancy and solitude. A
pighead dreamer, Hitler harbored some qualities of an artist but he cruelly
lacked determination, commitment, real talent, patience and imagination.
Some experts still swear on God that Hitler was overflowing with
imagination. None of his paintings, drawings or watercolors showed such
a trait. At the best, they had an architectural majesty enhanced by third
dimension perspective and great care of details. But still, even in that
case, they were mere reproductions of existing grandiose buildings.
Even his faithful friend, the nice and indulgent August Kubizek got upset
by his inadaptation to the world and by his intolerance vis a vis every
other person around Kubizek. Jealous, exclusive, possessive, Adolf Hitler
could not accept another being in their relationship and looked at this
person as a threat. He even once vented those feelings to Kubizez in no
equivocal terms. It was as though Kubizek could have only one friend:
Adolf.
With Hitler or against him, period
With hindsight, it is easy to say that for Hitler things were simple-mindedly
unequivocal: you were WITH him or AGAINST him. It is probably this state
of mind that explains partially his lack of interest in women. Was Hitler
afraid to be betrayed or cuckolded before even to engage himself into a
relationship with a woman? Furthermore if he was monorchid as Russian
forensics established, the fear of being ridiculed might have played a
role: being eventually assigned into the category O.B.O (one ball only)
may have kept him away from womanizing. Adolescents are always afraid
to look less well endowed than some of their more successful friends.
While in Vienna, Hitler was not interested in painting, he said later in Mein
Kampf : painting was only a mean of surviving in a city he hated. Painting
was a job. His real goal was to pursue his self-education and to this end
he spent long hours in Vienna reading at cafe's tables, going to concerts
or endlessly arguing about everything with his companions of misery.
Some critics have sometimes pointed out that he lacked a
maitre-a-penser (mentor) to train him well and hard; a sort of model. I
deeply doubt it : firstly, he had with Georg von Schönerer a political Guru
who helped him to set out his racial and pan-German ideas and he
profusely acknowledged it in Mein Kampf. Secondly, Hitler was inspired by
men like the Viennese mayor, Karl Lüger, a notorious anti-semite, or by
Guido (von) List (1), an anti-semite lunatic, but he was not made of that
ilk who accepts to be taught by a master. He knew better. He was a
master-piece himself and was only interested in showing it to the world. All
what he did during his Viennese years was, like a chicken, to peck here
and there only what interested him and fit or matched his pre-existing
prejudices, conceptions or values.
Borrowed ideas a la sauce Hitler
In November 1918, Hitler was still drafted and got the order to rejoin the
auxiliary battalion of his Bavarian regiment. On his way through Berlin, he
came across the incredibly rebellious and disorganized state of the city
which was governed by an Executive committee of Workers and Soldiers
(Soviet). It had already promulgated a corps of social reforms and more
liberal laws : 8 hours working day, family allowances, censorhip abolition,
political prisoners release. Although he was favorable to the spirit of some
of these reforms, Hitler was extremely leery of the revolutionaries who
inspired them. For him, the Committee was nothing but a bunch of
Bolsheviks who betrayed himself and his comrades at the front. Germany
was in chaos: under the hot breath of revolution, King Ludwig III of
Bavaria simply packed his bags and left!
The King of Wurtemberg humbly pleaded that no red flag should fly over
his palace after his departure! This was the comic opera of the revolution.
The more serious part was taking place in the forest of Compiegne where
the Allies demanded that the German military immediately surrender the
30,000 machine guns in its possession.
Testing political soundness
To get rid of all communist influences within his rank and file, the
Reichswehr had set up an Investigation Bureau whose job was to monitor
subversive political activities and infiltrate workers organizations.
