In this thread I will narrate the life of Adolf Hitler from his leaving the army in 1918 until his appointment as Chancellor of Germany in 1933.
I intend to cover:
>his life in post-war Munich
>the culture of Weimar Germany
>his entry into politics
>the growth of the NSDAP party
>the struggle to win power in Germany
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On the conclusion of Adolf's military career
>"In mid-October 1918 a hospital train, the sides of its carriages defaced by revolutionary slogans, slowly wended its way through Germany toward the secure eastern marches of the empire. Among the hundreds of casualties on the train were blinded victims of a recent poison gas attack in Belgium. [...] Those who escaped with their lives were painfully blinded, all but one who still could see faintly. He suggested to the others that they hang on to each other's coattails as he attempted to lead them to safety. [...] Among the men thus rescued from a choking death was a twenty-nine-year-old Gefreiter (corporal) named Adolf Hitler."
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On the battle-wounded Adolf learning of the 'November Revolution '
>"I came to the hospital at Pasewalk in Pomerania, and there I was fated to experience — the greatest villainy of the century. [...] Unfavorable rumors were constantly coming from the navy, which was said to be in a state of ferment. But this too, seemed to me more the product of the imagination of individual scoundrels than an affair involving real masses [...] And then one day, suddenly and unexpectedly, the calamity descended. Sailors arrived in trucks and proclaimed the revolution; a few Jewish youths were the ‘leaders’ in this struggle for the ‘freedom, beauty, and dignity’ of our national existence. None of them had been at the front. [...] Now they raised the red rag in the homeland."
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>based story time user is back
You are the basedest poster on this board, keep it up.
Also bump.
Keep going! This is good!
On Adolf learning of the Revolution's victory and Germany's surrender
>"On November 10, the pastor came to the hospital for a short address: now we learned everything. [...] The dignified old gentleman seemed all a-tremble as he informed us [...] that the fatherland had become a ‘republic;’ [...] in the little hall the deepest dejection settled on all hearts, and I believe that not an eye was able to restrain its tears. [...] But when the old gentleman tried to go on [...] I could stand it no longer. It became impossible for me to sit still one minute more. Again everything went black before my eyes; I tottered and groped my way back to the dormitory, threw myself on my bunk, and dug my burning head into my blanket and pillow."
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On Adolf's reaction to Germany's defeat
>"Since the day when I had stood at my mother’s grave, I had not wept. When in my youth Fate seized me with merciless hardness, my defiance mounted. When in the long war years Death snatched so many a dear comrade and friend from our ranks, it would have seemed to me almost a sin to complain — after all, were they not dying for Germany? And when at length the creeping gas — in the last days of the dreadful struggle — attacked me, too, and began to gnaw at my eyes, and beneath the fear of going blind forever, I nearly lost heart for a moment, the voice of my conscience thundered at me: Miserable wretch, are you going to cry when thousands are a hundred times worse off than you! And so I bore my lot in dull silence. But now I could not help it. Only now did I see how all personal suffering vanishes in comparison with the misfortune of the fatherland. And so it had all been in vain. In vain all the sacrifices and privations; in vain the hunger and thirst of months which were often endless; in vain the hours in which, with mortal fear clutching at our hearts, we nevertheless did our duty; and in vain the death of two millions who died."
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On Adolf's decision to enter politics
>"In the days that followed, my own fate became known to me. [...] At last it became clear to me that what had happened was what I had so often feared but had never been able to believe with my emotions.Kaiser William II was the first German Emperor to hold out a conciliatory hand to the leaders of Marxism, without suspecting that scoundrels have no honor. While they still held the imperial hand in theirs, their other hand was reaching for the dagger. There is no making pacts with Jews; there can only be the hard: either — or. I, for my part, decided to go into politics."
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On Adolf leaving hospital and re-entering a defeated German society
>"When he left Pasewalk on 19 November 1918 to return, via Berlin, to Munich, he had savings totalling only 15 Marks 30 Pfennige in his Munich account. No career awaited him [...] Neither family nor ‘connections’ were available to gain him some minor patronage in a political party [...] The future looked bleak. A return to the lonely existence of the pre-war small-time painter had no appeal.But little else beckoned.The army gave him his chance. He was able to stave off demobilization longer than almost all his former comrades, and to keep on the payroll, until 31 March 1920."
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Keep up the good work user, love your threads
do you want to go to prison user?
