PPF 5100 Hitler, Ado If '- ... , L~ • *'"

".\hi" (Adolf Hitler)

"Verbatim r epo rts of actual conversations nith Adolf Hitl er, " by Dr. Herrno.nn Rnuschninc, confidunt of Hitl er and member of t he secret party conclaves f r orn 1932 t o 1935 . So.lected o.nd edited by Dr. James E. Davis , Juno 1940

Hitl er ' s Personal Habits Hitler's Dete~ination Freedom Hitler , a Dictator Vlar Hi tler's Foroign Policy Italians America Sweden Austria Anti-Semitism Russia Hi tler and Marxism Nationality and Raciality The Br eedinc of New Gennans Obligation to Depopulate Hi tler' s Secret of Ruling t he Uo.sses Conscience Propagundo. to Defeat Opponents Hitler's Trian&le Religion, Uorality, and Spirituality Doctrine ,

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ADOLF HITlER

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CONTENTS Pagee

BACKGROUND • •••• • • ••• • • • ••••••• 0 •• • ••••• 0 •••••••••• • 4 6

Fo.m1ly • • • • 0 •••••••• • • 0 • •••••••• 0 •• • • •••••• • 4 6

EDUCATION • •• •••• • • 0 • • 0 ••••••••••••••• ...... 6 11 Writi ng • • • • • 0 • 0 ••• • 0 6 - ?

Reading •••• 0 •• • ••• 0 ••• 0 ••••••••• • 0 • •• 0 0 0 •• ? 9

Concentration • ••• • • 0 • 0 • •• • 0 ••• •• 0 • • •••• ••• 9 10

No lee ...... 0 ••• 0 0 •• ...... 9

Silence 0 • • 0 0 0 • 0 •••• • • • •• •• ...... 10

Conversation •• •• •• • ••• •••• • •• 0 ••• • •••••••• 1e- 11

Debate ••••••• • 0 •••••••• 0 •• • •••• •• •••• 11

PHYSIQUE • • • 0 •••••••••• • •••• • •• ••• • 0 ••• 0 ••••••••• ••• 11 16

Personal Appearance •••••••••••••• 0 0 •••• • • • 12 ( 11 - Cleanliness • • •••• 0 ••••• 0 0 0 ••• 0 ••• • • 0 •••••• 12

Endurance •• • 0 • 0 • •• • •••••• 0 • • • • 0 • •• 0 ••••• 0 • 12

Exercise • • • 0 ••••••••••• 0 •• 0 • • ••••••• •••••• 12 13

Sight •••• • • ••••••• • • • • •• • • ••• • • 0 •••••• 0 ••• 13 14

Voice ••••••••••••• ••• 0 0 0 •••• • ••••••• • •• • • • 14- 15 Sleep ...... 15 Reactions ...... 15 16 DIET • ., , •...... 16 19 Food ...... 15 - 18 Drink ...... 18 Smoking ...... 18 - 19 .· . ' Pages ( PERSONAL PROTECTION ...... • . . . . . • . . • ...... • • 19 21 ENTERTAIN!iENT • •...... • •...... • .. • ...... • 21 24 Music ••••••••••.....•.•.•••••••.•.••.••••• • • 21 - 23 Dano1 ng •• •• • •• • ••..••••••••••••• • •••••.•..•• 23 Theatre • ...... •.....•.....•...•...... • 24 Veudev1lle • ••• • • ...•...... ••. . . .•....•••••• 24 Circus • •.....•••• .• •• ... • .... • •.•.•.. .. • . • • 24 INFORMATION ••••• . •••• • • . ••••••••••.. .•• .••• • • • •• • •••• 25 - 26 News ...... _ •• • 25 RB.dio • ••. • .•••••••••••••••••.••••••••• • ••• • 25 Movies ...... 25- 26

RELIGION •• •••••••••• •• •••• • 0 • ••••• • •• 0 • 0 ••• 0 • • • ••• • • 26 - 2?

MET~~ORPHOSIS IN LANDSBERG ...... • •..• ..•.....• •.• 2? - 29 c SEXUAL LIFE . . •.•. ..••.••.•.. .•• .. .•.•.•.•• • • •• •• •••• 29 - 40 The Vienna Period •. • • .•. , ..•. .• • ••....•. . ••• 29 - 30

An.alye1s •• ....•••• o o • o o • o. o • o • • •• • • o ••• 0. 0 • • 30 - 36

Cr1t1c1em • ... . •.• •• o ...... o •••• 0. 0 •••• 3?- 40 SELF-IDENTIFICATION PATTERNS ·········•· · · · ········ • · 40- 56

Intl'oduet1on . • .••• • • o o • • •• ••• •• • ••••••••••• 40 - 42

Hitler and Messiah •••• • ••••••••• 0 ••• • • 0 • 0 • • • 42 - 45

Hitler anc Cromwell •• o o ••• • ••• • o • • • • o ••• o • • • 46

Hitler and Frederick t he Great •.. o •••••••• •• 46 - 48

Hitler and Bl uecher •• •• 0 •••• •• ••• • ••• 0 0 •• • • 48 49

Hitler and Napoleon •• •• ••••• 0 ...... 49 - 56

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• 67 - ~9 Prep•r 1.1on ot Speeob •••• •• ••• • • , • • ..••• , •• £tnt ran-;...... ~ • • ~9 - 60 Intel"'ru:.' w:. t one •••• .•.•. .••• • •. • •...... , . • • • • • GO &p.ech •••••••••• • •• •• • ••••••• :. • • • • • • • Poetu.re Orator:r , • 86 E:nd or Speech •••.• , .••• , •••.• .• • . ...••••• • .•..• •• 8? Avo1d~n ce of Names and Peraonagea •. 157 - 68 Ex1t Toehn1que •. ••.• •••.••• . .••••..••..••••

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BACKGROUND ( family, - A glance at Hitler' s family tree r eveals the fact of almost incestuous breeding, Hitler's mother Klare Poelzl according to Mrs . Brigid Hitl er {mother of Patr ick Hitler) had Czech blood, besides being a blood relation or her husband, Alois Sch1ckelgruber, subsequently legit imized to Bitler. Hitler' s father was twenty-three years older t han his wife and 11as fifty-two years ol d v:hen Adolr Ri tler 'll'a s born in 1889. All evidence obtainable points to the fact that thi s marriage was unhappy. The one fact which seems to emer ce from t he cloud covering this marriage is that Hitler 1 s father was a sadist. This fact 11as learned by Dr . Sedgwick from l!r s . Brigid Hitler, t he ex-wife of Alois Hitler II, half-brother or Adolf ( Hitler.

She called on Dr . Sedgwick on August 10, 19~7 , a t his London home and told him that her ex-husband Alois had d escribed his own father as of very violent temper, in the habit of beating his dog until the dog wet the carpet. Be also beat his children and upon occasion in a bad temper he would go so far as to beat his 'Hife Xlara. The pattern thus becomes clear .. On one side was the c" hated father and on the other the suppressed mother, who quite possibly enjo~ed this treatoent, and young Adolf, at t his period just reaching the age of puberty, and constitutionall y opposed ••. I ·' re1ult or this dome1tic to hil rather (cr. "Mein K&mpr•). The ( and Oedipus com- lituation on Hitler waa a mixture or Narci11ua ' plexee. 's hyster­ There ia not the 1lightest doubt that Hitler in hie whole ioal-eyed mother oocupiea the central position influence during the erotio gene1ia. She vas or the proround~st rather, Aloia, died un­ period rrom the age or rourteen when hie twenty. Probably tor til his mother'e death when he was nearly years are practically very goo1 reasons these rive formative

1 h1a =other, however, il ignored in Me1n Kampt•. The death or 1 had, " This statement referred to as the greate1t loas I ever wa1 repeated to D~. Sedgwick i n 1923, II, who ia Brigid Hitler is the wire or Aloia H1tler Adolf. Separated r rom 1sven years older than his halt-brother with her eon, Pat­ (. her husband, ehe il now in the United Statee 1 my Uncle" , rick Hitler, the author or a book, I hate during 1894. Her Mre, Brig\d Hitler waa born in Dublin g a restaurant in Berlin, husband, when laat reported, was keepin where he opened a He wae allowed to return to Berlin in 1937 the Xa1ser Wilhelm's reataurant on the lurrueratendamm near by ~.A. and s.s. men. Gedaechtis-Xirche, whioh ie rrequented with th1a reatau- The name Hitler doea not appear in oonnection the proprietor 1a a halt-brother ~ rant but it ia we ll-known that ot Hitler, whom he has seen in the Chancellery, I

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' During hie youth Aloia Hltler II had eeveral convictions ( tor theft and subsequently went to Dublin where he was a waiter and met and married Brig1d when ehe was seventeen in 1911, Two years later he was expelled from England on a charge or being a souteneur, In 1 Me1n Kompr• Hitler or course never mentions his halt-brother, Aloia II, who 'is the skeleton in the Hitler family cupboard, EDUCATION Hitler has always despised education, having had so little himself, He dislikes eo much the "Profeuor Type• that in 1932 when it was suggested he should be given a degree by the Government or Braunschweig in order to become a German citizen he objected, He did not think it at all runny when at the lta18erhof Hotel Dr. Sedgwick said to him laughingly: ( •Well, now you are about to become a Professor after all~" He decided eventually against this scheme and obtAined hie

c1t1zenahip by being made Ober-Regierung1 s-Rat in Br~unschweig during February, 1932, He speaks no language other than German and n6ver listens to any abort-wave from any other country except German broadcasts from Paris or Moscow, Writing.- He writes very few letters himself. He wr1tee only in longhand and never usee n typewriter, Hov­ ever, he writes notes to accompany flowers tor collllllemorative oooaeione, ._, I - 7 -

' He never carriee either a pencil, pen or paper with ( him and never makel any note• himself, only drawings and • doodlee. These drawings or eketchee are usually of flags, Party symbols, stase eettings, portrait heads and houses . His doodle• are usually developed out of a square and are

collected avidly by the official photographs~ Heinrich Hoff­ •ann, who intends to edit them at some future time, possibly after Hitl er's death. He never consults the calender nor hia date book, which is kept by Sohaub and Brueckner. Hitler often used to eay 1 I have no private life, not even private correspondence. Everything ia read before I get it. This is the pric e I pay.• Reading.- From"Mein Kampf" it is obvious that Hitler ( only reads to confirm hia own ideas. He reads only what is of •value" to him. Just as in conversation people hear them­ selves even in the words of the man who is talking to them, eo the majority of readers only read themselves in the books they are reading. The power to enter into the world of the author, as Goethe says, is given to very few people. Thie explains in part why the profoundest and most brilliant books have so little real influence on the mass or readers. Hitler is the exemplification on the grand scale ot this phenomenon . Gifted from childhood with an extra­ ordinary power of speech,. in his reading he 1s only attracted .. ' - 8- ' \ by outatanding example• or rhetoric and hiatoric epigram. about Oolon, Alexander the Grent, Mariua, ( He haa read Sulla, Brutua, Catilino, Caesa r, Henry VIII, Guatave Adolf, Frederick the Great, Jeaua Chtiat, Mohammed , Moaea, Luther, d Cromwell, Napoleon, Xutusov, Blucher, Richard Wagner an Biemarok. Howe ver, all these livea he has read with his interest aide. confined to the demagogic, propagandietio and militariatio at is Hitler'a world is one of action, not contemplatton. Th the why he prefera the dramatic, revolutionary Schiller to a Olympian and contemplative Goethe. Biographlea which lack note or rebellion and titanic protest againet the existent stuff. world bore him. He considers them saturated, bourgeois ed For example, when Hitler reada Napoleon' s life he 1a interest which ( only in a aort or film acenario or the parte or the life ahow action, never in the contemplative aide. He ia always on the look-out tor t he dramatic phraee, die­ the happy epigram which he can twist to his own use. Ha oa- playa in the use or auoh a phraae a rantaatic aenae tor dance, euphony , assonance and alliteration. One good phrase or political catchword ia worth more catch­ to bi.m than oartloads of dry exposition and theory. A an word givee the unthinking mob not only the mater ial for that idea, but also furnishes them with She pleasant illusion they are thinking themselvea . -. - 9- There is only eo much room in a brain, eo much wall epace ae it were, and it you furnish it with your slogan• .. the opposition baa no place to put up any pictures later on, .. because the apartment or the brain ia already orowded With furniture. In modern history 1t 1s the lives or Oliver Cromwell, Frederick the Great, Napoleon and Blueoher which have i nterested Hitler the most since childhood, (~ pp. 46 - 68 . Concentrat1on.- Hitler will listen attentively to any­ thing he likes to hear, but it the subJect ia unpleasant, he will look at a picture paper and pny as little attention aa possible, He often reads Party Reports himself and concen­ trates on them while he ic eo doing, provided that they in­ him, He avoids reading Reports and desk work ae much ( terest as possible almost to the point or negligence. His entourage is i n a continuous state or despair on account or hie pro­ crastination in deal ing with thia desk work , These proteata

