Chapter 88 Chapter Fourteen "With the Sleepwalker's Guarantee" (5)

Despite Hitler's great disappointment, 1936 brought him great success.This Christmas, as he told Mrs Goering, had been the one that had really entertained him "over the years." "I think this is the happiest Christmas I've ever had." Despite his severe stomach problems, insomnia and eczema, they had a good time. On December 25, through the introduction of Hoffman, the photographer, he chose a doctor as his personal doctor.The doctor's name is Deo Morel, a dermatologist with a thriving practice in Berlin's Kurfürstendamm Strasse.Most of his patients are well-known figures in the film and theater circles.He is black and fat, with a round face, highly myopic eyes, and wears a pair of glasses for deep myopia.His hands were thick and large, hairy, and his nails were often naughty.He was sometimes careless when administering treatment.Some say he once bound a patient's arm with a bandage that had just been wiped off a table; he injected two patients with the same needle without sanitizing it.

There are many doctors in Germany. The reason why Hitler singled him out may be the friendship between Mrs. Morell and Eva Braun.For the first time since leaving the army, Hitler stripped of all his clothes for a medical examination.Hitler suffered from abdominal pain, and Morell diagnosed gastric and duodenal ulcers, and prescribed two drugs, "Modefro" and "Galestol".Hitler also suffered from meteorism and kept farting.Since he was a vegetarian, his condition gradually worsened.Dr. Morel prescribed Koch's Qudu pills.The pill contained strychnine, but Dr. Morell, unaware that it contained this ingredient, made Hitler take 2 to 4 pills with each meal.In addition, Morell gave him large doses of vitamins, often mixed with glucose and given intravenously, to strengthen Hitler's strength.

Two of the most prestigious experts in the country, one is Dr. Glowitz, chairman of the German Red Cross, and the other is Dr. Bergmann, a professor at the Charity Hospital in Berlin. Both failed to cure Hitler's stomach cramps and pain so that he could not wear boots of eczema.Dr. Morel, however, promised to cure both diseases within a year.In just over a month, he cured him.So Hitler happily announced that the doctor had performed a miracle and saved his life. "Both Gergwitz and Bergmann starved me to tea and biscuits... My body was too weak to support my desk work. Then Morel came and made my body Rehabilitation" He attributes his physical recovery entirely to Morel, and even the improvement of his gums is due to the injection of mother daflo, rather than the prescription of his dentist Hugo Braschick - frequent brushing and massage ——As a result.

On January 30, 1937, Hitler delivered a speech in parliament to commemorate his fourth anniversary as chancellor.He was radiant and looked younger than his age.He reiterated his sacred duty: "Today, I must thank God. It is the grace of God that I, a nobody in wartime, have successfully fought for our honor and the rights of our country." It was a promise made together The speech, which was not a threat, had no small impact.The reason for this is that this bragging also has some basis in reality.In his first four years in power, Hitler did achieve quite a bit.Like Roosevelt, he paved the way for increased benefits for those with lower incomes; like Roosevelt, he intuitively concluded that economists, bewildered by conventional theories, knew very little about recessions.Thus, both leaders flouted tradition to boost production and reduce unemployment. ("Hitler also foresaw modern economic policy," commented economist J. Kenneth Galbraith in 1973, "...he realized that full employment can only be achieved quickly if both wages and prices are controlled simultaneously. Possibly. It is not surprising that a nation oppressed by economic fear would respond to Hitler's call as Americans responded to Roosevelt." Perhaps he didn't know much about economics and what he was doing." But , in economics, when you’re on the right track and don’t know why, that’s the big deal.”) Hitler also built a network of highways that changed the face of the country—unifying the country in peacetime and becoming one in wartime. Contribute to national mobilization.In order to enable ordinary people to "walk on wheels", he developed the "people's car".This car is sturdy and durable, and the price is cheap, and the average person can afford it.He asked Ferdinand Borch to design a four-seat car that would consume a gallon of fuel per forty miles, with an air-cooled engine that would not freeze in winter.He also envisions other innovations for the future.In large cities, automated underground parking lots, numerous free trade centers, parks, green areas, and strict pollution control must be built.Out of his personal concern for cleanliness (perhaps related to his fear of developing cancer), he was particularly concerned about the problem of pollution; he encouraged industry efforts to completely eliminate the poisonous gas.In the Ruhr Basin, some factories have installed facilities to eliminate pollution; all newly built factories must be equipped with devices to prevent water pollution.