Belongs on /his/ but entertaining nonetheless
Bump
Go to prison for giving us historical information?
Shut up you Catalonian cuck.
On Adolf returning to Munich
>"On 21 November 1918, two days after leaving hospital in Pasewalk, Hitler was back in Munich. Approaching thirty years of age, without education, career, or prospects, his only plans were to stay in the army [...] He came back to a Munich he scarcely recognized [...] The revolutionaryBavarian government, in the shape of a provisional National Council, was in the hands of the Social Democrats and the more radical Independent Social Democrats (the USPD).The Minister President,Kurt Eisner, was a radical; and he was a Jew"
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On Adolf's description of post-war Munich
>"1919 in Munich was a sad time. Little light, lots of dirt, unrest, poorly dressed people, impoverished soldiers, in short, the picture resulting from four years of war and the scandal of the revolution."
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On Adolf's living standards in Munich
>"He sublet a small back room at Thierschstrasse 41, a middle-class district near the Isar River dominated by three and four story buildings [...] Hitler's was a tiny cell, eight by fifteen feet [...] It was the coldest room in the house and, according to the landlord, Herr Erlanger, "Some lodgers who've rented it since got ill. Now we only use it as a storeroom; nobody will have it any more."
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On Adolf's landlord's memory of her tenant
>"Frau Reichert who sublet to Hitler, found her tenant extraordinarily moody: "Sometimes weeks go by when he seems to be sulking and does not say a word to us. He looks through us as if we were not there." Though he paid his rent punctually and in advance; he was "a real Bohemian type." [...] He lived in spartan simplicity, his almost constant companion a large dog named Wolf."
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Heil, bruder! Respekt.
to the noose with this one. Save the good gewher bullets for those bolshevik jews.
On the birth of Weimar Germany
>"A dizzying panic overtook Berlin in October 1919. Not since Paris in the 1860s had a European city experienced the Edenic flush of total erotic freedom. With prostitution and all-night dancing already accepted features of contemporary Berlin life, what else could be added? Drugs and over-the-counter pornography appeared first. [...] sweet qualities of Gallic porno were supplanted in Berlin studios by the psychopathic scenarios from Krafft-Ebing. Forced, intergenerational, scatalogical, and obessive fetish sex prevailed.
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On Jewish magazine publisher Hugo Bettauer's praise for the Weimar "sexual revolution"
>"It is the erotic revolution! [...] The fundamental principle, that the erotic belongs to marriage, was created by men and takes no consideration of the woman. [...] Things are not better now for the woman but worse than they were a hundred years ago. Back then in seclusion she learned contentment and discharged her eroticism as a childbearer. Today she is sexually stimulated, can move around freely for hours in an alcohol and a nicotine haze, but only as far as a clearly drawn limit, a limit drawn by the man for purely egotistical reasons. [...] This magazine, which has arisen under the sign of the erotic revolution, wants to join the struggle and to speak openly about things that the blinkered philistines continue to pass over."
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On Jewish poet Ivan Goll's praise of African culture's replacing German cultural traditions
>"In a 1926 review of the black jazz troupe Revue Nègre the poet Yvan Goll declared that a ‘transfusion’ of negro blood was ‘conquering’ – and reviving – Europe [...] "The Negroes are conquering Paris. They are conquering Berlin. They have already filled the whole continent with their howls, with their laughter. And we are not shocked [...] on the contrary, the old world calls on its failing strength to applaud them."
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Hitler was a megalomaniac meth junkie that was deemed to lose. THE END
>the growth of the NSDAP party
On Jewish feminist Elsa Herrmann's description of the "new" Weimar woman
>"The woman of yesterday was intent on the future [...] In stark contrast, the woman of today is oriented exclusively toward the present. That which is is decisive for her, not that which should be or should have been according to tradition. She refuses to be regarded as a physically weak being in need of assistance [...] and therefore no longer lives by means supplied to her from elsewhere, whether income from her parents or her husband. For the sake of her economic independence, the necessary precondition for the development of a self-reliant personality, she seeks to support herself through gainful employment. It is only too obvious that, in contrast to earlier times, this conception of life necessarily involves a fundamental change in the orientation of women toward men."