or h~a starr he never takes seriously. Hitler aaya: 'Problems are not solved by getting fidgetty. Ir the time is ripe the matter will be aettled one way or another, • Noise. - He ia extraord i nerily impervious to noise, While he reads the papers, boisterous conversation doea not ·l annoy him, rather the contrary, because he likes to be able to overhea4 what ia being said. A constant bu~~ or many voices is to him almost 11ke a substitute ror going out i nto the world and seeing what ie goi ng on tor hi~selr . I .· ' - 10- Silence. - Hitl er has a great cRpaci t y for silence. In the train or automobile from Berlin to 1-:unich he would

eay only perh9.p e a few 'IOorde during t he entire Journ~y . He would be thinking and planning. Conversation.- During meals he i s apt to let the conversation be general, but after an hQur or two he starts a monologue. These monologues form part of a fixed reper­

toire. They will be of a fintehed pe rf~c ti on like phonograph records - the favortte ones being: "When I was in Vienna• and "When I wse a soldier•, "When I was in pri son•, •when I 'IOas the leader in the early days of the PArty, " and eo forth. He frequently gets onto the subject of Richard Wagner and the opera, Noone interrupts t teae encore - rhapsodies. He carries on with these un: t l t he guests

~ finally break down and must retire, bec aus ~ they can no longer keep t heir eyee open. The guests, which coneiRted overwhelmingly of women, listened enraptured. At the end there "'as not a dry seat in the audience. He hardly ever aentions his collabor ators when they are not present, He does not tolerate gossip, except pos­ oibly at Goebbele 1 house very late at night or at Heinrich Hoffmann' s houoe in Muniob, - 11 -

pebate.- During an argument he hae an incredibl e lucidity; He is concise and knows how to present hie caea like a sputter i ng machine gun~. The cadences or hie sen­ tences are irresistibly shaped; they have a piercing power. No other orat or hae ever made such an impression on Dr . Sedgwick.

PRYSI~UE Pereonal Appearance.- He is meticulous about hie personal appearance and will never remove his coat in public - no matter how warm he reels. He allowe noons to eee him in his bath or to see him naked. In his dress he ia always very conventional and takea t he a dvice or hie t a ilor. He puts on the clothes that ar e laid out ror him He never lsee perfume . ( by Schaub wi thout any fuaaineea. Dr . Sed~· ick at various times brought back !rom England Yardley's lavender smelling-salts, which he would uee when fatigued by very long speeches or during tripe by plane to get away from the smell of gasoline. Hitl er al ways obJected to Dr. Sedgwick's uee of perfume and twitted him about it. Hitler disapproved of Dr. Sedgwick's giving lavender salte to Angela Hitler-Raubal, his sister, whot waa he mother or Gel1 Raubal who shot herael t. l In 1923 Dr . Sedgwick, who disliked Hitl er's l ittle muetache, tried to convince h1m or ita ugliness arguing that it should extend to the full width or the mouth. Dr. - 12-

Sedgwick said: "Look at the portraits by Holbein and Van Dyck, the old masters would ·nftver have dreamt of such an ugly fashion!• Hitler replied: •oo not worry about my Luetache. It it in not the fashion now, it will be later because I wear it!• Cleanlines s.- He is strict about bathing himself and likes a tub. He shaves himself every day. Once a week the barber trims his moustache and his hair ia out at regulaT intervale. Arrangements tor these matt ers are in the hands or Kannenberg. A local barber, nn old Party member, is generally employed. Endurance.- Hitler is quite robust and has a good deal of physical endurance. In 1932 he and hie starr often worked twenty hours a day tor weeks on end. He seemed to

atand it bett er than his starr as it was he who was eetti~g the pace. After a long and heavy day and missing one or two meals he always ineieta on hie chauffeurs and starr eating first and he himself will eat last, Ir rood is placed before him by some enthusiastic waitress he will carry it himself to the chaurreuro. Exercise.- He ie completely uninterested 1n either indoor or outdoor gameo . He lakea oo exercise other than ~ l...... • walking and this at irregular intervale. Hle pacing or the room 1s frequent and done ~ la marcia, to a tune which c • • - 1~-

he vh1:~tlea. He never val ka the length of the rooe but ( always diagonally from corner to corner - poe&1bly a habit contracted when a priAoner in Landaberg. While he waa imprisoned in Landsberg, Rese organized games and exercise tor the prtaonera but Hitler retueed to take part saying that 1t would be undignitted tor him to do eo, and 1 bad tor eeneral dieoipline.• For example, Hitler eaid: 1 A Fuehrer cannot etoop to euch informality. I muet alvaye keep up distance trom the entourage . • While he haa conoiderable knowledge or the workings ot a car or an airplane he hae never learnt to drive either . He is tond ot automobile riding as a means or getting privacy,

fresh air - and eleep. When the weath < ~e bad he does not go out. However, it he haa any engagement he dieregarda the elements. In any parade he uses an open car regardleee or the weather. He demands the same tor hie entire entourage, Hitl er sars: •ve are not bourgeois but sold1era.• Sight .- To be with Hitler, particularlr at night, ie an ordeal tor people with eeneitive eyes. Dr. Sedgwick vaa aometimes driven to dietraction in the early houre ot the morning by the bri lliant light Hitler alvsys i ne1ete on having all round him. Dr, Sedgwick vas forced to the con- ...... l - olue1on that Hitler' • eyee were not normal, which might have been caused by gae poiaoning in the Fall or 1918 when c.. , : . '' 0 ' - 14 - he almost went blind, This factor very likely comes into play in his artistic tastes and 1n the manner in which he Judges paintings. Only very bright colore really satisfy him, Up to 193? he never wore gle.sses or any ltind or any protection against sun glare, even in the snow. or late Dr. Sedgwick understands that on account·or headaches eauaed by his eyes he has had to follow the advice of his physicians and now weare reading glasses. He probably re­ sisted this aa long as it was poasible !or him to do so, Partly !rom vanity and partly through his contempt for the 1 Profeaeor Type• spectacles have always been a nightmare tor him. Voice,- H1s voice possesses a typically Austrtan metallic sonority and timbre. In general he talks softly but he is quite capable on occasion or launching out into a forceful speech even with only one or two people present,

The clich~ story or his screaming loudly is not true and is much exaggerated, Contradiction in public rarely in­ duces very loud replies. It is different during office houre; - then anything may lead to a 'grande scene• and he will lose his temper. He has special drinks made for hi!l' before and after

(_~ a speech to soothe his voice and probably now has his throat sprayed regularly before speaking.

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exercise and Speaking le reall 7 bla chlet f orm or irati on. He 1s ( aftera a peeob he will be bathed in perep he hae talked h1me elr probably only happy and reattul when , . to the point of awooning from exhaustion 1mpr1eonment Sleep.- He aleepa very badly alnce hie draft every night, He at Landaberg. He takea acme sleepi ng hen hie laat friends goee to bed ae l ate aa possible and w n the morning or even leave hi.m exhausted at two or three i afraid to be alone. later 1t 11 almoat aa though be we r e dawn. However, Sometimes he i• unable t o aleep until when he receives hie he usually manages to sleep until ten Funk. He dlellkea two eecretariee or State, Lamm ers and Winter bae a atove central beating 1n the bedroom and 1n made of Dutch tll ee (Kacheloten) . rox and a wolf. Reactions . - He ie a mixture between a and eometlmee even a Re playe the r ox ae long a e poaei ble r eady to emerge. lamb but 1n the e nd the wolf le nlwaya or 1920 up t o 19)~ It 1e i nteresting that 1n t he early days and ln the conversa­ hla secr et name tor telephone meeeagea W1nn1tred Wagner still tion• or hle f r l ende vaa • wo1r•. Fr au calla hi m by th1e name. certai n Re la astonishingly brave, In the year 192~ treet fighting ln whi ch phasea or the Party were decided by s lmpr1aonment ln Landsberg he was always courageous. After hie

c ..• -11- or aesaeaination, he vae continually in increasing danger but if he deoi dee ( Re doee not particularly seek out danger, out the pre­ that a thing muat be done, he calml y thinks with the Job oautions to be taken and then goes through absolutely fearlessly. rema1ne It is a perfectly conscious bravery. He knows exactly calm and collected even in emergenc1e a and He faces the beat method or checkmating his enemies. He is very much pbyeical pain also with exemplary courage. afraid or the water and cannot swim. DIET om meat . Food.- He abstains almost completely fr with rice Upon rare occasions he ente a 11ttle chicken Dr. Sedgw1ck or emoked salmon as an appetizer. In 1932 Hitler would bad occae1on to watch hi a d1e¥ very closely. on an apple, get up in the morn1ng around 9:30 and breakfast butter and mermalade, hot milk or very weak coffee with rolla, medic1ne This breakfast was followed by doeea or Jul1ua Schaub, administered ~o him by his valet-secretary, today as then is a former pharmacist's apprentice, Schaub cona1sta in charge or Hitler1 a home med1cine cheat, ~h1ch for t he n1ght; or two classes or drugs: sleeping powders - 17 -

and digestive powders with which he starts the da7 and which ( are taken after every meal . Luncheon is supposed to be at 1 p.m. However, Hitler is almost i nvari ably one and half to two hours late - which drives hie major-domo, Kannenberg to despair. Hitler practically never has s normal appeti t e in Berlin but it improves markedly at Berchteegaden. Otto Dietrich, who suff ers from a weak digestion, often l eft his office at 1.0, went across t o the Kaiserhof and returne! half an hour later having had luncheon. He would then wait f or Hitler to arrive. While in Berl in t he slightest pretext would be welcomed by Hitler as an e xcuse tor still further postponing luncheon. He would usually have some soup, generally pea soup or tomato eoup with parmesan, followed by a special dish of omelett e with aepara- (- gus tips or muahrooma, spinach or cauliflower, and a green salad. At Berchtesgaden he has Bavarian disheo such ae yellow boletus mus hrooms with dumplings i . e.. • eteinp11 te mit knoedel. 1 For dessert he prefers Auatr1an pastries, pancakes or s ome cooked f arinaceous dish. At five o' clock he drinke coffee or tea wi th rum (:"" of medium etrength •:1 th baum- torte, 11nzer torte, nues torte, chokoladen-torte , or toast . ,

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Ha cannot reaiet diaeolving really good chocolate• i n his cortee, In the evening he i s supposed to dine at eight o'clock but i t is rare t or him to get t~ it until nine \ or later , The evening meal ia aimilar to luncheon usually

1 a vegetable plate i.e. 1 gemueeeplatte • Drink.- Beer and wine drinking he gave up after hil i.apri aonment in Landsberg. It he gets a cold he will aome-­ timea take hot tea vith rum in it. In July, 1934, Dr. Sedgwick brought him back Aome Jamaica rum. He aaid he would use it, but only when he had a cold, Hie private doctor ia a frequent gueet at hie table. It vas thiA young doct or, who in the eummer or 1933 aaved Brueckner'• lite after hie automobile accident in Berchteegaden. Hitle r then decided (- to have a private doctor always near bim i n order t o per­ . torm any necessary operation on the apot. Hi tler said: hole ~~ good doctor on the apot ia easily as important as a w platoon or guarda.• Smoking.- As a soldier Hitler smoked and drank beer, However, by 1922 and even earlier he had stopped what l ittle amoking he bad done. The motive given wae 1 t o i ncreaae hie capaci ty as a epeaker and his general etf i oiency,• It he ia (:' not going t o make a speech be tolerates smoking around b~ ,