His interest in urban planning even extended to small towns and villages.He told his cronies that the main thing was space (another concern), "I am glad that our architects, when planning, took space into account. Only in this way, we don't have to build More, almost house-on-house, overcrowded towns like the ones we saw in Zwickau and Gerschenkirchen etc. If I were sent to such an unaesthetic town Town, I will be disappointed, I will lose my happiness, just like I was dispatched by my motherland. Therefore, I have made up my mind to make even the humblest town a little bit of culture and beauty, and then step by step improve each town. level of comfort.”

The well-being of youth and their upbringing also have priority.The educational system has changed dramatically, with high school specializing in the natural sciences, and nonclassical courses as important as the humanist college preparatory curriculum.Some subjects, such as ancient languages ​​and science, were influenced by the considerable emphasis on physical education, on the required courses in the biology of race, and on German history and literature. "The object of our education is the formation of character," wrote one Nazi educator, "and we do not want to educate our children into little scholars...so I say, 'Let us lose ten pounds of knowledge and ten calories of character! '"

Accompanying the process of tempering his character was the semi-deification of Hitler.Before lunch, children in Cologne must recite this prayer: Führer, my Führer, God has given me my head, Protect me, as long as I am alive! You saved Germany from fire and water; Thank you, I can have bread every day. Bless me forever, don't abandon me, Führer, my Führer, my Faith and Light! Long live my Führer! British Ambassador Philippine*?Reporting to London: "...German schoolchildren are being carefully groomed intellectually and physically for the defense of Germany...but I fear that if they are required to defend Germany by this or any subsequent German government, they will Will be fit and ready to advance or die on foreign soil." The symptoms began with "juvenile training"—that is, the training of boys between the ages of ten and fourteen in preparation for the "Hitler Youth." "'Junior training' is an element of newly acquired, eternal, merciless truth," writes the author of a pamphlet on the subject, "to obey an order or an instruction is to us the most sacred duty .This is because every order comes from the person in charge, and that person in charge is the Führer in whom we trust... So, brothers and sisters of Germany, we are your vanguard. We, the leaders of the German youth, Train and teach your sons and daughters to make them men of action and victories. We have sent them to strict schools, forged their fists, sharpened their courage, and cultivated their confidence—to Germany confidence."

After joining the "Hitler Youth", every boy has a dagger engraved with the words "Blood and Honor".He was also told that now, not only did he wear the brown coat, but he would protect it by force. "That is to say, we cannot tolerate anyone doing anything to us." Not long ago, a member of the "Hitler Youth League" who fled to Britain said, "We are superior to any civilian. If they dare to put on airs, we will Beat them hard." Before 1933, the purpose of the "Hitler Youth League" was nothing more than to unite young people from all walks of life. Using propaganda and persuasion methods, on the one hand, they broke with various organizations of the Communist Party; Thoughts of struggle.Later, its task became to let them build up their physique, receive political education, and train them to serve the head of state and the nation.However, contrary to popular belief, they did not undergo military training.According to Hirahi's adjutant Hartmann Rotbacher, "The uniforms are the clothing of the youth organization before the establishment of the Hitler Youth League, not only in Germany, but also in other countries."

In order to prepare the nation mentally and physically for the future, Hitler made a huge improvement in the level of health of the people in four years, and even foreigners were deeply impressed by this. "Infant mortality has been greatly reduced, lower than that of the British Empire."After Hitler came to power, Sir Arnold Wilson, a member of the British Parliament who visited Germany seven times, wrote, "Tuberculosis and other diseases have been greatly reduced. The courts of criminals have never been tried so empty, and the prisons have never been so empty. See It is indeed a joy that the youth of Germany are so strong. Even the poorest people are better dressed; their smiling faces testify that they are also in a much happier mood."