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On the birth of new cultural forms in Weimar Germany
>"The waltz is dead—and all attempts to resuscitate it are failing and destined to fail. [...] Instead of dancing dances in a strolling gait with the spirit of a bygone era, the younger generation takes its inspiration from the original motions of primitive peoples, from an unaffected return to the rhythmic, musical experiences of naïve souls. If such borrowed steps, perhaps movement fragments of savage peoples, end up melted together with the remnants of Western culture [...] This dance gets its own recruits, makes its own way, discharges itself (with occasional farcical misunderstandings) amid the thunder of a jazz band like a storm! It cleanses tradition of the dust of decades, inflames blasé dance fanatics anew, shows all those excited by dance the rhythm of their life, their feelings and thoughts. It answers to the name Charleston."
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On art in Weimar Germany
>"Nudity had becoming boring and art itself was plumbing the nadir of obscenity, disillusionment and cynicism."
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Where are you getting all this, OP? One book or multiple sources? If the former it sounds like a good read.
On sex and sexuality in Weimar Berlin
>"The Tiergarten, Berlin's dimly-lighted park preserve at the city core, attracted young freelance Line-Boys and Grasshoppers (female specialists in BJs), who congregated in groups near the park's edge after dark. South of the Tiergarten peered fashionable Berlin West [...] At this nexus of expensive nightclubs, pleasure palaces, lesbian cafes, transvestite-cabarets, and American-style bars, high-end call girls [...] positioned themselves [...] Fancy whorehouses and sham fronts for underage sex were tucked away in the quiet neighbourhoods abetting the Potsdamer Platz. [...] One could also find a surfeit of cocaine and S&M clubs just to the south of Walter Gropius' temple of Red art."
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On prostitution in Weimar Germany
>"At first, young war brides, branded "straw widows," offered their carnal services to the available males of Berlin, then it was the provincial youth of both sexes, and finally the children of bourgeois families. Prostitution lost its exact meaning when tens of thousands were involved in complex sex attachments, all of a commercial nature."
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On pornographic cinemas in Weimar Berlin
>"Each of the eight major revue-theatres had its own distinct appeal and style of presentation. One was noted for its exquisite dance numbers and kaleidoscopic scenery; one hired better composers and Schnauzer lyricists; another veered to the experimental or hot topical issues; still another was famed for using only glamorous Girl-Groups from aboard. But no revue-producer was more detested by his colleagues or more beloved by the voyeuristic public than James Klein, who excelled in mounting season after season of hit shows blanketed with excessive amounts of gratuitous female nudity.[...] (incidentally all the revue directors were Jewish)"
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OP here. Many sources. I can post at the end if necessary.
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On underage homosexual prostitution in Weimar Germany
>"Wild-Boys [...] lived in the outlying districts of Berlin. [...] These 14 - 18 year old runaways [...] led by punkish-dressed chieftains called "Bulls"[...] would be forced to box (or knife fight) with the toughest member of the crew, be gang-raped while bound and gagged, ordered to masturbate publicly and then ejaculate on command, or act as a living commode for [...] drunken associates. [...] [In] the Linden-passage, a dilapidated arcade lane [...] two or three hundred Doll-Boys (underage boy prostitutes) posed before hesitant Sugar-Lickers (gay pederasts)."
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On the "enemy within"
>"a proliferation of VD, prostitution and pornography and an 'exaggerated' quest for amusement. Government reports of under-age and clandestine prostitution and official estimates of the spread of VD amongst the civilian population did indeed paint a bleak picture of a nation defeated in war now facing defeat from an 'enemy' within. [...] Tanzwut, the post-war craze for dancing in nightclubs and cabarets, the 'wave of eroticism' and the penchant for unconventional sexual titillation [...] outraged a public afflicted by serious food shortages, unemployment and inflation."
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On one researcher's summary of Weimar culture
>"in Weimar Germany. [...] The vices of the past were now its virtues. The only vice that remained was chastity."
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Were the degenerates kicked out of Germany in 1933? Or did they convert to national socialism?