Assigned to this Bureau, Hitler remained a soldier and was given the job
of testing every man's political soundness. He was specially fit for this job
on account of his political acumen and his love of subordination which he
took seriously down to the smallest details: "To respect one's superior
officers, never to contradict, to submit blindly", that was his ideal, as he
once declared. Thus he rapidly showed that he was a good judge of men
and stepped gleefully in the boots of those self-proclaimed patriots who
accused Marxists and Jews, Reds and War profiteers, to be responsible
of the defeat. Everywhere around him, Hitler was seeing Jews in power:
Kurt Eisner in Munich, Rosa Luxembourg in Berlin, Bela Kun in Budapest,
Trotstky, Zinoviev and Kamenev in Moscow. Not to mention Russian
controlled Jewish agitators like Levien, Alexrod and Léviné-Niessen
committed to throw down any non-communist government and impose a
Soviet regime in Bavaria and Germany.
In response to this explosion of Jewry, his new job was a solace. He was
given a special training by an instructor named Karl Alexander von Muller,
a conservative with Extreme Right views whom he appreciated immensely
and reciprocally. Eventually. Von Muller asked Hitler to give anti-marxist
propaganda courses in a Munich regiment. Hitler gladly accepted and
discovered by the same way that he was a very good orator. This time,
people were listening to him whereas they were rather bored by him when
he was a child and an adolescent in Vienna. However he was not
successful with everybody and many considered he was a dirty spy.
One day, a certain Herr Thiele came to him and looking at him right into
the eyes asked blank point: "Tell me, would anybody have shit in your
mind and forgot to flush the water?" Hitler did not reply and left the
spot.
But this opposition within some circles did not impair his abilities to
denounce and to take his load of the political cleansing of Germany: in
the barracks where Hitler was living with a number of "Red soldiers,"
apparently in complete harmony, the "Whites" one day appeared. Every
tenth man of the "Reds" was stood against the wall and shot. Hitler had
been separated from the rest before the executions began. The "Whites"
had taking good care of their informer.
The infamous Versailles treaty
In July 1919, some days after the Versailles treaty signature, his
Commanding Officer sent him to a mission speciale in an ex-POWs camp.
Those men had recently come back from France, totally disenchanted
and embittered, ready to fall into the Marxist heresy. Assigned to the
mission within a unit called Detachment for the Truth, this team of
propagandists had the job to transform this disillusioned men into
anti-socialist patriots. Not an easy task. But Hitler made it: he offered to
these men the scapegoats they needed to alievate their frustrations, alias
Jews, Marxists, the Versailles treaty, profiteers of the rear, all
amalgamated into one or two categories baptized on the urge of the
moment, criminals of November, judeo-marxist plots or the Versaillaise
shame. Hitler was not into subtlety or nuances, he was just doing what he
always did best: spitting out his hatred and his grudge. But his superiors
started to consider him as a born orator and a legend was born.
But eventually the snitch outfoxed his masters. During one of his odious
missions of espionnage, he attended the meeting set by a minuscule
organization called Deutsche Arbeiter Partei (DPA) - German Workers
Party- founded some weeks earlier by Anton Drexler, a locksmith in Berlin
since 1902. The party was a spin-off from the Political Worker's Circle
created by Rudolf Freiherr von Sebotendorff, itself a spin-off of the
esoteric Thule Society created in 1918 by Rudolf von Sebottendorff. The
party then counted less than 50 members and its program was a melting
pot hastily assembled of socialism, nationalism and anti-semitism. At the
end of the meeting, he stood up and started to blame the previous
speaker who had vividly argued for a separation between Bavaria and the
Reich. He was so convincing that Drexler who was in high need of talents
and members whispered in the ear of his assistant "My, he's got the gift of
the gab. We could use him" and eventually approached him and asked to
join. Drexler gave him also a tiny party brochure with a adhesion bulletin.
Breach of military conduct
Little impressed Hitler went back to his regiment and reported to his
superiors. Some days later, he found in his mail a card of the party: he
was member #54 (2). He wondered what to do with this to his boss who,
after consulting even the prestigious Gal. Ludendorff, gave Hitler the
order to join the party. It was in total contradiction with all existing military
rules or habits of the Reischwehr: no member of the armies should be
member of a political organization. The motivation behind this breach of
military conduct was simple: Ludendorff was convinced that Germany
recovery could not be assured without the participation of the working
classes. He was right as Hitler proved later and his ideas were used later
by the NSDAP.