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and even keeps eupplieo or sgokee tor hie friends. Smoking ( 1e never permitted during h1s speeches. This is also t rue tor the great Party rallies held outdoora at Nuernberg. Ho~­ ever, at these smoking 1a considered bad ettquette and hence and • never permitt ed. Hitler 1n~ardly eides w1 th the purists abeta1ners. In th1e he ~ae backed up by- F!eu and the Spartan 1 program of livi ng. I nwardly Hitler alwaye r el ented Roehm 1 epicurean habita and opulent Havana cigars. It people ask h1m regarding h1s ascetic l1te R1tler replies: 1 It I once tind that a th1ng 1e not good for me, ) hen I &top eating it. As I know that meat, beer and n1oot1ne 1njur e and 1mpa1r my constitution, I don't i ndulge in them at17 more. Such a deo1e1on ia taken once and tor always. Is t hat so wonderful?" PERSONAL PROTECTION H1tl.er and Rimmler decided that the beet me t hod would be that the pollee should alternate - one looking at t he prooese1on and one looking 1nto the cr owd. The pr.o­ oees1on itselt muat be convoyed 1n the style described to Bitler by Dr. Sedgwick ao that used by u. o. Secret Pollee tor t he protection or Woodrow Wilson. The ayetem oone1ats ot aotor oyolee on the right and l ett or t he ~ :r,1~Q i oar,

c ~~ ~· th ~ personage. ( .~ and two police oara following th~ Hitler ;, . 8. }IOli oe oar,. ; <· : e :: t r 1ct orders to accelerate ale; p , ) and run <' "'· 1 >.· ••"lc -..ho emerges froiD the crowd. (See

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Hitler always alta 1n the front seat next to the chauffeur, This gives him the protection of a bullet­ proof glass windscreen in front, the chauffeur on one aide, and members of the armed entourage behind him 1n the car. He 1a against armed men on the running board aa he thinks 1t looks overcautious to the crowd and also detracts from the triumphant and Joyful note which h11 appearance should elicit. Hitler has said that too clumAy a display of pre­ cautionary measures indicates a lack of security and sug­ gests to the crowd a k1nd of guilty weaknesA which would leave an odious impression. To H1mmler he once referred to this overemphasis on h1s personal safety ao giving a picture ot a 0 Tyrann aut Relsen•, ( When he 1a 1n residence at Berchteagaden he goes tor country walks 1n Indian file, with five or six armed guards 1n civilian clothes 1n front and five or six behind. On both a1dea of this cavalcade ar med patrols cover t he flanks at a distance of about one hundred paces. • These walks are always in the afternoon, never in the morning. The fact is that since 1933 and even earlier the (_ guarding of his person has become auch an importRnt probl em that he 1a virtually a prisoner and he knowa it, This results 1n a desire to escape from this imprisonment either

by seeing friends, moving pictures or r1d1ng in an autoc~bile , (_ ' ' - 21 - - Hitler once said to Dr . Sedgwick: "If you come down ( to lt, I am very much in the position or the Pope, who tor e1m1lar and other reaeone has to remain confined in the Vatican. That iA why the whole quadrangle or the Wilhelmatraeae must eooner or later be added to the Reichskanlei area and sur­ rounded with colonnades for wal king in bad weather. That would hold good also for my succeesor and his succeeeore. • This was said at the Reichakanzlei in the summer or 1934 with what seemed a special emphasis tor Goering, who wae sit­ ting at his right. ENTERTAINMEllT All his domestic dtversions are planned by Herr Artur lannenberg. In 1934 Kannenberg was in tears about the ever­

1 ( lasting horseplay or Brueckner and the other members of Hitler & '-. entourage and finally Dr, Sedgwick was a&ked if he could not tind a Job tor him in the Untted Statee, Kannenberg is a rat, witty Berliner who can sing and play the piano, He is in charge of the kitchens and he and hie wife cook and test wverything for Hitler. Music,- The music disliked by Hitler is mainly

confined to the Classics, particularly ~uaic by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms. To theee renderings he listens only wi th relative attention. c •

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He enjoya gypoy music , rhapsodiee ond c1:ardaa aleo music by Lint and the drea.m,y music or Gri'eg . Wagner, Verdi and certain p1ecee by Chopin and Richard Strauae delight him. Music which doee not 11ft him out of hie sent

by its sensuoue app~al leaves him cold, About 85 per cent or Hitkr' e pref er ence& 1n mue1c are the normal program mueic in Viennese car'•· It 1s doubtless the vagabond 1n H1t! er 1 s make-up which givea him such a kick out or Llezt. The changes from de j ection to triumph are what makee him like Magyar mueio such ae the Rakocszy. The Viennese music or the Lehar and Johann Strause type wae only appreciated by Hitler after he came t o power. Tristan acta as a dope to him. If he is. facing an ( ~ ' unpleaaant situation he likes to have Me1etere1nger played to him, Sometimes he would recite entire paaeagee or the Lohengrin text. Dr . Sedgwick was amazed to find that he knew the whole thing by heart , probably memories from h.i a early 1f1ennese dllYI. Hs aleo uses a gramophone f or hie favorite opera•. He i1 partial to Verdi operas whi ch he really know• very well. In 1923 he adored American f ootball marches and

college songe . The · ~ ~!" used i n all poli tical ralllee

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11 a direct copy or tho technique ueod b7 American football ( cheer leaders. American College type or mueic va e ueed to excite the German maeaea who had been uaed to very dry-~a­ duet political lectures, Hitler's technique or arriving late t or almoat all ralliee vae deeigned t o give the cr ovd time to get worked up by the martial mue i c and to get acquainted with one another. Hitler rarely attended concerts but often vent to the opera, He doee not like to eit in a rev; he muet have hie own private box. Mueic ie more t o him a period or reet and thought than a pleasure, It hae a triple function: to isolate him from the world; relexation; and excitement - apur to action. In difficult times Goebbele r eeorte not infrequentlJ to doping Hitler with epeechee of all vintages by Hi tler, Thio never falls to put him into a good humor. Dancing.- Hitler never dances himself. He coneidere it unworthy or a Stateeman, but ie more than willing to watch othera f or a time. Thie may be aeeociated vtth an inner desire for erotic adventure by proxy. The demi-mon~aine character or , t he vomln in queet1on do not by &nJ means lover his eenee of ~ appreciation.

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Tbeatre .- He very rarely went to the theatre, ( Vaudeville.- He l i kee vaudeville , C1roue.- Me lovea the oircua. The thrill or unde~ paid performer• rieking their livee ia a r eal pleasure to him , He ia particularly pleased with tight rope acta and

trape~e artiata, Arter hie imprisonment· in Lanneberg he came to lunch at Dr. Sedgwi ck'• houee in 1926 and when Dr , Sedgwick waa called to the telephone he eaid to Mra. Sedgwick: "Now we'll have to try all over again, but thia time you can be certain that I won' t tall trom the tight rope !• During the aummer ot 19JJ he we nt aeveral timee to the oircue and on the next day he would eend tlowera and chocolatea to the value or several hundred marka to the girle, who had performed dangerous teata before him. He remembered t he namee ot these people and i n the event or an accident to one or them would concern hi ms elf with what happened to them or to their surviving relativea. Upon one occaaion after reading the account 1n a newspaper he aent a meeaage ot aympa thy to the family ot a trapeze artiat ~no wae killed 1 during her act, (Nb. The appeal or the non-bourgeoie - the gypey milieu or c1roua artiste. •) He doee not care much t or wild animale acta, unleae

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INFOIUIATION ( the ~.- Hitler haa a consuming passion to learn lateat newa, rr aomeone oocea into the room with a handful con­ or newapapera, he will atop abruptly the moat important newa, •eraation and snatch the papers to find out the latest He haa realized for many yeara that almost all information, serve no matter how varied of how apparently unimportant, can ) hie own purposes at some particular moment, When he goes to bed he always takea an armful or illuetrated periodicals, including American magazines and quantitiee of magazines on Naval and Military matters. [email protected] He haa a radio 1n all the principal roome and on every floor. Theae are gener~lly worked by Iannenberg, Goebbela or Schaub. Whenever Muesolin1 broadcaeta Goebbela arrangee ror Hitler to listen. He derive• profound pleasure from the Italian pronunciation, enunciation, and the dramatic oratory or Il Duce , Here ae in music the same holds tuue: What il full or fire, lite and drama rascine.tea him. What ia not dramatic doee not interest Hitler, Movies.- Almost every night or every other night Hitler aeea a picture in hie private theatre in the are .'Chancellery. Goebbels aecurea ror h1m p1cturee which forbidden to be shown publicly in Germany . These cona1at

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Com­ mai nly ot foreign motion picture• ~hich might oauae e, mun iat1c and ot her demonatratione during the performanc He enjoy• newt r eeb , particularly · tho"ee featuring at a himeel t . He l l kea comediea and ~ill laugh heartily

Je~ i a h einger a nd Vi l l l &y Je~i •h comedi an. He eYen l i kea a an! after ward that it i e t oo bad he or ahe ii not an Ary Moviea are made ot political priaonera and exe­ There cutione Rnd thie . aatiet l ee hie eadiet1c insti ncto. ~ • ht. ie r eaaon to bel ieve that Heinrich Hoffmann &lao aho por nog.r aph1o phot ographa and mov1ea. t Um ot t he He ~ae particularly 1nter eeted in t he U • urder ot Marae111ea ot ICi .ng Al exander and Jean Lou at hU Barthou. Prime Min ister ot France, Wi th Hilllllller er to .tde he eav t he picture twice at one aitting in ord e decided analyze t he mistake• mad e by the F rench Sur ett , H olice; and t hat these er r or• ~er e: the use ot Mounted P only Police armed wi th aaber e, At such a moment horeea oot ot cauee panic and do not get quickly enough to t he r y guarded the t r ouble . The at reeta ~er e alec inoutticientl on the aidelinee by poli cemen. RELIGI ON Hit l er bel ieve• in t he method ot the Catholi c Church, by a con~tant ~ whi ch kno~e ho~ to build up a ment al ~orld, · f certain and peri odi c r epeti t i on throughout t he Church year o

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paeeegee in the Scriptures. This leads to these chapter• ( aeeuming a elogan-like concentration in the brains or the hearere. The brain or the good Catholic is eo furnished with elogana that hie reaction to any experience is praotteally automatic. His totalitarian anti-Christiania= waa due to the Hess - Rosenberg influence during his imprisonment. For ten years after Hitler's release t here waa no outward ex- pression or this reeling until his appointment or Rosenberg in 1934 aa supreme inspector ror the spiritual - political training or all German youth. On that dey Hitler threw orr the mask which he had worn until then. He decided to abandon the Christian symbolism or Richard Wagner (cr. Wagner'• Parairal) aa well aa H. s. Chamberlain's "Christian Aesthetic

Conservatism. ~ METAMORPHOSIS IN LANDSBERG The curious change which I had noticed in Hitler after his release from Landsberg at Christmas, 1924 became gradually clearer to me. He had been there with Roehm and Heaa and had become very intimate with both or them. Young Heaa particularly was in his thoughts the whole time. "Ir only I could get him out or Landsberg,• he used to aay, 1 Me1n Heaserl." "I can't f orget the way hie eyee filled with tears when I lett the f ortress. The poor rellow.• c • •. ' - 28 ..

