Chapter 56 Chapter 9 Family Death (5)

For Hitler, the international propaganda that followed the September election was both good and bad.As Hitler's popularity grew, his nephew, William Patrick Hitler, who lived with his mother in England, came to visit. In 1909, Alois Jr., who was a waiter in Dublin, married the Irish girl Bridget Elizabeth Dowling.Their lives were hectic and hectic as Alois constantly changed his ways of earning a living.Alois owned a small restaurant in Liverpool, sold it and bought a flat to let.He worked as an innkeeper, went bankrupt, and became a hawker of blades.Brigitte was not used to such a difficult life and ran away several times.After the birth of William Patrick, the quarrels became more violent, because Alois, following his father's dogma, believed that children should be disciplined from an early age.He beat the baby several times while Bridget was away.When William Patrick was three years old, the family broke up.According to Bridget, Alois abandoned them and returned to Germany alone; but Alois told relatives and friends that his wife had eloped with an engineer and had taken the child away.

When Bridget and her son read in the newspapers that Hitler had won the general election, they thought, "This is a good opportunity to make money, and agreed to be interviewed by a reporter from the Hearst paper." After all, Alois never Send money to support your family!So they began negotiations with representatives of Hearst newspapers in London. In early October, photos of William Patrick appeared one after another in American newspapers.The caption to the photo said: "William Patrick Hitler, a clerk working in London, is the nephew of Adolf Hitler, the new political head of Germany. He was born in Liverpool and knew little about his uncle's goals." In fact, He really knew so little that he had to write to his father asking about the life of the new political head. "Father wrote back," he said to the interviewer of the Strategic Intelligence Service many years later, "the letter said that Adolf asked for a family meeting, and now he is sending the ticket." Once in Munich, the mother and son discovered that Hitler "" Filled with rage."At a family meeting attended by Angela Rabaul and Alois, Hitler said that his "fame was getting bigger and bigger, you can't climb on my back and ride my fame for nothing." Alois remarried without divorcing Bridget, leaking family affairs to Hearst's newspaper, a practice that would have ruined his chances of political success. "How careful I have always been to keep my private affairs from the press!" People know, they must not let them know where I am from, what family origin I am... Even in my books, I have not said a word about these things, I have not said a word, and now, my nephew I was discovered by accident. They are conducting investigations and sending spies to find out about my life." According to the Paris Soir article, Hitler angrily announced at this point that William Patrick did not even have a relative. No, because his father, Alois Jr. (who was present to hear this and did not comment), was the adopted son of Alois Hitler the Great.He and his mother (according to the OSS interviewer) should return to London immediately and inform Hearst's newspaper that the leader of the Nazi Party was another Adolf Hitler, not their relatives.This solution made Hitler "delighted," and after urging mother and son to "return to England as soon as possible and break off all relations now and in the future," Hitler gave Alois $2,000 to serve as the mother and son in Munich. Expenses and travel expenses home.Alois paid the fare, bought the ticket, and promised to mail the balance because it was "much safer."William Patrick swore the money was never received (strangely enough, shortly thereafter the Hearst publication The American in New York published an article on Adolf Hitler signed by Alois Hitler Jr. Report. In the article, Alois Jr. described his younger brother in the article as a lovable and generous child, and a dreamer whose dreams were as far from reality as heaven and earth. After his mother died, Adolf had took his sister to Vienna, where the brother and sister struggled against relentless poverty. Adolf had to sweep streets and do other manual work in order to feed Paula and himself, Alois wrote. Later , he went to Munich to work as a house painter and decorator).

Shortly after William Patrick and his mother returned to England, Hitler summoned his lawyer to his apartment on Platz-Regentinplatz.Hitler pointed to a letter in front of him and said, "This letter is related to a 'hateful' blackmail case, which was carried out by one of his most annoying relatives, and also involved his ancestors." According to Hans Frank's Recall that Hitler refers to William Patrick Hitler.This person "suggested" that the press was interested in some aspect of Hitler's ancestry—that is, that he was partly Jewish.Therefore, the head of state ordered Frank to investigate the matter secretly.