In fall 1919, two events are going to change Hitler's life. First, he met
Dietrich Eckart. Most biographers have underestimated the influence that
Eckart exerted on Hitler. He was the wealthy publisher and editor-in-chief
of an anti-Semitic journal which he called In Plain German. Eckart was
also a committed occultist and a master of magic. As an initiate, Eckart
belonged to the inner circle of the Thule society as well as other esoteric
orders. There can be no doubt that Eckart - who had been alerted to
Hitler by other Thulists - trained Hitler in techniques of self confidence,
self projection, persuasive oratory, body language and discursive
sophistry. With these tools, in a short period of time he was able to move
the obscure workers party from the club and beer hall atmosphere to a
mass movement. The emotion charged lay speaker became an expert
orator, capable of mesmerizing a vast audience.
Then, second event, Hitler accepted the DAP card and started to attend
his meetings. But the fledgling politician was not long to get caught at the
game and he very easily took over the party to the astonishment of
Drexler: in the next few weeks Hitler brought several members of the army
into the party, including one of his commanding officers, Captain Ernst
Roehm. The arrival of Roehm was an important development as he had
access to the army political fund and was able to transfer some of the
money into the DAP. Hitler successfully persuaded Drexler that the DAP
should change its name to the Nazional Socialist Deutsche Arbeit Partei
(NSDAP or Nazi). In February 1920, Hitler and Drexler published its first
programme which became known as the "25 Points". In the programme
the party refused to accept the terms of the Versailles Treaty. (3)
The real meaning of Entfernung
The last mission of Corporal Hitler was to carry a survey on the jewish
threat (sic). He concluded his study of the jewish world by those prophetic
words: an anti-semitic program should start with attempts to legalize the
destitution of some benefits for the Jews under the pretext that they are
part of a foreign race. But the ultimate goal should be to arrive to a
definitive entfernung of the Jews."
After the war, a polemic rised about the meaning of the word: literally
entfernung means removal and many exegetes of the IIIrd Reich
concluded that Hitler then meant elimination or amputation. The root of
the word Entfernung is -fern meaning distance or moving away. So the
question is still opened.
Whatever is the correct interpretation of Hitler's first public views about
the Jews, it is now evident that his entry into politics was initiated,
encouraged and supported by the Military. It is as well not deniable that
his talent to sneak, spy, report and denounce was cultivated by the same
army then determined to extirpate the "red threat" from the streets of
Germany and the minds of the Germans. Then it is not a small wonder if,
some twelve years later, the Reichswehr and the Supreme Court of
Justice will swear an oath of total and unconditional allegiance to a man
who had so well served his Superiors and in the process so subserviently
obeyed orders which were intrinsically contrary to the republican legality
of Weimar. The army and the Judiciary themselves had introduced the
poison into the German body. It will bring the nation to her death.
(1) The real name of Guido von List was Guido List; he adopted the von
when he decided that Aryan people should distinct themselves from
non-aryans by adding the particule
(2) In Mein Kampf, Hitler pretended that he was card member #7
(3) Anton Drexler left the NSDAP in 1923 and was a forgotten figure by
the time he died in Munich on 24th February 1942.He was not a match for
Hitler.