I had noticed when vloiting Hitl er at the fortress that he •as on 1 du• terms wit h Rudolf Ress, but it va1 curi ous to note that artet· He cs ' s release in 1926 be dropped the 1 du• and al ways referred to Hitl er a1"Mein Fuehrer•. In f act it was He ss who consciously began buildi ng up the equlvnlent of a Duc e- cult rampant' i n Italy. Thil wa1 disagreeable to t he old mo·abr- r 1 of the Party who continued to use the familiar, informal "Herr Hitler• ae a mode or addreeelng hi m. It was at t his time tha t Hitl er's admiration f or Musa ol1n1 reached its hei ght . In addition to tran sl~ t i ng t he Mussolini-Duce cult into terma of a "•!eln Fuehrer Cult1 Heee tried, evidently with 1ome aucce ee, to imbue Hi t ler afre1h with the Geopoli­ tical theorlea and doctrines e ~n natlr.g from the 1tudy or ( the Bavarian r etired Gener al, Professor Max Hauahofer. Among

t hes e theoriea the moat 1~port nn t 1 ~ 1tmot1v vaa t he central position reserved for the Japa nese Empi r e and Nipponese po~er­ potent1al1tiea in the Pacific Oc ean. To Hau ehofer the future or t he twentieth centur y wa s P,O ing t o be largel y de t ermined by the expansion or the J apanes e people and their Empi re. Another f act or whi ch qui t e evident ly datee back to the Landsberg prison peri od of Hitl er 1a t he proba- f!!' bill ty that during this perioa or h ola t1on and a en~.&l privation an affi ni ty with Hes' began to crystal l ize which

to rAY mind might have posslbl ~· bordered on the sexual.

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Arter Roeha 1 e aeeaseination (June ~ . 1934) when I

learned o~ He:c 1 e nickname among homo s exual member• or the party ¥aa •rraeulein Anna• and that it vas notorioue that he had attended balls dreeeed in female attire--my thought• re­ turned to t he Landeberg period ten years earlier . It vaa only t hen t hat certain hit herto uneuep e c~ed and unnoticed om1noue traits 1n Hitler's character began to occupy my attention. It vas t hen--after Roehm 1 1 assaasination--that emall driblets or i nf or mation reaching me from time t o time compelled me to r egard Hitler ae a aado-masochictic type or man with possibly even a homos exual etreak 1n h1m. (Cr. He11 and von Sch1rach, etc.--all or them abnormal) . When 1n March, 1937 I ehoved Bitler'• handwtit1ng t o Jung at Zuerich, he eaid dryly: "Hinter dieser Schrift 1st n1chts ale e1n ( 1 grosse a Weib . 1 SEXUAL LIFE The Vlenns Perlod.- Hitler' • stay 1n Vienna began 1n

1909. This WAll the first time 1 n hie 11fe that he became acquainted wi th metropolitan prostitution. Reading between

the lines or 1 Mein ~empr• it 11 quite poss i ble t o suppose that at this time he became 1ntected w1th some venereal dieease by a Jewish prostitut e . 1 . "Behind this handwr1t1ng· I r e cogn1~e t he typi cal characteristics or a man with essenti ally rem1n1ne 1nat1ncts. •

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The Men'• Hostel called "Naennerheim Brigittenau• ( in Vienna had, Dr. SedgWick believee, the r eputation or being a place whe r e elderly men went in eearoh or young 1 men t or hocosexual pleasuroe. It i s probable that these types of old ro~s and young g igolos became fam iliar to t he young Adol f at this t ime whi ch would account for his relative lack of genui ne disgust with t hem up t o tho present time. During this eo-called "Vienna-period" Mra, Brig1d Hitl er states that Adolf Hitl er saw a great deal of hie cri minal halt-brother Aloia II, who was bummi ng around Vi enna . In Dr. Sedgwick's opinion it is unlikel y that Hitler indulged in any homosexual r elationship at this time but rather repre­ type of egocentric and maeturbic ( . eente ~, as he does today, the occa­ ' Narcissus with the craving tor the untlndable woman and eiona1 hyeterical outbursts of a aado-maaochietic nature. Anal ysis.- Hie sex life i s dual as is hie political outlook. He ia both homosexual and hetero-sexual; both Socialist and fervent Nationali st; both man and woman. While the true Adolf Hitler is elusive to t he diagnosti cian, ther e are certain facta which prove that • i• eexual situation is

untenable and even dc~perate. There eeem to be psychi c if l. This informati on was given to Dr . Sedgwi ck 1n 1938 by a member or the former Dolltuss regime, Herr von Seidler, who ie now in the u.s.A. - :n-

not also physical obstacles which make real and complete (. sexual fulfill ment ever i mpossible • In general, what he seeks is halt-mother and halt­ sweetheart. Since 1933, hOt/ever, he a lao obtains esthetic satisfaction from adolescent boys or girls. However, above

all the dominant factor remains , which i~ frus tration, be­ cause of not finding the woman he needs in everyday lite he has escaped into brooding isolation, and artifically dramatized publi: life. For example, obvious prostitutes barely admitted to the Iaiserhot Hotel were fervently admired by him pro­ vided thnt they appeared in couples or with a man. A soli­ tary woman ia usually ignored by him unless he is in a large c crowd and can send an A.D.C. to find out her identity. He always wishes to be a spectator.

1 Do you know", he once said to Dr . Sed~ick in l 1923, 1 the audience at the circus is Just like a woman. Someone who does not understand that intrinsically feminine character of the mass will never be an effective speaker. Ask yourself what does a woman expect trom a mant Clearness, decision, power, action. Like a woman the masses fluctuate

1. 1 Die Masse, das Volk 1st w1e ein Weib." between ext remee. What ve want ie to get the maseee to act. This can obviously not be done with an appeal to their eelt-.. ishneea nor to their cowardi ce, but by an appeal to their idealism, their courage and their spirit or eaor1fioe, Who hae more the spirit or sacrifice than a woman? It abe it talked to properly t he will be proud t o ' acrifioe, because no woman will ever feel that her l ite's sacrifices haYe re- ,, ceiYed their due f ulfillment . Once Dr. Sedgwick asked him: •wny don't you marry and t ool your enemies?•

Hitler answered: "Marriage is not t or me ~nd never will be. My only bride is my Motherland. • Then seemi ngly with no .sequence or i deas he added: "There are two ways by which a man ' 8 character may be Judged, by the wome..n he marries, ( and then by the way he dies.•

In 1923, when Dr, Sedgwick once pl~ytully aaid: 1 It not a bride you ought t o have a mi stress . • Hitler replied: "Politics i8 a woman; he who loves her unhappily 1 ehe bites orr hi e head•.

Some time l~ter while speaking ot women Hitler occas­ i onally quoted the Ruaaian proverb. •rr you go t o a woman don't f orget your wh i p .• This was said with the i dea that 1. 1 D1e Polit1k 1at e1n We1b , wer ale ungluckl1ch 11ebt, dem beisat s1e den Kopt ~b .• . ., . - 33-

man ahould be the maeter of the erotic cttuatton. Anyone Vbo

haa ever ae~n Hitar talking i n a baahtul and puerile way to a woman would eaaily be l ed t o bel ieve that in ma r r iage he would be the underdog, but that ia manifeatl y wrong. It would eeem that the whip plays some JI\Y&t erioue ,.ole in hia r elationship to women . In Dr. 3edgwick' e opinion duri ng almost fifteen yeare of association with Hitler, the whip with which Hitler lovee t o geet1culate figure• a e a klnd ot aubstitute or auxiliary eymbo l tor hia missing eexual potency. All thia wielding of the whip s eems to be connected with a hidden deaire on the part of Hitl er tor eome etate ot erection which would overcome hie fundamental aexual in-

terior ity complex. ~he truth is that Hitler 1• i n all pro~ ability still in the etage or puberty, and still in the ( ' eaeential meaning of t he word a virgin. Whether Hitler's habit of carrying nnd gesticulating with a whip, even while talking to a woman, ie a memory-reaidue ot hie whip-carrying, &Qdietic father must be l ett an open question . It cert ainly f orma a curi ous phenomenon t hat the 'whip-motive' oooure eo f r equently in Hitler 's erotic and political technique and that it l i nks itself, oonsci ou1ly or unconsciously, wi t h another or hie complexes; "The (; Meeeiah- Complex•. What ie meant wil l be aeen from the t ol- l owing incident, - ~·- In June, 1923, Dr, Sedgwick visited Berchteegaden at Hitler's invitation but at hie own expense, At that time Hitler owned no house there but was staying at the Pension Moritz, whose Manager wae Herr B\leohner, a German flyer of World War I and who had a strikingly buxom e1x root tall, blonde wife, which made her taller than Hitler • . This rather vulgar, eenauoua, blue-eyed woman bad manifestly auooe4ded in completely inflaming Hitler to a degree that made him eeem entirely beyond himself, Hie breath was short, hie oheekl feverish, his eyes filled with exaltation, In a swash­ buckling manner Hitler vae strutting up and down the large verandah and garden, swinging hie whip. He would atop now and again to talk to Frau Buechner, whip in band, punctuating hie eentencee with the whip in a schoolboy fashion. He was oue obviously ahowing orr talking at Fr~u Buechner and the numer •gallery• of admiring females, all Party adherents, He made, however, no impression on Fr~u Buechner. On and on he went through the whole afternoon acting the desperado, the wild man, the man or destiny. The whole performance seemed hope­ lessly pubescent and empty, Anton Drexler and hie w1fe who were simple, nice people did not 11ke th1s spectacle. Drexler was one of the rounders of the Party and hie wife one or the mo st i mportant ·. •a. • • • - :55 - women members. They thought 1t undignified and acandaloua and

( eapecially so because Frau Buechner wae a ma rried woman tlhich gave to the whole thing an adulterous aspect. But there wae another person preaent, who also criticited Hitl er, Dietrich Eckart, the poet. He waa a fairly large, etoutish man with an impressive, bald head, small, twinkling eyes, a etentorian voice and a sort Bavarian heart. He was entirely a man or the world and n tree-thinker, but nonetheless was revolted by Hitler' s exhibitionism. It so happened that a shortage or rooma that night obliged him. to share hia room with Dr. Sedgwick. When they retired in the evening he poured f orth the following: •You ought to have been here yesterday. You ought to have been here this morning. The way Adolt ia carrying on now goee beyond me. There's nothing you ( can tell him any more . The man is plainly craty. Walking up and down with his whip, talking to that silly cow, Frau Buechner, he went eo far as to describe hia last visit t·o Berlin. Bitler aaid: •when I came to Berlin a rew weeke ago and looked at the traffic in the Kurfuerstendamm, the luxury, the perversion, the i niquity, the wanton die,lay, and the Jewish me terialiem disgusted me eo thoroughly, that I was almost beside myself. I nearly imagined myself to be Jeeua Christ when he came to his Father's Temple and round - 36-

it taken by the money-ehnngere. I can well imagtne how he felt when he eei%ed a whip end scourged the~ out.• Hitler accompanied this speech with violent agitations or hie whip aa though to drive out the Jewo and t.he torcea or darkness, the enemies or Germany and German honor. That ie really going too tar. When a man gets to the pOint or identifying himself with the Messiah then he is r1~e for an insnne a,ylum, like Nietzsche was .• This story i e of cepital importance. It links up the sex-starved, whip-wielding, sadistic Hitler with the imago of the Messiah scourging the Jewish money-changers from the Temple . The story has the further significance that it demonAtaatee in almost ol1n1cal pr~c1sion the cause of Hitler'• , explosion into politics. The whitt-wielding Narcissus sub­ ( limates h1s miserable state into the Messiah pattern, lashing the •remlnine" crowd with h1s oratory into terrirled sub­ mission whil e t he wh1p-w1eld1ng s.s. cohorts do the rest - with the money-chP.ngers and other •Messiaa Teuton1cus Red1vtvt.:A" .