Working conditions have also improved – there are more windows, less crowding and improved restrooms.Under the slogan "Beautify Everywhere", all offices and studios are kept neat and clean.There are more flowers and plants, so that workers can appreciate their own environment.These grades are real, not phantom.Workers have never enjoyed such privileges.Robert Rey's "Labor Front" initiative, "Strength of Joy," also provided workers with stipends for concerts, theater performances, exhibitions, dancing, cinema, and adult classes.The most revolutionary innovation was the travel subsidy.Now, even the humblest laborers and their wives and children can sit on a luxury cruise ship and enjoy an undreamed-of holiday.

"The workers see that we sincerely want to improve their social status," Rey said: "They see that it is not the so-called 'intellectual class' who are sent to represent Germany, but themselves. The world shows the German working class." In Germany, people also built many ships without class, and employers and white-collar workers enjoyed the same treatment as workers. Hitler said in a parliamentary speech on January 30: "What has happened in Germany Fundamental changes, with effects. These effects are democracy in the highest sense—if democracy means anything.” Hitler meant this very spirit of social democracy. Hitler was committed to uniting people of all walks of life—Jews, of course, were not among them.His brand of socialism excludes neither the rich nor the middle class. "The bourgeoisie must not think that they are some kind of enjoyment of education or capital, and must not think that they have been separated from the workers by Marx's concept of property."He told an interviewer, "The bourgeoisie must, like the workers, adapt themselves to the welfare of society." In practice, this notion glorified the workers and underscored Hitler's theory of social equality.The public media advertised him as a construction worker, a painter and a student, an ordinary member of the people, an ordinary person who sat next to the driver, and he ate simple meals.He refused to accept any kind of honorary degree.When addressing workers in the factory, he always used the nickname "we" and boasted to them that he, too, was a landless and stockless man-but he did not mention that a book had made him a hundred-year-old man. millionaire. This spirit of equality is felt even in the armed forces.In the standing army there was far more camaraderie among officers and soldiers than before; the SS became a paragon of democracy.Here, the difference between official ranks no longer exists, and there is a brotherhood of one for one and one for all—this is unacceptable to most British and American officers.The most egalitarian expression is "youth labor service" - all young men and women between the ages of 17 and 25, regardless of class, must work for the "people and the motherland" for a period of time, either as farmers or laborers.This approach was originally intended to reduce unemployment, but it far surpassed Roosevelt's "popular maintenance corps" with a similar purpose, and became a form of socialism.On the walls of the labor camps, there were often banners, portraits of the Führer and other leaders, and slogans such as "Germany needs you, you need Germany", "The people are above all else, but you are insignificant", "Labor service is the responsibility of German youth". Honorable duty" and other inspiring slogans.In a labor camp, American visitor G. S. Cox found two very interesting slogans.One is Hitler's quotation: "Jews are not Germans, but businessmen, not citizens, but eradicators"; *?Second, it is juxtaposed with Kant's quotation: "Dare to use reason".Cox found that the exercisers' mood was high. "They're fit and well-fed — a luxury that some of them haven't enjoyed in years. They're too busy to be judgmental." Perhaps the greatest achievement of Hitler's first four years in office was his unification of the country.The diplomat George Kennan warned one of his superiors that Hitler had not turned back the clock. "Germany is united, absolutely. In this respect, what was unfinished by Bonaparte and Napoleon III was completed in Versailles. Now, Hitler is uprooting the remnants of particularism and class distinctions. To preach Hitler is to use everything There is no such thing as a minimum standard to accomplish all this. It is not true. The unity of Germany is a fact. Hitler may fall, but unity remains. At the same time, there will be a deterrent to foreign interference — has to exist. Envy, instability, feelings of inferiority, and the accompanying greed to rule Europe — these are things that most Germans really share.” No objective observer of the German problem can deny the great achievements of Hitler.Although laborers lost their trade unions, management also lost the right to organize politically.In fact, everyone loses their rights and liberties, and what the country gains is equality and prosperity.The price paid for Hitler's program, however, was not limited to the loss of civil liberties: although he ingeniously lifted the country out of recession and ended unemployment, his insistence on accelerating rearmament at all costs would A potentially catastrophic economic crisis was imposed on Germany.Schahit, a brilliant man, had tried his best to oppose Hitler's and the military's efforts to make Germany economically independent.First, he overruled the War Department and L. G．