Chapter 46 Chapter 8 Hitler's Secret Writings (1)

1925-1928 On New Year's Eve, Hoffmann invited Hitler to celebrate New Year's Eve at his home.Hitler refused.After the party started, a girl asked the photographer to try calling the Führer again.To Hoffmann's surprise, Hitler agreed to come, "but only for half an hour." People waited anxiously for his arrival, especially the female guests, because none of them had seen him.Sure enough, I was not disappointed. “He was very smart in his gown,” Hoffman wrote. “His hair, then, not yet falling over his forehead, though not thick, added to his charm.” The ladies especially appreciated his moustache .

A beautiful girl led Hitler to the mistletoe tree and kissed him (according to the British custom, the mistletoe tree is used as a Christmas decoration, and on Christmas Day, anyone who walks under the mistletoe tree can have a kiss with him. She kisses—annotation). "I will never forget the panic and terror on Hitler's face! This coquettish girl also felt that she was too careless, so she felt uncomfortable all over her body and dared not say a word. He was dumbfounded, like a child, helpless, biting Lips, suppressing anger. As soon as he arrived, the already somewhat reserved atmosphere in the room immediately cooled down." Hoffman tried to laugh it off and liven up the atmosphere. "It's a good thing it didn't happen to the older guests. But, Herr Hitler, you'll have good luck with the ladies!" This remark did not please Hitler.So, he bid farewell to everyone politely and coldly.

Landsberg has lived in semi-solitude since his release from prison.He found it difficult to fit in, both politically and socially.He made up his mind to limit his activities to the scope of behind-the-scenes discussions with Esser and Bona, refused to disclose his new plans, and tried his best to avoid meeting with those who worshiped him who came to ask for advice and blessings.At the same time, he avoided the mistake of pouring cold water on ordinary followers.Thus his silence made them all the more eager to hear his first speech. In order to more quickly become acquainted with the recent political and economic upheaval, he needed concentration and freedom from distractions.In France, the ruling group that had demanded an occupation of the Ruhr has been replaced by a more compromising government.Regarding the issue of war reparations, not long ago, the Allies passed a resolution agreeing to allow Germany to pay compensation fairly.On the economic front, due to the stabilization of the mark, the economy will no longer be in rapid chaos.The dual prospect of a peaceful settlement with France and economic recovery meant that Hitler had been stripped of his political capital.

On the other hand, society has changed, offering him the opportunity to re-enter politics across the country.The rapid development of technology, urbanization, population dispersal, and industrialization over the past decade have shattered the middle class.Small traders, self-reliant businessmen and farmers are also in precarity.During inflation, it is the middle class that suffers the most.These people are superior and richer than the working class, but their wealth is wiped out along with their savings and capital.Many blame the Reds and Jews for their misfortune, who are turning their pain into hatred.This made Hitler's anti-Semitism easier to accept.

The new year brought him many opportunities and difficulties.His political future depends on his ability to deal with these two.As a first act, on January 4, 1925, he gestured for a truce with the new Bavarian chancellor, Heinrich Herder.He talked to Herder alone for half an hour, pledging his loyalty to the new government and offering to cooperate with him against the Reds.He pledged to use only legal means in future political struggles.He made such a good impression on Herder that Herder said that night, "The beast is under control. We can loosen the chain." Alfred Rosenberg was not one of the few people who regularly accompanied Hitler during this period of preparation and isolation.He knew that Hitler, Esser, Oman, Hoffmann, Hanf Stangel and others often drove to the countryside together.He resented being excluded from this select circle. "He counted on me, but didn't like me," Rosenberg complained later.One is because of anger, and the other is to express concern about the split in the party.Rosenberg urged his friend Ludek to write an article warning that unless the mutual attacks were stopped immediately, the party would perish.

After sending Hitler a copy of the article, Ludek begged to see Hitler.The interview took place in the cottage on the Rue Thièch.After attacking Ludendorff and then talking about the Jews, Hitler turned to the question of the article.He said it was impossible for Ludek to know the details of the uprising or the details of the trial because he was abroad.He scoffs at Rosenberg's attempts to drive a wedge between him and Esser ("That guy has more politics in his fingertips than a bunch of their accusers in their ass").Ludek was then snarkyly advised to tell Rosenberg, "Go back and stop playing tricks on injured innocents."

On the surface, Hitler seemed to reject Ludek's exhortations to stop the party squabbles.In fact, he accepted it—he wanted to do it his own way.The determination to heal the party's wounds, and his assurances to Chancellor Herder, soon paid off. On February 16, the Bavarian government lifted the state of emergency and lifted restrictions on the Nazi party. Ten days later, the "People's Observer" appeared on newsstands again.Hitler wrote a lengthy editorial entitled "A New Beginning."He promised that thereafter he would act in accordance with the organization and policy, and would never listen to personal or religious differences, and called on the various factions of the people in the party to make peace and stop quarreling.They must unite to defeat a common enemy, Jewish Marxism, he said.This was the new Adolf Hitler in action; determined to act legally and willing to compromise for the sake of party unity.At the same time, he wanted to run the party in his own way.While he had pledged to operate within the confines of the government, he did not ease the fight against his arch-enemies, the Jews.