( •. .. - ~? - t, The da7 attar hie oonvereation with Dietrich Eckar ed on Dr. Sedgwt ok l ett the Pensi on Mer i t~ . He vae accompani ot hie hi e walk down to Berchteegaden by Hitler and acme that Eckart triende but not by Eckart. Hitler must have f elt Hitler had been criticizing hla. Soon attar they at a.rted t urned the oonvereation ont o Ecknrt. ,• 1 Dietr1oh Eckart has r eally become an old peeeimiet love With Hi t l er said, •a aeni l e weakling, who baa fallen i n hi a . He thie gi rl Annerl , who 1e thir tJ yeare younger than 1 ' Peer ie ae undecided ae Hamlet or rather he i e lUte I bsen' never Gynt•, ¥hioh he translated onl1 too well, a man who no good. knave what he wants. Sohopenhauer hae done Eckart l ooks f orward to He hae made him • dou~~1nc Tho~a a, who only hie trane­ a Nirvana. Wher e would I get i f I l i stened to all r educe oendental talk? A ni ce ult imate wisdom t hat! To ie gone onael r to a ainimua or deei r e and will. Once will all ie gone. This l i f e ia War. • He raved on and on against Eckart, partly because himself Eckart had ahovn hi e dieapproval ot Hi tler comparing ously t o the Keaa1ah, and part l y because Hitler vas furi with a young girl. envi ous ot Eckart'~ having fallen in love e The conver sat ion changed and Hi tler started to vbietl

1 in a curioua eott c' the 1 Svan Stng trom Lohengrin. He d~d thie t. Then t remolo, "W hich be kept up bot h breathing in and ou

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again followed outbursu aga1nat Eclt~~.rt who= he called an old ( t ool as though he wanted to make eure t o discredit abaolutoly anything Ecltart •ight have eaid to Dr. Sedgwick, vho vaa there-­ b)' made all the more certain that what Eckart had eaid vaa oor.rect. There vaa another oauae tor Hitler'• raving in that vay and trying to diacredit Dietrich Eckart. Anton Drexl er and hie wife had been up at the Penaion Korit& and together v1th Dietrich Eckart and others they had been diecuseing the paet and the future ot the Party. They had all agr•eed that

10 rar t he year 1923 had not succeeded in achieving the results whi ch Hitler had propheoied. At that time t here wa s a large conservative majority ot emall bourgeois el emente, headed by the Drexlere, vho ( f objected t o tho lavl eee and revolutionary course vhich Hitler and Ro senberg wer e pursuing. They were dieeatietied vith Bitl er 's continual proaiees ot aecuring power i n Bavaria in t he courae ot a tev weelt a. Theae promieea, given i n the •iddle ot January, 1923, when the French had occupied the Ruhr, were conatant l7 r enewed tor the succeeding five =ontha. People like Drexler , Eaaer, Eckart, and Feder had begun to aee that Hitler'• plane tor immediate and violent aotion f were attracting an increasing bunch or deaperados t o the Party inatead ot substantial Sooial1ets trom t he worki ng clan who wanted t o bui ld up the Party machi ne throughout Germany until pover could be obtai ned through aheer weight ot nucbera vi t h (. relatively little violence. •. .. - ~9

Theee aalcontent e had eeen clearly the intention of ( Hitl er Yhich vae to copy the methode of Muacol1n1, who had aome months previously auoceeded in hie "March on Rome•. However, they aleo remembered t hat the March on Rome vae far better prepared, by a Party nu~erically enormously atronger, beaded by such men aa Michele Bianchi, I ~ftlO Balbo, General de Bono and General de Vecchi, and thct t he March vaa under­ taken on the tacit invitation of Victor EmmRnual I II . Tpe March succeeded i n be ing carried out bloodleaaly because of ita very oareful preparation. Eckart enid t o Dr . Sedgwick: • suppose ve even succeeded in f aking Mun ich by a Putsch, Munich i a not Berlin. It would lead to nothing but ulti mate t a1lure .• It vee at thia t ime t hat t he German and Conti nental opposition preea b egan to apeak or Hitler aa the vest-pocket Muaaollni, making fun ot hla failures to t ake over power on be Nay 1, 192~ . when the Nat ional Sociali st bftttali one had to

hasti ly disarmed ~y Captain Roehm. I t waa this lack ot actual power and lack of support which ruade a march on Berl in mi l i tari ly lmpoeeible and which drove Hitler to aee hi meel r in the role or the Messiah wi th ~ eoourge marching on "that Babel or a1n• (Berlin) at the head or a emall gang or dee- ~ peradoe, who would inevitably be t ollo~~d by more and more ot the dieeatiefl ed el ements throughout t he Reich. . . e Eugen or SavoJ Hitl er quoted the motto or Princ hLc eome monthe bef ore : "You ( which Dr. Sedgwick had ehown that ie no r eason t o hesitate, epeak or t he lack or eupport • mar ch, then eupportere will when the hour ie ripe . Let us find themselves.• to accept the Even then ae later Hitl er rerueod iamentarian el ement• within advice or the ooneervative parl compromiee with them wo•lld the Party, knowing well that any 's r uture ~essiah. "Allee nullity his dreams or being Germany oder nichta• •••

SELF IDENTI FICATION PATTERNS J e rollowing expoce Intooduott on.- The purpose or th r auto-suggestion i n t he career ie t o show t he i mportant rol e' o ( or Hitler. s oldiers, Hi tler Rimeel f, only one or the many unknown in the i nti rc:.cry or Pasewalk made it known earl y t hat while rro~ another wor ld above (Fall or 1918) he received a command is vocation reached Hitler i n to eave hie unhappy country. Th He deci ded to become a the .rorm or a supernatural vision. rel t t hat hie miss i on wae to politic i an then and t r.ere. He ng th1e miea1on Hitler he.a made tree Gcrt!lt~ny . In ..ru l !il li uee or a number or aelt-identi!1cat1ona. • - , - 41 waa A, The tirat noti ceable identitioation pattern t hat or the "drummer•. the be­ At a number or meetings which took p laoe at eter to hi meel t ae the ginning or the year 192~, Hitler would r or liberation to drummer marching ahead or a great movement or an announcer come . He had the idea that hie r ole waa that aome day, He d1d ot a new epoch. The great leader wae to come e waa a note or subser­ not yet eee h1maelr as tbia leader. Ther ary oaote. vience to Ge neral Luedendorrr and the milit Hitler It waa about t hil time that Dr. Sedgwick advieed aa being t he e quivalent to l tudy the Lutheran Bible, whi ch ae well literature cont ai ns a or the well-tempered clavichord in German uaetul in the tight perfect arsenal or t or cetul paeaages, highly aui ted t or B:.varia, aga1net t he athe1at1c Bolsheviks, and doubly (~ the home ot the Oberammergau Passion Plays, e Party waa It muat be remembered that at that t ime t h ed 1 poeitive Chrietian1ty•, righting r~r what their progr am call ' The Kyth or the Twen­ and that Rosenberg' a ant1-Chr1et1an book tieth Century• had not yet been written. quotations It waa not long before Hitler began to uae aliete at that time trom the Luther an Bible, The National-Soc1 War I had opened a new were oppoeed by many people t o whom World quotations evoked rel1g1oue, paoit ist1c out loot. end Hitler's h1a audience, Soon an eapecl ally war m response on the par t or - 4.2 ...

one ot aelt-ident­ Hitler began t o vary the "drummer pattern• to !tlcatlon with J ohn the Baptiat. calling Hitler ueed practically tho worda ot St. Matthew, deacribing hie duty h1maelt a voice crying i n tho wllderneaa and waa t o lead the aa having t o atraighten t he path or him, who made a tre~ e ndou a nation to power and glory. Paasegea llke theae denote a diaarmlng iapreaalon on hie aud1encea. They aeemed to Arc. In hie ec­ aimplicity and modeety , r eminiecent ot Joan ot d 1 0rleana, aeemed ataaiea aa an ora tor Hitler, like La Puoelle above - voicoa to hear voices from Valhalla from oome Heiligland

which or~ered him t o eave Germany. 4rop­ Since 1933 t he "drummer pattern• haa been totally Nazi hiatoriana ped, - the drumm er having become the Fuehrer. uaed to call even go ao tar as to deny altogether thPt Hitler tho racta to himself only "tho drummer•. They have raleitied enemiea not ho auch an extent that they claim it waa Hitler'• a great drummer - himaelt who reterr ed to h1m as a drummer - aa and that in order to kill hie chances t or supreme leadorehlp t o have a neg- reference to Hitl er ae t he drumm er waa meant the 1 atlve i nf luence on h1s qualifications. t he Hitler and [email protected] In t ho aame way the "John or t hat tho Baptist pattern• ia muted entirely. I nstead f book ent itl ed "Two t houaand yearo or ' See Herman Lo&ach's . \. German Revolution• , p. 262 ot ~· Loip~ig , lg3?

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In Dr. Sedgwick1 e deification of Hitler 1a progreeaing steadily. not· be long before ( belief 1t Egypt ahould ever tall it would a second Alexander, a Hitler would viait the Oao1e or Siva, as

demigod~ c tendenciee In order to combat Roeenberg' s ~theiati · trying to prove to Dr. Sedgwick frequently talked to Hitler, the attacks on Chria­ him how wrong 1t would be to continue in med the first aocialiet tianity, aa Christ himself could be t er and Christ1snity were in the nietory or the world. The Bible imagination or the tar rrom played out in their hold on the Paris, only sixteen German people and that even in atheistic at the Parle salon during years ago, a picture had been exhibited on the Cross with the cap­ the summer or 1907 which showed Christ the Nazarene, King tion •Le Premier Socialiete• , and not "Christ made a tremendous im­ ot the Jewe• . Thie over-lite- oize canvas was crowded with preaeion and the room in which it wae exhibited - all Part~ in tact officers, bueineaa men, students, priests inoluding the demi-monde. Dr. Sedgwick told Hitler that 1f t his Chrlst-Socieliat it muet have the same bad made such a deep 1mpreaaion 1n Parle why he did not use ettect in Catholic l-lur1ich. He naked Hitler which would help this Christ-Socialiet ae a point of departure opposition more than l: to eilence the cler ical and ~ aeudo-clerical anything alee. • • . .. . . - 4 4 -

Hitler promlPed t ~ think it over and undoubtedly con­ ( eulted Rosenbers on the subject aa the euggest lon interested

1 j' him deeply. To Dr. Sedg~J i ck s ourpriee Hitler uaed an entircl different picture or Christ . At a meeting soon afterward i nste ~ or the Christ-Soclal let he u•ed the words: "I come to bring 1 you not pence, but a sword . " He ueed thie phraee to rebut t he pacitiete' idea or eternal peace. Hitler'• growing t endency to identity himself wlth t he Keaeiah i8 shown 1n an i ncldent which occurred in the spring or l92J. The 1 Muenchener N ~ ue r.t e Nachr.ichten•, t he moet lllidely r ead morning paper in ~:uni ch , publlehed the story or Hitler' 8 engagement to Dr. Sedgwick' s s later Erna aa a rumor. Ae t hi e vae a complete invention, j ~ . Sedgwick consulted with Hitl er ae to the beat method or r efuting it. Hi tler vaa very much 1 flattered by the rumor and ~hen preesed said: I author1~e you hereby to tell the preea t hat I ehall never engage myse l f to a woman nor marry a woman. The only true bride tor me i8 and alwaye will be the German Peopl e .• To anyone familiar w!th Chriotian literature the re- terence to Chriet'a true Srlde, the Church, comes to mind. Thie makee absolutely clear Hi tl.e r' o self-ident1t1cation with the Kee81ah. Tbua it 1a seen t hE• t Hi tler 1 • conception or the Mee alah ie not Christ crucifled but Christ turioue - Christ 1. cr. Earlier me ntlon or vhr iat with a ecourge.

