Chapter 58 Chapter Ten "It's Like a Dream" (1)

1931-1933.1.30 After recovering from the grief over Gilly's death, Hitler attended a meeting of party leaders in the north.This meeting was so important to the party that it was restricted to party governors and leaders of the SA.The meeting was a success and it marked the end of the party reshuffle. "Our party," he said a few days later, "is united today, and the magistrates and political leaders have instinctively made the right decision." "Cleaned out.The party organization was streamlined, the party system was consolidated, and Hitler's personal power was strengthened.

After the internal affairs were sorted out, Hitler freed his hands and feet to devote himself to political activities across the country. On October 14, 1931, through the arrangement of General Kurt von Schleicher, one of President Hindenburg's confidant advisers, Hitler met with the "old man".In front of Hindenburg, Hitler seemed at a loss.At six feet five inches tall, with a booming, deep voice, Hindenburg was an unstoppable figure.Hitler's lengthy speech made the field marshal very angry.He is said to have complained to Schleicher later that Hitler was a freak and would never be Chancellor, and that the highest job he could have was Minister of Posts and Telecommunications.Despite the disappointment of the meeting, Schleicher still had hope in Hitler.What impressed him was not only the achievements of the head of state in the recent general election, but also his nationalist program. "He is an interesting character with extraordinary eloquence." This is his evaluation of Hitler. "According to his plan, he went to the sky. To keep him on the ground, you have to hold him by the tail." Schleicher - in German, it means "conspirator" - is a resourceful Character, however, the enthusiasm has the potential to lead him into a deep pool.He secretly believed that he had the ability to influence any former corporal.

Hitler was used to being underestimated.The government's failure to deal with mounting unemployment brought sobriety to many Germans, among whom Hitler built a base of popular support in the ensuing months.In order to gain support abroad, he attempted to address the American people directly - an unprecedented move.He plans to explain his party's "path, meaning and goal" to the American people on the night of Friday, December 11 through CBS.At the last moment, however, the German government canceled the radio address, but translations of his speech appeared in the Hearst newspapers.

Notable was his extremely anti-communist policies.In his speech, he hoped that the American people, out of a passion for self-defense, would stand with him in the fight "against the world plague," that is, Bolshevism. On New Year's Day 1932, he gave a speech in Munich.He told his audience that God was on his side in the struggle for a better world. Didn't the Bible say that the indifferent should be spit out?Almost immediately thereafter, Hitler seemed to have achieved something of a victory—Hindenburg's advisers invited him to Berlin.They asked him to help extend Field Marshal Hindenburg's presidency, but this ran counter to Hitler's wishes.Because, he said, he would then be compelled to support Chancellor Bruening's policies more or less.His refusal signaled his readiness to risk his entire political future for the presidency, even though running openly against Hindenburg was a gamble. The "Old Man" is a legend.His conservatism was bound to win many votes on the right, and his public defense of the Weimar Republic against extremists like Hitler was bound to attract moderates and democrats.

Goebbels wrote in his diary: "...the game for power has begun." He urged Hitler to take the risk.His concern is how to get enough money for the campaign.Hitler solved the problem in one fell swoop with a lecture at the Park Hotel in Düsseldorf, Germany's steel center.On the initiative of Fritz Thyssen, on January 17, he gave a lecture to a group of influential people at the Industrial Club in accordance with the recent decision to "work systematically among influential businessmen". In secret conversations before Dusseldorf's speech, Hitler had made major revisions to his economic program.He supported the dismantling of unions and the abolition of free management.He also advocated the cancellation of a program aimed at restoring the economy - a series of public works, the rearmament of the army, and the management of the big business leaders.Within an hour, his audience was engrossed as he touched on issues of direct concern to these practical businessmen.For example, he asserts that private possession of property is a matter of course.At the same time, he paints a dire picture of the post-communist development. "If left unchecked, Bolshevism will completely change the face of the world, just as Christianity has done before... If this movement continues, 300 years from now, people will not only see Lenin as the revolutionary in 1917, but And would worship Lenin like a bodhisattva." He said the economic depression had left millions of unemployed and dispossessed Germans cornered, and they looked to the communists for answers to their plight.This is the most pressing problem in Germany today, and the solution to this problem is not economic regulation, but political power.The Nazi Party, and only the Nazi Party, is ready and willing to stem the red tide.Without National Socialism, there would be no middle class in Germany; with it, the country would be united and revived.

Hitler's speeches had never been better.He alternates emotion and logic.Now he terrorizes his audience with dire images of Bolshevism and the end of the system that once brought them security; Take the helm and lead Germany, ultimately allowing Germany to regain its status as a world power.The audience had a premonition of the unraveling of fifty years of achievement and wealth.So many returned home ready to donate to him, the one who had promised to save them.