The reports he gathered from "all possible sources" were the most disturbing: Hitler's father appeared to be "the illegitimate son of a cook named Schkelgruber from Leonding near Lindsburg, who was employed by Graz. family. The cook "had a son while working for Frankenberg, a Jew. In the late 1830s, Frankenberg, on behalf of his 19-year-old son, paid the son of a woman named Schkelgruber a 'Paternal Allowance' from her birthday until she was 14". Kemberg and the cook (Hitler's grandmother) also had long-term correspondence, "What was discussed in the correspondence was roughly that the parties involved knew in their hearts that the time and place when Schkelgruber was pregnant with this child made Frankenberg have to pay the allowance. "

Frank's report came to a regrettable conclusion: the possibility that Hitler's father was half-Jewish could not be ruled out. The Führer vigorously challenged Frank's reasoning.He explained with embarrassment that his grandfather, impoverished, had successfully extorted an allowance by pretending Frankenberg was paternal.Hitler swore he had been told this by his father and grandmother.Frank's evidence must have terrified Hitler, otherwise, how could he tell this big lie: his grandmother died 40 years before his birth.More importantly, he admitted that his grandmother had indeed received money from the Jews, so that his blood is not pure.The chances that Adolf Hitler was partially Jewish were extremely slim.Research by Nikolai Priradovich of the University of Graz casts some doubt on Frank's evidence.In the register of Jewish membership in Graz (Austria), he found no mention of Frankenberg or Frankenred.These registers began in 1856, 19 years after the birth of Hitler's father.But that was because the Jews were expelled from Stilmark in 1496 and were only allowed to return there in 1856.Prior to this, according to Priradovich, "there was not a single Jew in Graz".Importantly, he himself was afraid of being Jewish; he had investigated at least twice since then to be sure.According to Schuch, a physician who had known Hitler since 1917, he "was painfully doubting all his life: did he have Jewish blood or not? He often talked to us about this." Hitler asked others to show the Aryan The supporting documents came, but I couldn't produce them myself.This explains why he said to William Patrick: "Don't let them know where I come from, what family I come from."

Despite such personal troubles, Hitler's 1931 augured well.He became the author of a best-selling book overnight.Since its publication, the annual sales volume was only more than 6,000 copies, and the sales volume soared to 54,086 copies in the previous year.This brought him a handsome income that seemed to last forever.In addition, the new party headquarters "Brown Building" opened on the first day of the new year.Purchased and furnished with special donations, proceeds from Hitler's rallies, grants and party dues, the building represented the substance and obligations of the Nazi party.The offices of Hitler, Hess, Goebbels, Strasser and the SS were located on the second floor.The Führer's office is spacious, reddish-brown, and quite beautiful.The windows go to the ceiling and overlook Koenigplatz.There is a bust of Mussolini in the office, and there are many paintings on the wall, one of which is Frederick the Great, and the other is the scene when the head of state's corps attacked Flanders for the first time. "Hitler wasn't often in the office," Frank recalls.His working methods were unsystematic.He may "come in like a gust of wind", but "go out like a gust of wind" before he sits down.If stuck in the office, he would rush things through and then "come on for an hour-long tirade."

He liked to while away his time in the corner of the little dining room downstairs.There was a "Führer" stand with a picture of Dietrich Eckart hanging on it.Before long this too was tedious.The life of an office in a "brown mansion" was not for him.His desire is to move, to gain the support of the people for himself and for the party, or to have high-level conversations with those who support him politically or economically. The problems facing Hitler in 1931 were indeed daunting.Most of these problems were caused by the rapid expansion of the party ranks.The growth of the party swelled every department of the party bureaucracy.As a result, departments rub against each other and envy each other.

The biggest headache was the SS, because many members of the SS didn't take Hitler's law-abiding words seriously.Often proud of their violent traditions, they don't understand why they should bow down to the civil servants of Munich.These were idealists, many with socialism in mind, and with the same revolutionary zeal as their Communist counterparts—and that was what embarrassed the Führer.From the outset he had been at odds with the leaders of the SA; the former wanted to turn the SA into an armed force of the party, while he insisted that its main task was to protect mass gatherings and to promote political loyalty .The first to make a fuss was Captain Romm.He was voluntarily exiled to South America because of his disagreements with Hitler; later, Pfeffer Salomon, who also made a request to strengthen the SA, was not satisfied, and soon quit.