On Adolf the anti-revolutionary
>"In 1919, [Captain Karl] Mayr’s influence in the Munich Reichswehr extended beyond his rank as captain, and he was endowed with considerable funds to build up a team of agents or informants, organize the series of ‘educational’ courses to train selected officers and men in ‘correct’ political and ideological thinking, and finance ‘patriotic’ parties, publications, and organizations. Mayr first met Hitler in May 1919, after the crushing of the ‘Red Army’ [...] When he first met Hitler, Mayr wrote much later, ‘he was like a tired stray dog looking for a master’, and ‘ready to throw in his lot with anyone who would show him kindness'"
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On Adolf's anti-bolshevik training
>"Within days he had been assigned to the first of the anti-Bolshevik ‘instruction courses’, to take place in Munich University between 5 and 12 June 1919. For the first time, Hitler was to receive here some form of directed political ‘education’.This, as he acknowledged, was important to him; as was the fact that he realized for the first time that he could make an impact on those around him. Here he heard lectures from prominent figures in Munich, hand-picked by Mayr, partly through personal acquaintance, on ‘German History since the Reformation’, ‘The Political History of the War’, ‘Socialism in Theory and Practice’, ‘Our Economic Situation and the Peace Conditions’, and ‘The Connection between Domestic and Foreign Policy’."
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I'd love some of these sources to study from in the future! You are doing wonderful with these posts by the way!
On Adolf attending a lecture by economist Gottfried Feder
>"Gottfried Feder [...] had made a name for himself among the Pan-Germans as an economics expert. His lecture on the ‘breaking of interest slavery’ (a slogan Hitler recognized as having propaganda potential), on which he had already published a ‘manifesto’ [...] distinguishing between ‘productive’ capital and ‘rapacious’ capital (which he associated with the Jews), made a deep impression on Hitler, and eventually led to Feder’s role as the economics ‘guru’ of the early Nazi Party."
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On Adolf being identified as a talented speaker
>"history lectures were delivered by the Munich historian Professor Karl Alexander von Müller [...]. Following his first lecture, he came across a small group in the emptying lecture hall surrounding a man addressing them in a passionate, strikingly guttural, tone. He mentioned to Mayr after his next lecture that one of his trainees had natural rhetorical talent. Von Müller pointed out where he was sitting. Mayr recognized him immediately: it was ‘Hitler from the List Regiment’. Hitler himself thought this incident – he said he had been roused to intervene by one of the participants defending the Jews – had led directly to his deployment as an ‘educational officer’ (Bildungsoffizier)."
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>I can post at the end if necessary.
That would be much appreciated. Terrific stuff, thanks for providing it. It's shameful how little known the situation in the WR is today.
On Adolf being chosen to produce patriotic propaganda
>"The task [...] was to inculcate nationalist and anti-Bolshevik sentiments in the troops, described as ‘infected’ by Bolshevism [...] Alongside the commander of the unit, Rudolf Beyschlag, Hitler undertook the lion’s share of the work, including helping to stir discussion of Beyschlag’s lectures on, for example, ‘Who Bears the Guilt for the World War?’ [...] He himself gave lectures on ‘Peace Conditions and Reconstruction’, ‘Emigration’, and ‘Social and Economic Catchwords’. He threw himself with passion into the work. His engagement was total. And he immediately found he could strike a chord with his audience, that the way he spoke roused the soldiers listening to him from their passivity and cynicism. Hitler was in his element. For the first time in his life, he had found something at which he was an unqualified success. Almost by chance, he had stumbled across his greatest talent. As he himself put it, he could ‘speak’."
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On Adolf rallying fellow military veterans
>"Participants’ reports on the course confirm that Hitler was not exaggerating the impact he made in Lechfeld: he was without question the star performer. A central feature of his demagogic armoury was antisemitism. In his ferocious attacks on the Jews, he was, however, doing no more than reflect sentiments which were widespread at the time among the people of Munich, as reports on the popular mood demonstrated. [...] The commander of the Lechfeld camp, Oberleutnant Bendt, [...] felt obliged to request Hitler to tone down his antisemitism, in order to prevent possible objections to the lectures as provoking antisemitic agitation."
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SAVE
On Adolf's first recorded statement about the Jews
>"Hitler’s well-known reply to [fellow soldier Adolf] Gemlich, dated 16 September 1919, is his first recorded written statement about the ‘Jewish Question’. He wrote that antisemitism should be based not on emotion, but on ‘facts’, the first of which was that Jewry was a race, not a religion. Emotive antisemitism would produce pogroms, he continued; antisemitism based on ‘reason’ must, on the other hand, lead to the systematic removal of the rights of Jews. ‘Its final aim,’ he concluded, ‘must unshakeably be the removal of the Jews altogether.’"
