Chapter 21 Chapter 3 "Delirious with Joy" (7)

Bavarians hate Prussians and all that, it's a tradition.Therefore, Munich largely ignored what happened in Weimar.An unknown intellectual leader in Munich, Oswald Spengler, scoffed at the attempts of the Erbert regime to establish democracy throughout Germany. In the spring of 1918, this lonely and impoverished bachelor who was world-weary and misogynistic finally published the first volume of The Decline of the West.Although the book has not yet been published, the book has had an impact throughout Germany. "Like the French in 1789, in misfortune we must go to the end. We need a punishment, compared with which four years of war are nothing." He wrote to a friend, " . . . in the end the terror must develop to such an extent that a dictatorship like that of Napoleon is supposed to be a savior."

Hitler, who thought he was born for politics and must be engaged in politics, was preparing to return to Munich at this time.Due to the imminent closure of the Tronstein prisoner-of-war camp, he was assigned at the same time as Schmidt to the 2nd Infantry Regiment, which was based in Schhobing.Another comrade with the same ideals has already taken root in Munich.The man was Alfred Rosenberg, a rabidly anti-Semitic and anti-Marxist Estonian.He came here via Russia in search of his true home.Like Hitler, he was a painter and architect; like Hitler, he was more Germanic than native German.His purpose in leaving his homeland was to find a homeland for himself.In addition, he was determined to warn his homeland against the Bolshevik terror that had ravaged his homeland, and to fight to save it from Jewish communism.

When he heard that there was a German writer named Eckart who shared many views with him, Rosenberg decided to get acquainted with the writer.Dietrich Eckart—poet, playwright, coffeehouse intellectual—was a tall, burly, bald-headed eccentric who hung out in cafés and saloons, drinking and talking alike.He was the son of the counselor of the King of Bavaria (who had been a patient in a hospital for "crazy nerves"), and thus had the opportunity to penetrate the circle of the old aristocracy. He is eccentric and dissolute, and somewhat genius (his translation of "Noble Jinte" is outstanding and considered to be the standard translation).He is pro-German and anti-Semitic.He published a weekly newspaper at his own expense, with a circulation of 30,000 copies.

Rosenberg showed up in Eckart's room without introduction.Rosenberg was still in the corridor, and Eckart had a deep impression: he was a passionate and extremely serious young man.Rosenberg immediately asked: "Do you have fighters against Jerusalem?" Eckart laughed. "Of course!" Did he write anything?Rosenberg immediately produced an article—an article on the destructive power of Judaism and Bolshevism in Russia.Thus began a relationship between them that would shape Hitler's career.Eckart saw Rosenberg as "a common fighter against Jerusalem".Soon thereafter, Rosenberg's articles on Russia appeared not only in Eckart's own newspaper, but also in the Munich weekly "German Republic".The theme of these articles is that the Jews are the root of all evil in the world; that the World Wars and Red Revolutions were instigated by the Zionists, who are now conspiring with the Freemasons to take over the world.