Farben's plans for the production of synthetic rubber.Then, he rejected Blomberg's request to increase fuel oil production, because he was afraid that this move would disrupt the balance of the national economy in peacetime.However, by early 1936, Shahit's influence had gradually faded.In peacetime, Hitler had ordered the army to be expanded to 36 divisions, and the national economy was out of balance.There are two basic reasons: import prices have risen by 9 percent, while export prices have fallen by 9 percent; German agriculture is unable to meet the needs of the country because of two consecutive years of poor harvests in agriculture.Stockpiles of raw materials are dwindling and there are already disturbing shortages of food and fuel on the market.The crisis was exacerbated by Russia's blockade of exports of both commodities and Romania's high prices.The supply of fuel for heating, lighting, and lubrication, as well as that of diesel oil, remained low and could not be replaced by domestic production. It was this emergency that prompted Hitler in the mid-summer of 1936 to propose the above-mentioned plan for a war economy.His answer to the fuel tank crisis was adopted years later in the United States - self-sufficiency.He naturally knows that within the existing territory of Germany, it is impossible to produce enough raw materials to achieve complete self-sufficiency.He still insists on doing his best.Absolute self-sufficiency was possible, he insisted, as long as Germany expanded eastward.Ignoring Shahit's opinion, he demanded to increase the production of synthetic rubber, iron ore, oil, textiles and light hardware products, and demanded that the fuel crisis be resolved within a year and a half. Experts have repeatedly warned that if the plan is carried out, production costs will be extremely expensive.He ignored it.He turned a deaf ear to the complaints from industry about his idea of ​​producing weapons instead of increasing production of raw materials.Instead, he hit back at big business with the idea that the state would intervene if they dared not participate in the struggle for self-sufficiency."Finance and economics, and all theory, serve the struggle of the people for self-reliance," he declared. For Hitler, it was simply a matter of willpower.He called for an economic mobilization "comparable to military and political mobilization".He didn't care how the economy was mobilized as long as the Army was operational within four years. This was the four-year plan he announced at the Nuremberg Congress in 1936.A month after the congress, he picked Goering to head the project.Interestingly, only one of his collaborators was an old party member, and all senior positions were held by government officials, representatives of the business community and officers of the General Staff who were willing to cooperate.This meant that, with the exception of Goering, who was loyal only to himself and Hitler, the Nazi Party had been excluded from making decisions about national economic life. In a speech calling for national mobilization, Goering declared that workers and peasants must produce at full capacity, inventors must be at the disposal of the state at all times, and businessmen must not "think of profit but only of an independent and strong German economy." He In language that an American president would interpret in a generation, the entire population of Germany is called upon to serve the country. “Each of us asks ourselves every day what we can do and what we can contribute to the success of our common endeavor.” Two months later, Hitler personally issued a strong appeal to a group of industry leaders, asking them to trust Goering and support him in completing this important task.He said: "Goering is the best man for the job, with a strong determination, a man of iron will." At the same meeting, Goering told industrialists that the question is no longer how cheap produce, but must produce.How foreign exchange is earned, he doesn't care at all.Only those who broke the law and were unsuccessful were prosecuted. "I am compelled to denounce these economic blunders," Shahit wrote, "and against this irresponsible, wanton mockery of the law as openly as possible." On his 60th birthday, in a speech together , that's how it was said.He also criticized Goering's theory that the only thing that matters is production.If I sow a hundred pounds on a plot of land and get only three-quarters of a hundred pounds, it is economically unimaginable nonsense. It was a declaration of war by an out-of-favor official. Within months, Shahit was forced to resign as Minister of Economy. This allowed Goering to run amok and follow through on the Fuehrer's transformation of the national economy into a rearmament—and a war effort. The plan for the down-to-earth tool of the service. If Hitler had died in 1937, on the fourth anniversary of his rise to power—despite a severe economic crisis—there would be no doubts.He will go down in German history as one of the greatest figures.All over Europe millions of people admired him with admiration.Gertrude Stein (who found Roosevelt repulsive) believed