Discord among the leaders created discord among the soldiers below.Not long ago, the brown shirts in Berlin rebelled on the grounds that they were starving, overworked, and often wounded or arrested in fights with the police and Reds.They did not want to stand guard only for party rallies. After Goebbels vetoed their seven demands, including a reasonable demand for increased funding, this unit went mad with anger and attacked the local party guards guarded by stormtroopers. department.It was only after Hitler himself intervened that the rebellion was quelled.Accompanied by armed SA, he visited various SS meeting points and called for reconciliation.He begged, promised, and reprimanded like a sick man and a tolerant father.He seldom talked about the seven demands of the brown shirts, and only treated it as a personal issue, calling on people to be loyal to him.He then announced that he was the commander-in-chief of the SS.The announcement was loudly applauded by the SS, but it also signaled that the short-lived insurgency was over and that Hitler could return to the campaign.

He promised to lead the SS, but it turned out to be a blank promise.He had neither the time nor the inclination to undertake the task.By early 1931, the SS still lacked effective leadership. On January 4 the party announced that Captain Roehm (recently recalled from Bolivia, where he had assisted the Republic in its war against Paraguay) would be Chief of Staff of the SS.He agreed to return to Germany because Hitler had agreed to let Roehm operate freely within the SS organization, which had 60,000 soldiers.Having agreed to temporarily keep the SA as a disciplined marching force, the able organizer and able leader set about rebuilding the SS in his own image.