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On Adolf's time as a military informant
>"Among the duties of the informants assigned to Mayr was the surveillance of fifty political parties and organizations ranging from the extreme Right to the far Left in Munich. It was as an informant that Hitler was sent, on Friday, 12 September 1919, to report on a meeting of the German Workers’ Party in Munich’s Sterneckerbräu. [...] He was about to leave when, in the discussion following the lecture, an invited guest, a Professor Baumann, attacked [the speaker Gottfried] Feder and then spoke in favour of Bavarian separatism. At this Hitler intervened so heatedly that Baumann, totally deflated, took his hat and left [...] looking ‘like a wet poodle’. The party chairman, Anton Drexler, was so impressed by Hitler’s intervention that at the end of the meeting he pushed a copy of his own pamphlet, My Political Awakening, into his hand, inviting him to return in a few days if he were interested in joining the new movement."
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A-A-A-AH stayin' alive, stayin' alive
On Adolf joining the party he had been paid to spy on
>"curiosity overcame him and he went along to a dimly-lit meeting of the small leadership group in the Altes Rosenbad, a shabby pub in Herrenstraße. He sympathized with the political aims of those he met.But he was appalled [...] at the small-minded organization he encountered – ‘club life of the worst manner and sort’, he dubbed it. After a few days of indecision [...] he finally made up his mind to join. What determined him was the feeling that such a small organization offered ‘the individual an opportunity for real personal activity’ – the prospect, that is, of quickly making his mark and dominating it."
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On the early days of the German Workers' Party
>"Hitler walked through a dim, deserted dining room to the back where four people sat around a table. He recognized the [...] author of the pamphlet, who enthusiastically welcomed him as a new member of the Deutsche Arbeitpartie. ("Now we have an Austrian with a big mouth!" [Drexler] had told a fellow Committeeman) [...] It was worse than Hitler imagined."
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Love your threads always OP, keep up the good work.
Do one on Oswald Mosley please!
This is gay
On Adolf's first-hand research into the failed Free Corps' Berlin putsch
>"they were sent off in an open sports plane. It was Hitler's first flight and [...] the weather was so turbulent that despite Greim's skill Hitler kept vomiting. [...] For a time it appeared as if the mission was aborted [...] but Hitler snapped on a fake goatee and Eckart posed as a paper dealer, and the party was permitted to proceed to Berlin. [...] Eckart, unhappy at finding a Jew [Trebitsch-Lincoln] in charge, reputedly seized Hitler's arm and said, "Come on Adolf, we have no further business here."
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On Adolf's impression of Berlin
>"the luxury, the perversion, the iniquity, the wanton display and the Jewish materialism disgusted me so thoroughly that I was almost beside myself. I nearly imagined myself to be Jesus Christ when he came to his Father's Temple and found the money changers."
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On Adolf's Volkisch competition
>"When Hitler joined the German Workers’ Party, it was one of some seventy-three völkisch groups in Germany, most of them founded since the end of the war. In Munich alone there were at least fifteen in 1920. Within the völkisch pool of ideas, the notion of a specifically German or national socialism, tied in with an onslaught on ‘Jewish’ capitalism, had gained ground in the last phase of the war, and spawned both Drexler’s German Workers’ Party and what was soon to become its arch-rival, the German-Socialist Party (Deutschsozialistische Partei)."
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(((you)))
On Adolf's eccentricity becoming his most valuable trait
>"what came naturally to Hitler was to stoke up the hatred of others by pouring out to them the hatred that was so deeply embedded in himself. Even so, this had never before had the effect it was to have now, in the changed post-war conditions. What, in the Men’s Home in Vienna, in the Munich cafés, and in the regimental field headquarters, had been at best tolerated as an eccentricity now turned out to be Hitler’s major asset."
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On Adolf's transformation
>"The ‘nobody of Vienna’, the corporal who is not even promoted to sergeant, now appears with a full-blown political philosophy, a strategy for success, and a burning will to lead his party and sees himself as Germany’s coming great leader."
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On Adolf's thoughts about his speaking ability
>"as the crowd filed out he felt that the door to his future had at last opened. "When I closed the meeting, I was not alone in thinking that now a wolf had been born, destined to burst in upon the herd of seducers of the people." He was living up to his own name, for Adolf was derived from the Teutonic word meaning "fortunate wolf.""
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keep it up OP, I will screenshot your posts. Hurry up, I want to go to bed. Meanwhile, I'll post your old thread about Goebbels.