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the He aaleh vlth 11 acourge. The connection between Hitler aa ( with a a oourge and Hitler the frustrated Narcieaua did not occur to Dr. Sedgwick until very r ecently. However, it 1a unqueati onably the f ormula by which t he moat incongruoua tea­ turea or Hitl er the Man and Hitl e r the Statesman can be reconciled and understood. Hitl er oac1ll'atee constantly be­ tween theee two peroon1ticat1one. Thie explai ns Hitler 1 & predilection t or tbe word brutal (pronounced i n German Brutahl) , which eo often high­ light • hie epeeohea, and wht ch be pronouncee with eepecial vehemence . He plaoea it with great etreea at the end or a aentence and accompan1ea 1t with hie fiercest expr eaeion. Attar he came into power, in 1933, Dr. Sedgwick t ried to make him aee that ln vlew ot the tact that the Party waa now i n power auch demagogic wor ds were really no longer necessary. Dr. Sedgwick wrote a l etter to Heee on t hat sub­ associating Jec t , warnl~g h1m ot the evil conaequencea or word t be word brutal with t~e Party becauee in German th18 1 1 1 e ceana • cruel• or ~~~o e rcileea but lin Engl 1ah Qeane • aavag or "bestial•. M1ll1one ot Englioh-apeak1ng people would r ead ng t he w ord brutal and ~~~o1aund er etan~ it. The dangerou~ thi waa t hat i t waa not being used by them but members ot the ~ Party who uaed t hia ter.n. No attention waa paid t o thia war ning. The word 0 brutal1 remained both in Hitl er' s vocabu­ lary and i n that or hundreda ot hie underlings. It became .I a cliche in all Na~ i oratory. (_ ..

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Hitler and Cromwe ll.- Besides admiring Croowell ae an enemy of Parli amentarianiem, Hi tler admires him also as the enemy 1 ot universal franchise, of Communism, and or Roman Catholicism. In Oliver Cromwell he admi r es the self- appointed

Dictator, th~ breaker .or the British Parllament, the creator of the British Navy, and to a l esser degree, the military leaner. That Cromwe ll, the Puritan, had t he courage to sign 2 the death w~rant of Charles I and have him b eheaded is of special a nd pathologi cal int erest.

Hi t l er and Frederick the Great. In regard to the lif~

ot Fren~riok the Great it i s the early perio.<\ ,· during ~<'hich the

young Prince is in violent oppo~1tion to hi• aged and stern soldter father, which has t he greatest tasci.nation for Hitler. The similarities of Frederick's own "arly llfe with that of Hitler's _childhood are so obvious. Fr ederick' a struggle against his f at.her Frederick Willlam I of Prussia and Hitler ' s ovn 1truggles with the brutal &nd whip-wi elding Aloia Sch1ckelgruber­ H1tl er show clear sioilar1t1es. But 1t is anomalous t hat in this(rare) case Hitler shoul d side partially Withf t he ather. Dr, Sedgwick remembers t hat 1n the sprinK of 1923 he took Hitler to see a then f amous tUm ."The Life of Frederick the Gr ea t.• In one scene the t yrannical f &ther ordered his 1. In 1923 on the occa sion of Hi tJ.er Is bi r thday Dr . Sedgwick pointed out to Hitler tha t his bi rthday coincided with the date (April 20) 11hen Cromwe!l cl osed Parliament. 2. cr. Hitl er 1 a Leitmotiv of 1930 "Heads will roll" .

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eon'• French booke and mueic burnt. When the Prince proteeted ( hie father etruck him in the face. ~itler aat enthralled. Dr. Sedgwick eaw him nod vigorously when the Prince vae brought back to hie father after trying to escape his Spartan lite as a Prussian soldier by absconding to England. The Prince'• friend and abettor in this planned flight, Herr von Katte, vas taken prisoner, The King orders both of them tried before a military tribunal for high treason. The tribunal decides that they ahall both be imprisoned. The King enters the court room, reado the verdict aloud and says •Mot good!• He then tears up the pa rchment and orders the court to condemn them to death. •Better than they die than that Justice should fa11, • The young Prince is finally condemned to only two yeara in a fortres s while Katte is be- beaded. In the big scene the scaffold is shown with the block, , the executioner, and the axe. Soldiers form a hollow square around it. Xatte mounts the s caffold and the camera avinge by ht. up to a window ~here the Prince, Who hae been ordered father to witness the execution, ia etanding. The two friends ce collapaee • • • exchange gl~ncea, The drums roll. The young Prin When Dr . Sedgwick and Hitler left the theatre, Hitler whistled the theme of the Frederick - March. He - 48-

said that Albert Steinrueck (died 1928 ) hnd played the part ( or the father euperbly. "It ie imposinr, to think that old ling would have beheaded his own son t o enforce discipline. That ie how all German youth will have to be brought up some 4ay. That is the way German justic e ohould be handled. Either acquittal or beheading." Here again is the same leitmotiv : "Heads will roll.• Another angle or the life of Frederick the Great which interested Hitler at the time was Frederick's tolerance in religious matters. It cannot be emphasized enough. that prior to his imprisonment in Landsberg Hitler was quite willing to copy Frederick's tolerant policy toward the Church, based on his famous phrase: 1 Let everyone travel to Heaven 1n his own fashion. • Httler and Bluecher.- Bluecher hll o always been a source or inspiration to Hitler. Bluecher was and remains the symbol

of German Faith and Courage. The man i s eA~ressed in one word •vorwaerts" (Onwards). Marshal Vorwaerts as Bluecher was celled by the people, must be regarded as the dr1vlng force against Napoleon. In 1923 when Dr. Sedgwick had played tor almost two houra at a etretch to Hitler he suddenly eaid "Why don't you get somebody to write a film on Bluecher , Marshal Vorwaerte? He is one of the gr eatest Germans whc· hna every lived and more . \ • I - 49 -

Germane above important to ua today than Rembrandt or Goeth~. Bluecher' a all must be brought up to be courageous. It was which made courage and his t echnioue of pef?etual attack It wae the Rapoleon lose hie nerve at Leipzig and W~terloo. • of Waterloo courage of that old man which turned the battle into a catastrophe.• Hi tler and Naooleon.- In 1923 Hitler's admiration

Th i ~ admiration t or Napoleon was an out standing f eature . Napoleon as sprang from several causes; hi s admiration t or Mussolini 1 s · a man and aa a German, and his Admiration t or 1932 Hitler's auocese t ypifying a Bonaparte r eincarnated. By ation of adm i rati on tor Napoleon had eclipsed hie admir s the end of Frederick the Great because the latter typifie r evolutionary a period while the former, the dominator or the (. an i nspiring example French and ~orld chaos, seemed to offer in an analogous fight against Bolshevism. any Hitler ie more interested i n Napoleon than by to admi t other figure tn European history. He is unwilling . The this openly because it would not be good propaganda out ot f act remains that Hitl er has taken mor e leaves ia Napoleon the Napoleon's book than fro~ anywher e else. It Napoleon Jacobin and friend of the younger Robespierre, ist, the the conspirator, Napoleon the soldier, the propagand intereat coi ner of phra!es, the tyrant, the Imper ator that Hitl er . •. . - 60 -

e he wae Napoleon got France to follow him becaus that ln order an example and a leader. Napoleon realized he had to stick to become the l eader or t he French nation demand that hie to a l eader-pat tern and had in turn to . He thus created follower• 1m1tate hl e thoughte and aotione people who fashioned around hlm an ever-wldenlng circle or became France themaelvee after hlm. In .thla way Napoleon obviously ta.ken note and France Napoleon. Hitl er has quite if Hi tler l a ot thle method. If Hitler is Germany, and gets to follo~ him Europe lt is because the people who he

are or have beco~e little Hltlere. Other features culled from the Napoleonic prop~­ anti-Capitalistic and ganda are Hitler's anti-Conservative, like Napoleon will al­ ( anti-Bourgeoie attitude. Thue Hitler ( . iving labor as vaya come out tor the have-nota, t or l who have their t ortunee opposed to dead capital, a nd t or those tor youth, tor the t o make . Like Napoleon Hitler comes out bold, and el ement which being on the make is aggressive, the cause eelf-reliant . Llke Napoleon Hitler Will p~ad hand Hitle r tollows ot an increased blrt h rate. On the other point or view, hie Napoleon in hie dislike t or an old age ecauee t his clase, dielike or t he r ich, cultured claes, b r eelt1sh, ill iberal, having something to lose, ie tlmid and - 61-

aceptlo , exoluaive, reserved and immovable. Furthermore, ( thia eetabliahed claea is not a growing thing, but on· the contrary il diminishing in numbers, Heinrich Reine in talklng or Napoleon uaed the phrase "Herolc Materialif:•. Both Napol eon and Hitler

are mechanical-~inded men, who subordinate all intellectual and apiritual rorcee to mean• or material euccesa. Both or them realized that to be eucceestul and powerful ae a nation it ie neceseary to raise the atandard or living or the maaaea . Both are thoroughly modern and meehftniatlc, with the one difference that Napoleon rerueed Robert Fulton'• acheme or the ate&mboat, while Hitl er in Napoleon' • place would have probably asked some Goering for advice before r so doing. \. Then there ie the newepaper-conscioueneee or both Hitler and Napoleon. llonopol1zing the attention or their contemporaries by adapting theQeelvee to the mind or the masse• around them, both a ot merely became representatives but actually monopolizers and usurpers or other minds. Both felt themselves not only entitl ed to do this . They con­ sidered th1e usurpation and plagiarism or other mind• aa their dut y and normal ru.notion, by arguing that theae r

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thoughts, which their presence and personality inspired, were aa much their own a s if they had said them. In fact they argued that this adoption of other people' s brain

constituted so to speak an act of final eternal ~doption. Their idea was that in repeating a thought of others was a process of rebirth. In fact men or Napoleon's and Hitler's stamp almost

(' cease to have either priva.te speech o,f' opinion. They :1re so largely crowd-receptive and are so placed, that they come to be the pooling reservoir for all contemporary i ntelligence information, malinformation, wit, prejudice and power. They listen and are listened to as the media or all wave-lengths of their day . Every sentence spoken by them is voicing ( - merely what every man woman and child of the nation feels (_ that they always felt uefore - but merely did not know how to express . . Hitler and Napoleon, being mediums of the innermost libido patterns of the principal sections of the nation, these great men are like avalanches. They devour everything in their path. Great men set their stamp on the times. So it happens that everything successful, memorable, witty and beautiful is credited to them and hitched onto their namee. (r I ' ' - 53 -

Bonaparte and Hitler at the height of their lives ( were the idols of common men (Babbitt type) because they have in a tranecendant degree the qualities and powers of common men. Just as commoh men aim only at power and wealth eo

Bonaparte and Hitler wrought in common with tnat gr~at class t hey represented, for power and we«lth - and did so - to the secret delight or the common men of their time, without any scruples as to the means. There i s always a certain coquetterie in hie voice when Hitler is speaking of hio foreign aime and he would end

hie lengthy exp os~ with the confession of his intention to realize his progrem without any regard to legal obligations. The sacro-egoismo of Mussol1ni taken from Napoleon's ( notebook became a part of Hitler's vade-mecum. "If a thing is good for the Party a crime is no crime. If it is good

for Germany a crime is no crime. • The common man he~ra th1e and thinks: •Ie it not delightful to know, that while we poor suckers have to live according to the statutes, our leaders be it Napoleon, Muaeol1ni or Hitler can infringe on the Law. • It has been shown above how 1n consequence of the

analogous role~ of the French Revolution of 1789 and the r Russian Revolution of 1917 the Napoleon type as conqueror of < • - 64-

revolutions has been reincarnated in Benito Muneolin~ and ( Adol! Hitler and how Napole ~nic phraeea, method e and mea­ aurea have filtered through Muaeol ini Co Hitler . It must not be f orgotten that ainoe Harshcl Minden­

burg' • death in 19~4 Hitler haa surpassed hie former maeter Muesol1ni by becoming himeel! a de facto ·Emperor , by playing

to an ene the ro~ or contiecator or liberties. Thue the year 1804 when Bonaparte made bimeelt Emperor and mi dsummer 1934 correspond to each other. Both these years brouzht the conr1acat1on or all povera or State, or all liberties o! the individual. In both or theee years there was noone t o reeist; it wae ae though all other solutions had been tried 1n vain. { However, just ae Muasolini was aurpasRed, ao wae Napoleon in h1e turn. The reason is this t hat while Napoleon only bad hie army to rely• upon, Hitler in cddit1on to that is in full control or a nation-wide Geata?o11tan aetwork

and Party bureaucracy. When Napole~n aaid 1 Moral sentiments are tor women and litt le children - and id~ologie te • he yet

wae tar rrom being a 1 00~ dictator. Hitl er ha3 gone r urther than llapoleon. He haa refused to make a conc:>rdat w1 th the Churches or rather he hae made it and rerueed to rul til l it. ( He haa declared a total moral moratorium. If Hitler ia re- ' .. ' - 66- minded that euch a course conetitutes a violation of solemnly