The next day, February 27, Hitler publicly returned to politics.He attended a party meeting at Bergbraukeller, where he had started the uprising.He said that he was scheduled to give a speech at 8:00 p.m.; but starting in the afternoon, queues began to line up in front of the beer hall.When the police closed the doors at 6:00 p.m., the hall was packed with 4,000 spectators, and 1,000 people were unable to enter the hall.National Socialists from all over the country came - only three important figures were coming: Roehm, Strassel and Rosenberg. "I don't want to take part in this farce," Rosenberg said to Ludek that afternoon. Shaking the hand of someone who feels they have abandoned him.

The impassioned mood in the hall was almost the same as it was on the eve of the uprising.As Hitler walked down the aisle to the podium, enthusiastic followers waved beer bottles, cheered him and hugged each other.He looked beyond the party leaders and appealed to the vast number of members in the distance.His words were fierce, but did not offend either party.He did not exhaustively list who was right and who was wrong in the 1924 quarrel; he deliberately kept his mouth shut.He called Ludendorff "the most loyal and selfless friend of the movement" and urged those "still leaning toward the old National Socialist Party" to unite under the swastika and smash their arch-enemies: Marxism and the Jews.The former is an appeal to revolutionaries like Esser, the latter to Drexler and more conservative folk followers.

After issuing a stirring call for national revitalization ("It is madness to think that a great nation with a population of 60 to 70 million cannot be destroyed. Once it loses its self-reliance, it will perish."), he put Attention turned to the party cadres sitting in the front row.He does not ask for their loyalty and support, and he does not offer them compromise.He ordered them to leave the party if they did not participate in the extermination of the Jews. "If someone asks me for an offer, I tell him: 'Wait and see, my friend, what I will offer you!' I will not go outside to mobilize the masses. Party comrades, you will Be the judge, if I'm right, fine; if I'm not, I'll hand the party power back into your hands. However, until that time comes, I will lead the movement alone, as long as I take full responsibility , no one can put conditions on me. I unconditionally take responsibility for everything that happened in the movement.”