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On Adolf's first major speech
>"Despite worries about the attendance at the party’s first big meeting, some 2,000 people [...] were crammed into the Festsaal of the Hofbräuhaus on 24 February [...] The atmosphere suddenly livened when Hitler came to speak. His tone was harsher, more aggressive, less academic, than Dingfelder’s. The language he used was expressive, direct, coarse, earthy – that used and understood by most of his audience – his sentences short and punchy .[...] Verbal assaults on the Jews brought new cheers from the audience, while shrill attacks on profiteers produced cries of ‘Flog them! Hang them!’ [...] Hitler announced, to storms of applause, what would remain the party’s slogan: ‘Our motto is only struggle. We will go our way unshakeably to our goal."
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On Alfred Rosenberg's reaction to Adolf's early speeches
>"Alfred Rosenberg, the young architect-artist from Estonia [...] [said] "Here I saw a German front-line soldier embarking on this struggle in a manner as clear as it was convincing, counting on himself alone with the courage of a free man."
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On Hans Frank recalling Adolf's initial speeches
>"While in his Nuremberg cell awaiting the hangman, Hans Frank, the ex-Governor General of Poland, recalled the moment, in January 1920, while he was still only nineteen years old (though already committed to the völkisch cause), that he had first heard Hitler speak.The large room was bursting at the seams. Middle-class citizens rubbed shoulders with workers, soldiers, and students. [...] Frank’s most immediate feeling was how sincere Hitler was, how the words came from the heart and were not just a rhetorical device. ‘He was at that time simply the grandiose popular speaker without precedent – and, for me, incomparable,’ wrote Frank."
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He'll post a link to all his previous threads when he's done, don't bother.
Keep posting the Goebbels ones please!
On the adaptation of the swastika
>"Hitler insisted upon a party flag that could compete with the flaming red Communist banner. [...] Finally a dentist from Sternberg submitted a flag which had been used at the founding meeting of his own party local: a swastika against a black-white-red background. The swastika - originally a Sanskrit word meaning "all is all" - long a symbol of the Teutonic Knights"
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On Adolf demanding to be noticed
>"Hitler wanted above all else to make his party noticed. In this he rapidly succeeded. ‘It makes no difference whatever whether they laugh at us or revile us,’ he later wrote, ‘whether they represent us as clowns or criminals; the main thing is that they mention us, that they concern themselves with us again and again’ He observed the dull, lifeless meetings of bourgeois parties, the deadening effect of speeches read out like academic lectures by dignified, elderly gentlemen. Nazi meetings, he recorded with pride, were, by contrast, not peaceful."
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On communist protesters attending Adolf's speeches
>"there were interruptions, too, from left-wing opponents, who had already been getting restless, and the police reporter of the meeting spoke of scenes of ‘great tumult so that I often thought it would come to brawling at any minute’ [...] Around 100 Independent Socialists and Communists poured out of the Hofbräuhaus on to the streets cheering for the International and the Räterepublik and booing the war-heroes Hindenburg and Ludendorff, and the German Nationalists."
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I really love and appreciate your work here, user. It's not every day you find these consistently high quality threads.
You're the only person I'd recommend tripfagging to make it easier to find your prior threads. Or putting links to them when you make a new one. Either way, godspeed you magnificent bastard.
Also thank you for archiving them. Could you tell me what other threads you have saved from him? I'm not sure if I've seen all of them.
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Only the Goebbels one so far.
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Fuck, these jews...
Imagine seeing you country descending into this kind of crap pit, your people being turned into degenerates, what happened to jews in Europe during 2nd world war is not surprise to me anymore. Even now top of the porn industry is ruled by jews, quite interesting, I wonder if Europe with what is happening now will hit this kind of a limit and turn hardcore right in a blink of an eye, we can see it now, especially in my country but the rest of Europe is not as quick... this one time I hope history will repeat itself, not with war of course but with this social purge that happened in Germany before WWII
On Adolf's early political speeches
>" The confidential police reports on twenty of Hitler’s early speeches, delivered in smoky, crowded halls in the revolutionary Soviet Munich of 1919 and 1920, provide a series of glimpses at the outer shell of his beliefs. Here Adolf Hitler, just turned thirty years of age, expressed no grand geopolitical ideas. His agitation pivoted on the terms dictated to Berlin’s ‘craven and corrupt’ representatives at Versailles; he tried to convince his audience that defeat in the World War had been inflicted on them not by their enemies abroad, but by the revolutionaries within – the Jew-ridden politicians in Berlin. [...] the speeches are significant only for Hitler’s ceaseless reiteration that a Germany disarmed was prey to the lawless demands of her predatory neighbours. He demanded that Germany become a nation without class differences, in which manual labourer and intellectual each respected the contribution of the other."