| Hitler (right with his dog Fuchs) betrayed his comrades at the front who had "red sympathies" at the end of WW1. |
| Eckart, failed dramaturgist, had a strong infuence on Hitler |
| Mein Kampf was a huge success in Germany and it is still widely read in Muslim countries |
The crimes of the
Bolsheviks in Russia
inflamed the German
patriots like Hitler who
were ready to anything to
prevent their repetition
in Germany
Bolsheviks in Russia
inflamed the German
patriots like Hitler who
were ready to anything to
prevent their repetition
in Germany
To start his career of
snitch Hitler had all the
encouragements he
needed from the military
and particularly in the first
years of his political
activity from General
Ludendorf, hero of WW1
snitch Hitler had all the
encouragements he
needed from the military
and particularly in the first
years of his political
activity from General
Ludendorf, hero of WW1
| The esoteric Thule society was originally named Studiengruppe für germanisches Altertum (Study Group for German Antiquity), but it soon started to disseminate anti-republican and anti-Semitic propaganda. |
| At Versailles, Lloyd George and Clemenceau were not magnanimous to the defeated "Boches" |
| However, Hitler's little interest for women in his young age did not stem only from his fears of venereal diseases, microbes or his own sexual deformities. Hitler's personality is complex and full of contradictions, else Nazism would have been stillborn. But one thing is sure: staying away from the wild and hot Viennese experiments of his age, teenager Hitler started brooding and nursing weird ideas that were on top of everything themselves nourished by his phobias, his hatreds and his ambitions. A nice mix indeed... |
This collection of borrowed ideas and personal thoughts were assembled
into a doctrine formulated in a book written in jail and pompously titled Mein
Kampf (My combat, 1923-24). The irony of a combat which had so far never
been fought totally escaped his contemporaries: in 1923, Hitler was 34
years old and had done nothing in his life except the runner during four
years between the front and the rear. Big deal ! This world belongs to bold
men and since 1919, Hitler delved into politics and realized that he had a
rare and fascinating oratory talent. More people around him noticed it too.
into a doctrine formulated in a book written in jail and pompously titled Mein
Kampf (My combat, 1923-24). The irony of a combat which had so far never
been fought totally escaped his contemporaries: in 1923, Hitler was 34
years old and had done nothing in his life except the runner during four
years between the front and the rear. Big deal ! This world belongs to bold
men and since 1919, Hitler delved into politics and realized that he had a
rare and fascinating oratory talent. More people around him noticed it too.
When the Lance-Corporal got at last to his unit in
Turkenstrasse in Munich, he found the same rebellious state
of mind and the same anarchy. No discipline, the place was a
complete mess: Hitler who was reticent to discipline as a child
had become a soldier of law and order, complacent to
authority and ready to serve. The worst is that old soldiers
from the front like himself, in spite of all their decorations, did
not anymore gained or enjoyed any respect. It was the last
straw. Deeply disgusted (sic), Hitler then decided he would not
stay and he applied for a different assignment. He was then
assigned as a guard to a POWs camp in the city of Traustein,
60 miles away from Munich where his fate met him and
transformed the simple Lance-Corporal into the future
Supremer Leader of old Germany.
Turkenstrasse in Munich, he found the same rebellious state
of mind and the same anarchy. No discipline, the place was a
complete mess: Hitler who was reticent to discipline as a child
had become a soldier of law and order, complacent to
authority and ready to serve. The worst is that old soldiers
from the front like himself, in spite of all their decorations, did
not anymore gained or enjoyed any respect. It was the last
straw. Deeply disgusted (sic), Hitler then decided he would not
stay and he applied for a different assignment. He was then
assigned as a guard to a POWs camp in the city of Traustein,
60 miles away from Munich where his fate met him and
transformed the simple Lance-Corporal into the future
Supremer Leader of old Germany.
| The mere view of the "red flag" made Hitler hysterical |
Later he was put in charge of an other type of
investigation: determining who were the leaders of
extremist organizations in Munich, reporting about
their ideas and their conversations private and public,
partaking into the repression of their movements.
That maybe some of these leaders might have been
ex-comrades at the front does not seem to have been
a problem for Adolf-the-snitch.
investigation: determining who were the leaders of
extremist organizations in Munich, reporting about
their ideas and their conversations private and public,
partaking into the repression of their movements.
That maybe some of these leaders might have been
ex-comrades at the front does not seem to have been
a problem for Adolf-the-snitch.
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