Effectiveness, however, is no panacea for organizations with long-standing grievances.Soon another serious rebellion was brewing in the capital.The plight of the Berlin brownshirts remained largely the same.Their leader, Walter Stennis, was furious at the inequality within the organization.He again demanded that the organizational system should be based on "knowledge" rather than "personnel".He complained openly that Hitler "changed his mind every few months and issued new orders," in which case they could not act.Stennis' men were puzzled and worried.On the one hand they agreed with him, but on the other hand they leaned irresistibly towards the Führer. The problem came to the fore on February 20, 1931, after Hitler ordered the SA and SS to stop beating Reds and Jews in the streets. "I understand why you are sad and angry," he told the Brownshirts, "but you must not bear arms." They muttered discontentedly, but did nothing until Hitler succumbed to the Weimar government's decree the following month... It was only when the decree stipulated that future rallies must be approved by the police that Stennis condemned the capitulation to the authorities and held a secret meeting of SS leaders late at night on March 31.Those present at the meeting announced in unison that they supported Stennis and opposed Hitler. In order to solve the problem without causing bloodshed and internal strife, Hitler ordered Stennis to report to Munich and work as a desk job in the "brown building".Stennis refused to come.So Hitler poured the stormtroopers on the rebels.In less than 24 hours the open resistance was over - a tenuous rebellion.All Stennis asked for was pure National Socialism, serving the party, not someone. "Whoever walks with me will encounter a difficult and difficult road," he said when he said goodbye to his men. "However, for the ideals of National Socialism, I advise you to follow Hitler, because we do not want to make National Socialism destroy." On April 4, "Blame" and "People's Observer" published Hitler's article at the same time, condemning Stennis's "uprising".He reiterated that socialism had always been the main ideal of the Nazi Party; he criticized the "clowns of Sharon Bolshevism and Sharon Socialism" who had infiltrated the party. Every effort was made to "introduce into the SS a series of concepts strictly speaking that belonged to the constant agitation needs of the Communist Party." The articles aroused the ire of Berlin's separatist brownshirts.Hitler went to Berlin again, playing the role of mediator and middle revolutionary.This time, he brought Hanf Stangl with him.Hanfstangel wrote: "Hitler had no choice but to run up and down the suburbs, begging them with tears in his eyes, saying that only by relying on him could their interests be protected." After many twists and turns, he finally restored order.The next day he stayed with Stennis in a trade and tourist hotel.Stennis made the impression on Hanf Stangl that he was more a victim than a leader of the rebellion. "I found out that the man was very serious. He was the nephew of Bishop Schulte of Cologne. He pulled me to the window and our conversation was drowned out by the noise of the traffic. He said: 'Does Hitler understand that the rebellious The real instigator is standing next to him?' - This person is Goebbels. Despite Hitler's order not to allow us to fight, Goebbels has repeatedly encouraged them to take to the streets. Now, all responsibility is shifted to I'm coming." As usual, the presence of Hitler (backed by the SA) brought unity to the SS, and this time the unity was unbreakable.The dismissal of Stennis and his small group of followers did not cause a stir.Goebbels was unharmed, but many, with the exception of Stennis, felt that Goebbels played an insidious role in the rebellion. "For example, if a mother has many children and one of them goes astray," he said, "the wise mother will take her by the hand and hold her tight." Hitler also understood that he used force to bring back children who had gone astray.So he replaced Stennis in the Berlin SS with someone from the SA.The stormtroopers were ecstatic with their expanded powers as protectors of the Führer's principles. "We are not loved everywhere," said SA leader Heinrich Himmler at a meeting of SA leaders a few weeks later. In the corner, we should not expect thanks. But our Führer knows the value of the SA. We are his favourites, the most valuable organization because we have never disappointed him." At the same time, Hitler, as mediator, was ready to welcome back to his posts those errant or wavering SS-except for those too independent-spirited, who had to be purged and replaced by loyal followers. to take over.The reaction to Hitler's magnanimous gesture was almost unanimous.While many Brownshirts expressed dismay at Hitler and his insistence on legal action, such thoughts evaporated in the face of his Jesus-like manifesto.Hitler said: "I am the SA and the SS, and you are members of the SA and the SS. In the SA and the SS, I am among you." As soon as order was restored in the SS, its leader, Captain Rohm, was violently attacked for allegedly being gay.Earlier, Hitler had dismissed similar charges. "The SS was organized to achieve specific political goals. It is not a moral institution for raising little girls, but a union of rough fighters." He went on to say that someone's private life is his own private business, as long as It does not interfere with the tasks of National Socialism and ignores it. But the scandal is turning into a party affair.It was whispered that many of the officers who had been purged in the Stennis uprising had been replaced by gay comrades of Roma.Rohm was as nonchalant about these accusations as he was about accusing the SA of atrocities. "I know that in the past I was rough with the stormtroopers and was short-tempered, my dear Mr. Delmer, but from now on, please wait and see! My men will be safe, disciplined and orderly. It is my duty to Save the millions of unemployed workers who are susceptible to the influence of the Communist Party. I will turn them into orderly citizens and protect Germany against the Bolshevik enemies at home and abroad." These words were spoken by Rohm in London at the end of April. "Daily Express" reporter Delmer said.Delmer retorted, "Wake up, Germany!" Shouts like "Let the Jews perish!" did not seem like strict discipline and order. "Ah, you can't take these slogans at face value, you can only hear half of them." Then he said something that caught the reporter's attention. "I'm purging some rowdy, undisciplined people from the SS. For such an army, it would be good to have a little housecleaning." That was the purpose of his visit to Berlin.He explained that there had been a rebellion in the capital, led by Captain Stennis.This man was a "lunatic" who dared to challenge his and Hitler's authority.Rome assured Delmer that the rebels had been suppressed and everything was back to normal. A week later, at Rohm's suggestion, Delmer went to the "Brown Mansion" to interview the Führer.Hitler admitted he had two demands: the cancellation of war reparations debts and "freedom of action in the East".He was not keen on restoring the old frontiers or returning lost colonies, only asking that the few million remaining Germans be allowed to expand into the Soviet Union.Delmer asked, how did you get Hitler into Russia without invading Polish territory?Hitler replied curtly: "There is always a way." Just then King August Wilhelm burst in and announced with excitement that in the first four months of 1931 2,400 brownshirts had been wounded or killed fighting the Marxists. "My Führer," he shouted, "this is a civil war!" "Yes," Hitler replied casually, "it is undoubtedly a civil war." author.The article appeared in the newspaper on May 3, and predicted: "Germany is stepping up to join the camp of European fascist countries."