( given promieee and of the Party program of 1923 he anewers in almost Napoleonic phraeeology: 1 We muet not be weak and literary. We muct act with eolidity and precision which we owe to our holy national mission. I muet follow my star.• This frequent favorite allusion to his s~ar ('Mein Stern•), to my destiny ( 'Mein Cchicksal' ) and to Providence ( ' Die

Vorsehung1 ) are anything el se but purely rhetorical imitations r of the Napoleon1s jargon. They are a thing in which Hitl er believes profoundly or rather a thing in which he has accustomed himself to believe. 1 But,• Dr. Sedgwick asked h1m i n 1923: "What will

you do, Herr Hitl er, 1f something should happen which ~ould prevent you from fulfilling your duties as Fuehrer. After ( l... ·f all you could fall sick ••••• • Hitler retorted: 'If that ehould be the case ot if I should die it would only be a sign that my star has run its course and my miesion is ful­ filled. • A etriking parallel and one which became clearer and clearer with every year is Hitler's distrust and contempt f or eo-called 'born kings". Napoleon used to r efer to them ae the 'hereditary aseee,• when he epoke for example about the - Bourbon~. With Hitler who started when young wit h a solid . ' ..' - 66-

contempt tor t he Hapsburgs things have run a aimilar course. ( In the degree of hie ridng powers the Wittelebo.che, the ~1ett1nl

and the Hohenzollerne followed ~uit . "There is not one among them who could have been hie own ancestor,• Hitler s ays occ­ asionally, using almost the identical phrase or Napoleon. Today the return or the Monarchy is in G·ermany an almost dead issue - that is as long ns Hitler llves. Hie successor (Goe­ ring?) might possibly feel himself obliged to restitute the Hohenzollorne. However, whether he would follow the direct line or deccendance appears somewhat doubtful in Dr. Sedgwick' s excellent memory there • as a strong tendency as far back as 1934 to choose possibly somebody from a collateral side, a descendant or the Kaiser's only daughter, the Duchess or Braunschweig. Both Napoleon and Hitler never cease to rear legi­ timate monarchists, That is why both of them eo frequently refer to the fact they are flesh and creatures or the masses - that they are in fact identical with the broad masses or the people. Both of them rose with the rabble and will fall with

the rabble, because they are usurpers. To stay on top bot~ or them use identical l evers - interest and fear. In purauing

)his course there is a further similarity , It is well-kno~~ { that Napoleon considered himself the 'flagel lum Dei". That Hitler as early as the summer or 1923 began to talk of himself

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Preparation of Speech.- T1~e and t1aa again Dr . Sedgwick baa been aeked how Hitler makes his speeohee. Al=oet everyone he has talked to eeems to have the idea that others write his

books euch as·~ Knmpr• . This il absolutely wrong.

The fact 1~ that Hitler auffers · noone in the room when he is working over a epeech. 'In olden timea (1922 and 1923) Hit- . ler did not dictate hie speeches aa he doee today . It took him about tour to six hours to make b1s plan on large foolscap aheeta, about ten or twelve in number. On each page were only a fet! ... .,rds to be used as a cue. No t more than fifteen or twenty words ..t the moat. Hitler knew too well the danger of too copious notes for free delivery.

( While Hitler undou~tedly used to read many booke, ~e v rarely, if ever consulted them when laying out a epeech. Often Dr. Sedgwick visited him when he waa &t ~ork on a speech t o ~e­ liver him aome apeoial message. In the streets outside t he red billboards would be covered with Hitler' s giant posters ann­ ouncing the meeting. He would be round in hle room aa usual wearing a simple brown Jersey and th1ck-eoled gray felt slip­ pers. No books were on the table, no papers on the desk. Onoe in 1923 Hitler made an exoept1on to this rule.

I~ vas in the middle or July and he was to addrea• crowds or visiting German "Turners• , who had come from all over Germany

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to make a special effort, He obtained a thick volume of von ( Olause~itz and fell so i n l ove with it that he took the book along t o the Circu• Krone. It was a disastrously hot day . The circus wa s stifling, like an ovet'heated animal house in a zoo, In the mi ddle of the speech whe n Hitl er was Just engrossed in expoa1ng the i mportance or National enthus1aam and the fanat­ ica l zest of a people f or an army, he pulled out his volume of von Clausew1tz and began to read one - two - three - tour pagea. It almost aeemed ae though he had forgotten the audtence which

becam e more and more reetive. When Hit~er returned agai n t o hie own speech the entir e cont act had t o be reeatabllshed anew. Realizing this Hitler immediately started the rhapAodic move­

ment end eav~d the day by a bri llia nt ten minute finale, Since 1 tha t experience Hitle r has never taken a book with him on t he t platform. When the hour of the meeting approaches, he walks up

and ~own the room ae though .rehearsing in hi e mi nd the various phases or hie argument . Duri ng th1e time telephone calls come pouring in. It was often Christian Weber, Max Amann or Hermann Esser, who would tell Hitler how t hinga were going i n t he hall. Hitl er's typical questton on the telephone would be: •Are there

many people coming? Wha t is the general mood? ( •~ie 1st die Stimmung?• ). Will there be ar.y opposition?• ' ... - ~9 - concerning tbe handling Th~n Hitler would g1Ye dlrPctlons ng t or him . Then he would of the =ee t ~n~ whi le they were waiti , sometimea liatening hang up t he t=l ep. one and r esume his w~lk i n the room. Then 'i n en ebaent-=inded way to some conver sation to repeat a ai mi lar conver­ ~he telep h on~ would ring again only the openine or t he aat1on to th~ above. Half an hour after' overcoat, whip and hat and meeting Hit l~ ~ would ask t or hie and chauffeur . go out t o hls oar preceded by hie bodyguard e s , hi a Entrr. noe.- Even if Hi tler weara c1vil1an cloth nothi ng of the over- appearance r &s a mi l i tary bearing, He has takea no notice or familiar style or certain demagogu es. He the cro~u to t he anyone on : !'!' way in as he strides t hrough S. A. f ormations with podiUJ:I, He l:eepe hia eyea on the s.s. and 1932 are when some t he flags. The sole exceptione to thi R since hi m a bouquet or flowers. He child is ~ h o v ~ d i n his way to hand hand and pat the child on the vill take t h ~ flower s wi th the l eft a few seconds . Then he cheeks. The ~:h ol e thing takes him only ueckner and passes on. passes the bc~qu et to Schaub or Br on t he way in or on In t · ~~u pt1on e.- Any i nterrupti on ther and child is apt to the way out ~·:.tll h does not involve mo Commander , who arouse Hitl er'" ire. Woe to t he unlucky s.s. e. Dr. Sedgwick re=embera t hat ia reaponstb: ~ f or such a leakcg his way ou~ ot a stadium i n 1932 nenr ~oenigs berg Hi tler was on

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and a middle-aged hysterical woman auddenly blocked hiR way , knelt down before h1m and tried to thrust i nto h1a h and a scroll of revelations she claimed to have received fro2 the other world. Hitl er shouted at Brueckner i n a turtous way: •aet th1a cra~y woman out cf the way• . Hitler wae tn a bad temper the whole of that evening. Speech.- Quite often somebody mnkee a speech t o fill 1n the t1me unt11 Hitler arrives. Hitler does not c o.re who y talk talka before ~1m but he absolutely refuses to have anybod h before after hL~ . There is always inspiring martial music bot and after hie speeches. 'tlhen Hitler stepped forward he used to plnce ht s sheets or notee on a table at h1e left and after he looked at the:n he ( would lay them over on a table on h1s right. Each page used to take him from ten to fifteen minute a. \1hen he had tlniahed he slowly placed it on the other table, took a new l eaf and started on. His usual t1me tor a epeech was from two to two end a half hours, even three hours wae not unusual. That wee b e f o~e his throat trouble started and he used even to drink beer from a mug !roo time to tioe, which in Munich was always the s 1~nal t or s ome special applause. looture.- Dr. Sedgwick who has eat behind Hitler upon innumerable occasions watching h1m closely and oni y a few f eet away from him, observed that he etarts in a positlon o: mi litary

f ,'.. ' ' - 61- - twenty - attention. Thin posture is maintained some fifteen time t he ( twenty-rive minut -s as the caee may be . All t his ia not a heela or his boots r emain f irmly together, There absolute eecond or rel r.xation. The whole figure i s one or hands are tirmneea, includi ng shoulder& and head. Hit ler' a d while he claeped behind his back and thP arma are ' atretche peat a.nd d.rawa a caustic c.nd chaat1sing exposition or the 1919 11.nd present. It is the etyle he probably acquired in ed i nstructor f ollowi ng years, tlh en eerving as a non-coom i saion at t he Munich b~rracko. audience It i s a period or discipline t or himself and t he g concert and corresponds 1n many ways to the tradition amon s !rom Bach. piani s t s t o open their programs with a rew selection rst time After t wenty minutes out comee the r oot t or the fi ( t hings begin and gestures follow with t he hands. From then on Hitl er's epeechee to liven up. Co~pared to a piece or mus i c quicker coneist two thit•ds or march time growing i ncreasingly i s matter or tact with and l o~d ing into the last third which he eurrera increasingly irontc s i delights. As is we ll-known no interrupt1ona nor heckl ing. r Inowing tha t a continuous pres entati on by one speake way an i maginary would be bor1ne; l:e impersonate:~ in 1< masterful ent and Hitl er of t en i nterrupting hi ms elf with a counter-argum er he hae t hen returns t o his original l i ne or thought, aft ent. This furnishes emot hered co~p l etely this imaginary oppon •

( .. - 62 - by the audience with a l ittle special drama, often interrupted Tolleys or spontaneouo applause , yet Hitler does not strictly g only speaking seek t or applause. He seems often t o be wantin any r to convert the people to hi s i deas and is resentful or ea on premature n oise which interrupts him. It the applause go some­ too long i n his opi ni on he will check it ·and cut i t abort, hand. time• even at ita inception, by a motion With a trembling All enthusiasm muat be saved up t or the t hird part or hie speech, which he sweeps t rom exhortation, pr omiee, dedica" . Staccato tion i nto the rhc,~odf finale . The tempo l ivens rgee towards outbursts becom e more frequent and the speech oonv~ its apotheosis. Hitler has alr eady been sho~on all a Na.roissus woman type who regard!! the crowd ae a substitute medium t or the t or him he cannot tind. Once this ill understood , that speaking { pheno­ represents the satisfaction or some depl etion urge, t he Hi tler llenon or Hitler a a nn oro.tor becomes intelligible. .With e it ie a double process or depletion and parturition. Hi e and argument• are the depletion el ement, the applauee, homag the ovation ot the audience ·are the chil d t hat is bor n. In orga 11m last eight to ten minutes Hitl er' s oratory resembles an i llmentll ot a ot worde. It ie al~oat l ike the throbbing tult love dr ama • •... • . •Liebeetod. OratorY.- It baa otten been 11aid by people who re&d

1 that Hitl er' • speechee: Why t hat is old stutt, we ho.ve heard ould before,• it theee sam e oritioe hear h~ in person they w