that Hitler deserved the Nobel Peace Prize.George Bernard Shaw published articles in newspapers defending Hitler and other dictators.His lectures on fascism outraged his colleagues in the Fabian Society and There was fierce opposition from exiled anti-fascist fighters, and a flood of fiery letters flooded in.Another outspoken follower was the famous Swedish explorer Sven Heiding.Hitler, he wrote, had an indomitable zeal for the cause of justice, a great political vision, an unmistakable foresight, and "a genuine concern for the welfare of his fellow men."Heading himself is one-sixteenth Jewish and proud of it.He defended Hitler's anti-Semitism on the one hand and opposed his harsh measures on the other.He said that if you do an impartial look at what the Jews have done since the armistice, you will understand why the Germans hate the Jews. "Where the policies of defeatism and servility are passed, there is no doubt that the main supporters there must be the Jews. The vanguard of Communism and Bolshevism must be the Jews. This is a rule." His summary of Hitler's achievements It can be said that it came from the hand of Goebbels, "who in just four years raised his people from the lowest level to a self-conscious, proud, disciplined and powerful man, and naturally deserves the gratitude and praise of his countrymen. Human respect." Hitler not only inspired the individual foreigner, but set an example that stimulated the emergence and growth of similar movements throughout Europe.Foremost among these was the "British League of Fascists", the so-called Black Party.Not long ago, Hitler had attended a luncheon reception after the wedding of Black Party leader Sir Oswald Mosley to Diana Mitford.In France—where anti-Semitism has long been an aspect of nationalism, monarchism, and sometimes Catholicism—the "French Action," led by Charles Moras, prospered in part among the gifted Great influence among writers.In addition, in France there is the old far-right organization "Iron Cross" led by Colonel François de la Roque, and five or six such organizations.While fascism in practice repulsed these non-conformists, the words and achievements of Hitler and Mussolini mobilized them.They are against free states, against democracy and parliamentary government. In Belgium, Leon de Greer, a young man who later claimed to be the spiritual son of Hitler, organized the "King's Party" as a bulwark against communism. "Our movement," he remarked years later, "is Falangist, not Fascist, spiritual, not political." Monarchism, in his view, was a reaction against the ills of the time; A movement for political innovation and political justice; a battle against chaos, incompetence, malfeasance, wavering and—this is most important—against Bolshevism. The effects of fascism spread to America.In the "German-American League" in the United States, members openly wore Nazi uniforms: white shirts, black ties, high boots and swastikas. In China, Chiang Kai-shek secretly organized an elite group known as the "Blue Shirts Club". "Now, fascism is considered backward," said one member many years later, "but at the time, it was an extremely advanced means of revitalizing China." Its primary goal, obviously, was to preserve the nation's Survive. "Fascism is the only instrument by which a dying nation can save itself," wrote the Blue Shirts' publication Social News in an editorial chapter. "It saved Italy and Germany. . . There is no other way but the spirit, as Italy and Germany did." Chiang Kai-shek was equally enthusiastic. "Can fascism save China?" He posed this question to a group of members of the Blue Shirts Society, and answered himself: "Of course! Fascism is what China needs at the moment." Although he denies Westerners in public, he does not Loathes democracy, but trusts Hitler's Führer principle ("For decades, we have been intoxicated with democracy and the promotion of freedom of thought, but have gotten nothing"). "The gist of fascism," Chiang Kai-shek told his party leaders eight months after Hitler came to power, "is absolute confidence in a wise leader." Unless such a leader is completely trusted, national revival is impossible. . "Therefore, needless to say, the leader must be a great man with a revolutionary spirit, and he must be an example and role model for all party members. Moreover, every party member must sacrifice everything and directly serve the leader and the party. , the nation and the service of the revolution. From the date of our membership in this revolutionary party, we have dedicated our rights, life, liberty and happiness to this party and its leaders... For this reason we can be called true fascists. " What Hitler achieved in the four years since he came to power greatly inspired many like-minded people.Fascism attracts not only the disaffected or disenfranchised, but also the well-intentioned and concerned.It attracts large numbers of young people and intellectuals who find Fascism fresher than the liberalisms of the bourgeoisie.Although the brands of fascism in different countries are different, all advocates of fascism (including Hitler and Mussolini) all believe that no matter what, the spiritual unity of the nation will overcome all difficulties.They believe that any method to achieve this goal is just and beyond reproach.