Chapter 48 Chapter 8 Hitler's Secret Writings (3)

Hitler must have understood the dangers of allowing Gregor Strasser full power to organize the Nazi Party in northern Germany; the more successful he was, the more dangerous a political opponent he was.Although anti-Semitic, Strassel was not reactionary. His political philosophy can be traced back to Spengler and socialism at the wartime front, based on the core principle that the leader of the proletariat must be a soldier.He was typical of the left wing of the National Socialist Party, which made him particularly prominent in reorganizing the revolutionary forces.Physically strong and friendly, he was able to mobilize both masses and individuals; so that by the end of that summer he had brought more prosperity to the movement than Hitler had anticipated.In some areas the number of branches has been doubled or even tripled.Much of this was due to Strassel's appeal to the working class and his freedom from the dictatorial leaders in Munich.

At the beginning of September the struggle against the South became public at a party conference in Hagen.The conference was called by Gregor Strassel with the aim of uniting the North and the South against the bureaucratic government in Munich.The conference participants naively hoped that they could wrest the Führer from the reactionary Bavarian advisers to lead Germany forever as a revolutionary people's state.Strassel's program was adopted.Delegates voted for a coalition for organizational and high effectiveness in advocacy work.The delegates also approved the publication of a series of articles setting out programmatic policies—including economic reforms that bordered on State Bolshevism.The editor was a talented 29-year-old Joseph Goebbels.Goebbels replaced the slow-moving Himmler as Strassel's secretary.He was just over five feet tall and weighed just over a hundred pounds.In addition, his tiny body was ravaged by polio, which disfigured one foot.Fortunately, Goebbels had every kind of talent: his prose was fluent;

Goebbels came from a petty-bourgeois Catholic family on the Rhine, stamped with academics rather than family or church.The most important place for forming his character was the University of Munich, the university to which many soldiers who had lost their illusions flocked after the war.He was exempt from military service because of a deformed foot, but his hero was a tall, talented Richard Frisgos—a pacifist and anarchist who The ideals that instilled in Goebbels played an important role in his later life.Frisges also introduced him to Dostoyevsky, whose mysticism also inspired the young Goebbels.

Goebbels was transferred to Heidelberg. In 1921, Goebbels received a doctorate in philosophy and left the area.In the years that followed, he wrote an autobiographical novel called "McKail," several plays, and many lyric poems.To earn a living he worked in a bank, as an inspector on the Cologne Stock Exchange, as a governess, and as an amateur librarian.During this down-and-out period, he parted ways with Frisges because of his distaste for Marxist internationalism.After turning to Popular Socialism, he found a second Frisgus in Hitler (“the personification of our beliefs and ideals”).At the same time, he also had a hot fight with Gregor Strassel.The loyalties of this division and its inevitable end determined the direction in which the Nazi Party developed.

This struggle is further complicated by ideological dilemmas.In many respects, Goebbels was still a revolutionary, and he tried to turn the Communists over to the National Socialists.He was determined to create a theory, a bridge "to bring them together from left to right who are willing to sacrifice themselves." Like Gregor Strassel, he also believed that the party should maintain The cause of the working class, especially the cause of the trade unions.This is the main difference between Hitler and Goebbels.On his next trip north, he hoped to influence Hitler and prove to him that the Communist Party differed from the Nazis in that it was internationalist.

On November 4, the two finally met in Brunswick.Hitler shook Goebbels' hand, much to Goebbels' delight. "Like an old friend," he wrote in his diary: "Those blue eyes are like stars. He is very happy to see me. I feel like I am in heaven." This time I met in person, Goebbels was superstitious in Head start.When the two met again in Plauen a few weeks later, Goebbels' superstition was intensified. "So happy! He greeted me like an old friend. And looked after me. How I love him!" However, in less than 24 hours, Goebbels participated in the meeting of local governors in the north and openly rebelled against the central organization of the party.The purpose of his sending to the north was to assist Strasser in drawing up the party program in order to liberate the Fuehrer from the "reactionary" Munich group and bring him closer to the left.The program called for the nationalization of land, the distribution of large farms to landless peasants, and the nationalization of companies.This program was presented to a two-day council of governors in Hannover on January 24-25, 1926.The meeting was very heated, mainly due to the sudden appearance of Hitler's deputy Gottfried Feder.In Goebbels' view, he was "a servant of capital and interest, a swindler of currency appreciation, and the drafter of the main program of the movement." According to Strassel's brother, these magistrates, except Robert Ley Alone, Yi voted chapter by chapter on the new program.Fidel, who was opposed to everything, finally said: "Neither Hitler nor I will accept this program." He was reminded by the participants that he was only a guest, but he insisted on his views.When he announced that Hitler opposed the Marxist demand for the confiscation of the royal property, calling it a "Jewish deception," he was kicked off the floor.Goebbels jumped to his feet and angrily attacked the Munich leadership.He demanded that Hitler be expelled from the party unless he got rid of their influence.It may seem odd that this ultimatum should come from someone who not long ago said, "How much I love him!" But it may also be the product of "love", because he firmly believes that the bureaucrats in Munich are taking Hitler leading to destruction.

Whatever the case may be, Feder's report on the split conference ultimately got Hitler into action. On Sunday, February 14, he summoned all the party leaders to Bamberg.The representatives from the north who sat at the seat of this secret meeting felt quite uneasy.In terms of numbers, the representatives from the South were overwhelmingly superior, and Hitler dominated the proceedings of the Congress as soon as he stepped on the platform.When he came to Bamberg, he was mentally prepared.He understood what the problems facing the party were, and he knew that his leadership was under threat.Therefore, he stated openly and honestly at the beginning that he was the head of state and the core of the movement.There was no parliamentary debate in the Nazi party, no more democratic procedures.He does not allow secessions to exist.Every local governor and every party member must pledge allegiance to the head of state, and only to the head of state.