( ./ ..' - 83- all eeem1 ae lay: "It is r emarkable that when one hears Hitler t1we. And yet one though it were new and 1aid tor the first ehow it eeema ne~ and know• that one haa heard it betnre, but som hal a new meaning.• between H1t~r'e There ia undoubtedly soceth1ng in common 1 at1onl or known leit~ot i vs epeech and Wagner e music. Infinite vari .r appeal. repeated over and over producing a new ea hal hither­ Hitler hal a qual ity wh1 ch no German orator s of Nationalilm and to poaoesaed. He uaea the two half t ruth w1ll use melor.y and Socialism limultaneoualy Juot ae a composer picture. Thia gift bale to produce the complete contrapuntal . He ie abl e ei~ il given t o none or hie rivals nor opponents ical sphere and to multaneously to appeal to t he 1deal and myst the concrete ani mal sphere . like Tbe truth is that the greatness or an orator be Judged by what that or a poet must i n the final analysis . Thla gives M he doee not aay and yet ~o es not leave unla1d t he inexpressi ble , chance for the audience to r eel the unexpressed, to Mat1lda Wes endonk t hemselves. Thla ia what Wagner in a letter 1 lence•. h~l called the art of sounding si affecta­ Frau kagda Goebbela in a mixture or truth, ou were wonderful tion and fl&ttery once said to Hitler: "Y ed of 11\yselt. I again yesterd:cy. It malte1 me feel ao ash8111 and yet when I always thtnk tha t I am a National- Socialist

( · ~ ./. .I - 64 - hear you I reel that I haven' t been a National-Soci aliat all thia time - t hat I am Juat b eginning to be one. It all aeema my eo new t o me, ae t hough it ~ere my rtret convera1on r rom former lite,• Th1a conversation took place at the lunc~eo n t able i n the Re 1chakanzlei 1n 1934, At the t ime Dr; Sedgwick took it aa a place or ahamel eea and nauseating f lattery, which waa awallowed avidly by Hitler. Si nce then Dr , Sedgwick t eel a that it contains a grain or truth, it analyzed in the ep1rit ot t he let t er or Wegner' • quoted above, Speaking or Bitler' s t echni que or argui ng publicly with himsel f he once ea1d to Dr , Sedgwick the f ollowi ng: •we muet never forget that worde nnd t heir meaning are two eubtly dietinct thi ngs. The word r emains the aame but the meaning ( cha.ngea, It, tor i nstance, you r epeat a word a nW!lber or timea the hucan mind r efuse s to reproduce t he aame thought p1oture, • The human mi nd indeed 1ns\sts on varying t hat thought­ picture aometimee even to a degree or the abaolute oppoeite . tha t familiar ~uit e ~aide f rom this taot we can ~otic e every day oeaeed t o convey worda wh1~h are uaed in argument have atmoat a plastic i dea. There 1a a special t ype or educated Germa.n That l i ngo which is alm~st entirely made up or a uch wordc, eutsch) \_ type or out-or-date proreeaorial German (Pror easoren-D 11 t he cauae or t he decay or bourgeois part1ee l ike the Bugenberg Party. I ' .. 65-

or.­ 1 The crowd ie not only like a woman, but woroen c The wo· en etitute the moat important elt!Dent in an audience. , wh en I ueually lead, then follow the children - and at last tnther s . 11 already have won over the whole f am1ly - toll ow the ce A epeater may never take tor granted th11t the aurilen must dra~r n understands what he says. Like an archi teet 'loo·ho who wonts to be groundpla.n as well as a.n elevation, oo a speaker must supplement h1s s: at e­ really understoo~ by the broad !Dasses er arbu~ ent lDent that a thing i s so and so (thesis) with a furth so a nd so which shews in which way the thing described ie not (anti thes1s) . ­ Tbio second i nverted and negative presentation f ur argument nishes t he neeeaaery comple!Dentary colora to the stands c~ t picture No. 1. The result is tha t the whole thing it h~s in dramatic relief. The ~aesee grasp the idea and become their own (synthesis). Needlesa to say part No. 2 is the !Dost difficult w~ the speech aection or a speech. If it is done in a dry theref ore beco!Des a ser!Don end will bore the people. It ia cal a1d el 1o·ht e, advisable to treat this .part in the form of lronl effect on th ~ naively put in, almost 1n dialogue raehlon. The and t he lliiCUence is to make them understand without effort speaker c&n proceed with confidence to the next aubject. • .. ., ./ - 66 - • en,• 1 S0111e people say t hat I repeat my~el f ao oft

1 a thing too often, sa l d Hitler. I tell you one cannot r epent speaker and under­ That preouppoaes that a speaker is renlly e. malr. point. In that s t ~nds the art or endlessl y varying t he f orget that even r e apect Wagner is my a:odel. Beei

(. oe when the moment exactly by feeling the reaction of the audl~n h ich sets the crowd hns come to throw the l a st fla.~~~ing Jsveli:J ~· d e ~ buzzing in their afire and sends it home with a leading ! ence has become bchdl. One can see eAactly how f ar the audi and el sewhere move back f a3cinated if the hea~e in the gallery has a~ yet no g~ip and forth. This ill a s1gn that the speaker ~a t 1s one of the on his audience, One s ees that a lot an~ ~ 1 reasons I cannot listen to other peopl e aperu~ . " speaking 1s 1 . The only man Hitler can bear to l is~e n to Goebbele. !-- .. r , • - 6? - •, .I .... • AY 91c!ance of a.. :-£0 of Pereones:rea.- While ape&l\tnc Hitl er o&refully avoida a;ent l oni ng the namee of peraone.gea either dead or alive. For inatance instead or Baying "Bi :c:arck once said ••• • Hltlet· l> lll s n:y 1 The Iron Chancellor ..... • I nstead or eaying: "Thie 1s a debt we owe to General Lude ~c!orrr,• Hitler will eay: "To Ge r m~>.n y 1 e Great Quartermaeter or t he 'llorld War we owe ••• • Schiller and Goethe are never r eferred t o by name

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to t~1e rule ia Richard Wagner. Exit Technique.- lihen Hitler's speech haa reachec\ its orgiastic end, the final s t £ge whi ch might be termed the rpo­

t heoe1s of the meeting t a~ c s place. The band playa t~e n~> t1onal anthem (Deutschland ueber Alles) (Nat1onal1em) followed by t he Horst Weasel song (Nat1onal··9oc1al18m) . Without waiting Hltl er aalutea to the right and left and l eaves during the playing , He usually ranches hla oar before the alnglng la over. ~~ e ther oonsclouoly or unconsciouslt y done hla sudden withdr awal hc s a

numb e ~ or advant&gee. In addi t ion to t&cilitating hie exit unmolested t o hie car, it prevents the exsltatl on of the crowd from going to waste. It eaves him f rom unwelcome interv1ella

and leaves intact the apoth e ~ 3 1 1 pi cture that the publi c has received from t he end or h i s speech. Hitler once aaid t o Dr.

Sedgwick: "It ia a great ~ ! s t ak e many speakers make to hAng around after t heir epeech 1s o•1er . It only lead• to an :..nt.l-

oll max end aometimea it e> l ~rht even happen t ha t arguments nl"lse

vhi ch cou\~ comple t ely undo :he hours of oratorial labor. • (_ r. ( ., .· - 60 - Then turning to a comparison w ~ t h the thee tre he sai d! "I never liked i t. when actors after fir.i3hing t heir roles took

curtain Cl'lls. It murders t he illusion ··: n ~n a Htu:~ let or a Trle­ tan who has j\l3t died ::u:.r;n1f1cently en t h ! stage reappear

to smi l e and bow to t he applauae of the ~ ud ie nce . Of course the profess ional actors will tell you tha t they live by this

applause and the number o! encores d et er~ in e their standing i n

their prof~seion. Richard 1·/agner was dee..! right ;.o~en he pro­

hibited all encore curtain calls tor the : es t sp le lhe~ s perfor~­ ances i n aayreuth. It i s and rema i ns a pz·ofe.nation. "

Hitler' s theory was t hat one mu s t always h~ve the courage to leave any gatheri ng as soon as one feels that t he

climax i s reached ; never, never wait to s ee what i ~press ion has been mAde .,..h i ch is a sign of inner cowardi ce and lack of confidence. Hi tler• s habit of l ea•1 ing the hall abruptly during

t he first mom ents of th~ ovation has helped to shroud him

with an almost my stical quality or unearthl iness. The ~an

1 without a ho~c , the Flying Dut crunan, Lohe ngr in s exit in

shi~ing armor, the untouchabi l 1t. y of Pelleas , which transtorm3 the v arious women t ypes in the audience l nto so many longing Elsas, Sentas and Hel isandes . JR~~:>~~~;I , Dr. n.a. - t41\Gr, 'I'M oa...111 ,._. l.eeder, ll1cbllon4, VU.&lftl a o.o. 28, 11:111

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The Prea1dant referred "to :read and return", a latter troll ttbe Sec. ot State, ~ . 7, enolos1 ~ c&JDO prea;red by an ott1cer or tbo European D1v. ro tren.elated broadoaet ot Cbe.lloellor R1tler'• spoa oh t o meld:lera Cit the Roich.stag on Jan. liO IIDd daal1118 With tho prl ntid CU.J1lllation g1nn out in 0ol"llDIU'• .. copy ot t ba printed tranalation 1s alao enclosed. Alao attaohad 1a a lotter tron "CEH" (Charla• B. l.larriam?) to the soc. ot the Interior, Jan, 31st.

SBE - liS ( Oft1c1al Fila) ,. L'.

/ / STATE, The Secretary ot J'ab. ? , 1939.

The J>r.aidct, b7 •110., tr-iUed t or hia 1ntor•Uoa a l eUer e4dre.. ed to tbe Secretary of the I nterior, troa CIK (Cbarles B. Merriaa ?), The Uni•erai\7 ot Chicago. The Presideat aaked the S.cratary ot State to ..t an origiDal nraioa 1D German ot Hitler'• latest broadcast aDd ban it cor.rectl7 treaalatK. The J>r.sldeat aaid that tbla lahar troll llr. Merriam was one ot anaral coiiJ)lainte he bed bad that Hitler'• broadcast waa miatrsnslated.

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~ guess is tbat in to the Presi dent enolosina a cartoon with tbe reaark: Writes oaaa ot 1)0, 000, 000 problaa just put up to :rou, thie cartoon s tates t .._ the tough the President wrote t o va . J'ohn L. Lewis, tor your loynl aupport•.--on 5/5/43 AmerioBI1.8 a grand. I had not aee.a it bat ore. Mr. Greene ro above, as tollowa: "Tbat cartoon i I:IIQ' haft bean on Sunday aorning." I daD't think Bitler oan be aa oooky today aa he

See P . P . J'. 584 vah,

DAVIS , 1'1 . Louis, President-Director, , Inc ., Ameri can Negro ~s i c Festival Ch.icago, Ill February 1, 1944 their Fift h Annual i ng a message tram him tor to tho President request in 1uly, 1944.--0n 2/5/44 Writes St. Louis, and Detroit, to be bold 1D Chicago, . Elmer Davis tor preparation Festival ove letter by memo t o Ron ed Hassett referred the ab . --ln accordance with request Wr. such action is approved President ot appropriate reply, it , (}ill, on 2/ll/44, the by L!r. George A. Bernas prognlll pro dratt of reply, sub:~~itted referred t o last year's . Dovis . The President or Amer i­ on 2/14/44 wrote to lolr was beard by thousands 1uly, recalling that it that the place santed also in Chica~o in torces abroad. He said short-waved to our fighting ortort in all Cilll citizens end contribut ion to our wnr national culture end its and the wor ld; s!l id or mus ic in our known to the American people national l!l!lergency is well tho American Negro which times or ore the generous gift s or l t ­ that equally recognized thet our enemies inadverte turtber, . He pointed out Hitler enriched our musical tradition mus ical contribution when have tribut es to t he Negro's p!ous paid on.e ot the highest liberty, curtail ing reli ly further: ~hila abolisbiQR the conquered Carmany; said and scientists into exile, •orld- tOI!Ied intellectuals carman theaters vrorshi p , and torcinp playin.o; or Negro musi c in Party also banned the or the Fifth Annual National Socialist ded t he t t he present ation halls. The President ad do more than create and concert three cities this year should Negro MU&io Festival in "it should ·also accentuate American our own racial groups - understanding between ple and t hose who would o batter between the American peo irreconcilable dit teronces the . " destroy culture everywhere

See P.P.F, 6760

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• ue - PPF !:f.44