His rage infected the audience. "Long live!" Shouts suddenly erupted in the hall.Women were weeping; people rushed forward from the back hall, some crawled over the tables and chairs.Enemies who used to be sworn enemies, now like a tide, rushed to the podium to shake hands with each other, and many people burst into tears.Max Ammann shouted: "The rivalry must stop! Everyone for Hitler!" Rudolf Bultmann of the German National Party declared with enthusiasm that his doubts "all evaporated with the Führer's speech." Bultmann's title of "Führer" is still used in private; it speaks to the magnitude of Hitler's success.Thereafter, he will become the public head of state.Not only did he unify the Nazi Party, but he also established the party's leadership principle: one man ruled, no doubts allowed. Exhausted, Hitler left Munich that night with Winifred Wagner.He stayed one night at her house with some drummers.Because it is a close place, the children didn't know about it until many years later. The day after Hitler's comeback, a major political event took place in Germany.In the national elections triggered by Ebert's death, the 78-year-old Field Marshal von Hindenburg was elected the republic's second president.It is clear that the hero of the right does not sympathize with the republic, and while trying to maintain neutrality, he does not vigorously strengthen the republic.Cabinet crises are still frequent, and often over trivial matters.For example, the conservatives proposed to provide high financial compensation to the Hohenzollern family, which was strongly opposed by the socialists, but was passed; and then proposed a new bill to provide compensation to the deposed princes and nobles.The socialists proposed a referendum, but the bill passed.Even the question of what color the German flag should be led to a cabinet crisis.Chancellor Hans Luther was forced to resign for such a trivial matter. It seemed inevitable that changes in domestic politics would provide new impetus to Hitler's expansion of power.But his political move to return to the beer hall was too sudden and too successful for the Bavarian government to tolerate.It only proved how dangerous his eloquence was to Bavaria.He breathed new life into the party, but too quickly and too far.In this way, the Bavarian State Police prohibited Hitler from inciting the audience in the Bergbrau tavern with fierce words "not according to the standards of the middle class, but against Marxism and the Jews by stepping on dead bodies" Addresses were delivered at five mass rallies held at the beginning of the month. Hitler himself protested against this. "If you want to fight with us, you might as well try it." He said to the police station officials: "Whoever attacks us will be stabbed to pieces. I want to lead the German people to fight for freedom, and use force if there is no peaceful way." , but it must be successful. I will say this emphatically to the police detectives, so that no gossip will go around." These words, uttered by a person who was sworn out of prison, carry a lot of weight; the result is that, He was banned from speaking throughout Bavaria.Public Nazi rallies are fine, but not as long as there are Führer speeches.Soon the ban was extended to almost every state in Germany; thus, Hitler was deprived of his main political weapon.He was forced to move the pulpit to the home of a wealthy supporter.According to Heinz Haushofer—his father took him to a certain salon in Munich—Hitler spoke as if he were in the Crown Circus, except that he spoke sitting down. "Very scary...yelling and yelling and flailing his arms. No one interrupted him. He talked and talked like a record for an hour or an hour-and-a-half until he was exhausted... . . . and he was out of breath. And when he sat down, he was a normal guy again, a good guy . The ban allowed Hitler to focus his energies on rebuilding the party.He worked tirelessly, attending meeting after meeting, admonishing people incessantly, just as he did at Bergbraukeller.His grassroots skills—shaking men's hands, kissing women's hands, talking intimately with countless people—connected him with party members across the city.In this way, he not only succeeded in increasing his magnetic appeal to ordinary party members, but also completely controlled the party organization.At the same time, Esser and Streicher also used Hitler's tactics to travel through Bavaria and unite local organizations around the Führer. By the end of March, Hitler had almost complete control of the local organisation.In northern Germany, however, he had to hand over the fate of the party to Gregor and Otto Strassel.Gregor was a brilliant organizer and a gifted orator.As a congressional representative, he can travel by train for free.He pledged his allegiance to Hitler after an inspiring speech at the Bergbrau tavern.However, Otto, a young and promising journalist, has reservations.How long, he thought, could the "secret moon" with Hitler last? As in his incarceration, Hitler was reclusive, making little public appearances, which he made good use of.Aided by two efficient but obscure party operatives, Hitler built a solid party apparatus in his spare time.These two people are Phillip Poehler and Franz Exava Schholtz.Poehler was like an owl and bowed before speaking to Hitler.Although he became the executive secretary of the party, he worried about the details of the work.Schholtz, who used to be an accountant in the Munich City Hall, is now the party cashier and is in charge of finances.When working, he is like an adding and subtracting machine, and he can carry forward the spirit of a miser and calculate carefully.The two were completely subservient to the Führer and became indispensable figures in the party apparatus. Poehler and Schholtz made the internal organization of the party well-organized and extremely efficient, which enabled Hitler to concentrate on studying the party's long-term political strategy, writing articles, and making extensive trips to northern Germany to attend the party's secret meetings in person. Meeting.He also has leisure time to mend broken friendships, counsel bigots, make peace with enemies, and take care of personal issues.He reinstated Rosenberg as editor of the revived Volk-Observer and wrote him a letter praising his integrity and calling him "the most valuable collaborator". A few days later, Hitler wrote another letter, solving a headache for him - deporting him back to Austria.He went straight to the point and asked the Linz authorities to revoke his Austrian citizenship because he wanted to be a German citizen. Three days later, the provincial government of Upper Austria sent him an immigration notice revoking "his allegiance to the Austrian state".For only 7.5 shillings, Hitler was freed from the threat of deportation.Although, he is not a German citizen at this time, so he has no right to vote and cannot hold office.But he believes that he can solve this problem should the need arise. The more pressing issue was the actions of the disobedient and selfish Captain Romm.From the beginning, he intended to turn the SA into his own private army rather than Hitler's political tool.When the head of state was still in prison, he gathered the remnants of the stormtroopers and reorganized an organization called the "Forward Society".Rohm believes that if the "Frontier" is to be brought under the party's jurisdiction, everything that has been done since the uprising will be lost.Therefore, he conveniently submitted a memorandum to Hitler on April 16.He proposed that the "Forward Association" with 30,000 fighters could be used as the basis of the national political organization, but it must be placed under the absolute leadership of Roma.Along with the plea, he mentioned past friendships and swore loyalty to Hitler. Hitler knew early on what a disaster it would be to be dependent on an organization he could not control.He was determined to turn the new stormtrooper into his own tool, and immediately asked the "forward society" to accept his leadership immediately.In a blatant exertion of pressure, Rohm submitted his resignation from the Vanguard Council and demanded that the Führer acknowledge his action in writing.Roehm waited for a while, but couldn't wait for Hitler's reply, so he wrote to him again on April 30. "In memory of the beautiful and difficult days we have shared together," he concluded, "I take this opportunity to express my gratitude for your camaraderie and to ask you not to exclude me from your personal Outside the door of friendship.” As there was no reply again, Rohm announced his formal resignation the next day and withdrew from politics.Hitler used the method of silence to force Rohm to become a non-partisan and withdraw from the "Forward Council", while he himself was free to build a rejuvenated SA according to his own goals. Rom is taken aback and emotionally damaged.According to Ludek, Rohm complained a lot. "Although he often did what we suggested and smiled in front of us, he acted as if it was all his own idea, his own invention. I've never seen anyone borrow money as brazenly as he did. Because he is vacillating, indecisive, and often waits for the problem to develop into intolerable and urgent, and then suddenly deal with it at the last minute. The reason is that his actions are not as organized as his thinking and speech Clear and reasonable...Hitler likes to do things in his own way, and if someone firmly opposes, no matter how good the reason, he will be furious. But he didn't understand how people could hate him, and he didn't know that he was deceiving himself and the braggarts around him No one is perfect, though, and he has his share of greatness. Obviously, no one can do it better." A magnanimous nickname "you" was given to a puny corporal It can be said that Roma is in a dilemma between admiration and contempt.