He did not attack Strassel or Goebbels.He made no such mistake.Perhaps, his intuition told him that both were loyal to him, and they were just trying to draw him away from Streicher and Ethel and his ilk.His purpose in coming to Bamberg was not to humiliate the northern cadres, but to put them on the right track.He tactfully attacked the left in the language of the left, and then proposed a new concept for both sides of the contradiction as a compromise.He took the party out of political circles and made it part of the myth of a superstitious leader.The party's original program, he said, "is the foundation of our beliefs and ideology. To falsify it would (mean) betray the people who died believing in our ideas." In other words, National Socialism was a religion, Hitler was its Jesus.Hitler, who was crucified to death in front of the Reichstag and resurrected after being released from Landsberg prison, rose again and led the party and the country to achieve the goal of revitalization.

The northern cadres did not expect Hitler's speech to be so sharp, and they were all surprised.Goebbels, who had come to Bamberg thinking he could lure Hitler to the left, now neither endorsed nor debated their position.On the contrary, he had only one choice in the question of party leadership: oppose or accept Hitler as head of state.A repudiation of Hitler would spell the end of the Party, Strassel replied curtly and nervously.He failed.As for Goebbels, apart from shouting a few slogans, he didn't say a word, but wrote in his diary: "My heart aches!" Convinced that it was only a matter of time before Bamberg's wounds healed and that the party would emerge stronger and more united, Hitler set out to find financial assistance. On the last day of February, he was allowed to speak at the "National Club 1919" in the prestigious "Atlantic Hotel" in Hamburg - because this was not a public mass meeting.His words - showing that he had learned a lot in Landsberg - were not aimed at fanatics, but at citizens of Germany.Abandoning the style he had used at Crown Circus, he began with calm exhortations.He said that the reason for Germany's defeat in the Great War was Marxism; the Reds attempted to seize state power, and they still continue to dominate German politics.In less than an hour, he won over an audience not by emotion or demagoguery but by philosophy; not by racism but by patriotism, wealth and prosperity.

When it came to Marxism, however, his style became forceful. "In a struggle, there is always one side that succumbs—either Marxism is abolished or we are abolished." He called for a mass movement and relentlessly attacked the Reds. "Just as people can only use antidote to detoxify, so this kind of movement can only rely on people's fists, and can only act in this way. Victory can only depend on whose skull is harder, whose determination is greater, and whose It is determined by the greater ideal.” For the upper-class audience, although this remark was a hard piece of hard meat to digest, it won “stormy applause”.

To win, he said, the movement must be as indisputable as Marxism. "This is beyond doubt: we realize that if Marxism triumphs, we are destroyed, and nothing else; but if we win, we destroy Marxism at the root without mercy. Destroy its last newspaper, dismantle its last organization, close its last training center, reform or eradicate its last Marxist, and we will not rest! For us, the middle way is absolutely nonexistent!" This is an exceptionally good speech.It showed that, in the fierce legal struggle for state power, Hitler was finally finding the broadest possible base of support.Nor did he forget that, despite the Bamberg conference, he did not fully control his party.He began to turn his charm on the two heads of the opposition - Gregor Strasser and Goebbels. In early March Strassel capitulated (with serious reservations) and he wrote to his followers withdrawing his program in its entirety. In April, Hitler made a special trip to Munich in order to win Goebbels.After being the Führer's distinguished guest for two days, Goebbels was so excited that he couldn't sleep at night.On the third day, Hitler gave him a tour of the party headquarters, and then talked with him alone for three hours (“fantastic”), revisiting the various arguments from the Bamberg meeting.Goebbels listened with relish, turned to Hitler's belief step by step, and finally surrendered in one fell swoop. We ask questions.He gave a brilliant answer.I love him.Social issues, fairly new prospects, he had it all thought out... On everything he reassured me.No matter in which point, in any aspect, he is a man.He is so fiery that he is my leader.I bow down to men greater than myself, to political geniuses! He left Munich cheerfully ("Good-bye, Munich! I love you very much!"), not only forgiving his past sins, but taking the oath of office as magistrate of the Ruhr area. After converting Strasser and Goebbels, Hitler went north again to seek economic aid and to consolidate his position among the northern leftists. On May Day, he spoke to an enthusiastic audience who had secretly come to listen at Schwering's town hall, about 60 miles east of Hamburg.By 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the hall was full of National Socialists from Altogang, Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck and Lüneburg. The "Hamburger Zeitung" reported that when Hitler arrived, there was music "with enough force to bring down the walls". Hitler had learned to use body posture before this.According to Müllern Scheinhausen, this is the result of the teaching of Erik Din Hanussen, the most famous seer and astrologer in Europe.The two are said to have met at the home of a socialite in Berlin.Hanussen opened his mouth and said, "If you really want to get into politics, Herr Hitler, why didn't you learn to speak?" Hanussen was a master of body language; he explained to Hitler that Hitler did not use movement to enhance his Momentum.According to Millern Scheinhausen, in the following years, they often met briefly, and Hanussen not only taught him the skills of speech, but also taught him how to choose colleagues.However, it was not until the end of 1932 that he read Hitler for the first time - and he himself died.