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On Adolf's speaking strategies
>"Hitler spoke from rough notes – mainly a series of jotted headings with key words underlined. As a rule, a speech would last around two hours or more. In the Festsaal of the Hofbräuhaus he used a beer table on one of the long sides of the hall as his platform in order to be in the middle of the crowd – a novel technique for a speaker which helped create what Hitler regarded as a special mood in that hall."
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Yeah that gives me nothing if I want/need to go to bed prior to him finishing the thread.
bump
Here you go then:
Adolf Hitler - Youth (Age 0 - 25)
httparchive.4plebs.orgpolthread86086584
Adolf Hitler - First World War (Age 25 - 29)
httpsarchive.4plebs.orgpolthread134340484
Ted Kaczynski
httparchive.4plebs.orgpolthread104495239
Timothy McVeigh
httparchive.4plebs.orgpolthread118541028
Anders Breivik
httparchive.4plebs.orgpolthread87875112
H.P. Lovecraft
httpsarchive.4plebs.orgpolthread141773539
William Cottrell
httpsdesuarchive.orgr9kthread30930679
Adam Lanza
httpsdesuarchive.orgr9kthread24985710
Christopher Thomas Knight
httparchive.4plebs.orgpolthread122023099
Christopher McCandless
httparchive.4plebs.orgpolthread122167113
Christopher Harper-Mercer
https4archive.orgboardr9kthread31293613
Bill Hicks
httpsarchive.4plebs.orgpolthread128627797
Dylann Roof
httpsarchive.4plebs.orgpolthread139008559
On Adolf's intended audience
>"I set up my fighting manifesto and tailored it deliberately to attract only the toughest and most determined minority of the German people at first. When we were quite small and unimportant I often told my followers that if this manifesto is preached year after year, in thousands of speeches across the nation, it is bound to act like a magnet: gradually one steel filing after another will detach itself from the public and cling to this magnet, and then the moment will come where there’ll be this minority on the one side and the majority on the other – but this minority will be the one that makes history, because the majority will always follow where there’s a tough minority to lead the way."
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On growing violence directed toward Adolf
>"When Hitler saw that the Social Democrats had come early and taken most of the places, he ordered the doors closed. He told the SA bodyguard - there were less than fifty on hand - that this was their chance to show loyalty to the movement [...] They were to attack at the first sign of violence on the theory that the best defense was a good offense. "The answer was a threefold Heil that sounded rougher and hoarser than usual."
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On Adolf's first arrest due to violence at his speeches
>"the Weimar government hastily passed a Law for the Protection of the Republic, a Draconian decree designed to halt radical right terrorism. [...] the most feared activist in Bavaria was imprisoned the same day. Hitler [...] was placed in Stadelheim prison for inciting a riot. [...] His almost five-week term in jail with nothing to do but read or think had helped mold his obsessive hatred and fear of Jews into a more connected and purposeful polemic."
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The Goebbels thread was the best desu
Thanks
I have constantly heard morons in my public school education that hitler did everything cynically to gain power. How do these halfwits read about the suffering of wwi and spit that up or the scapegoating narrative?
On Adolf's speech about the Jewish problem
>"On August 13, 1920, the police reports show, he devoted a speech for the first time solely to the Jews. He accused them of responsibility for the war and of profiteering. The Nazi Party, he declared, must open a crusade against the Jews. ‘We do not want to whip up a pogrom atmosphere,’ he warned. ‘We must however be fired with a remorseless determination to grasp this evil at its roots and to exterminate it, root and branch.’ A few weeks later he stated explicitly, ‘We cannot skirt around the Jewish problem. It has got to be solved.’"
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On the reaction to Adolf's anti-semitic speech
>"his [...] speech [...] was interrupted fifty-eight times during its two hours’ duration by ever wilder cheering from the 2,000-strong audience.To go from a report on another Hitler speech a few weeks later, the audience would have been mainly drawn from white-collar workers, the lower-middle class, and better-off workers, with around a quarter women. "
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On Adolf's overview of the Jewish problem
>"All over Europe, he told a receptive audience in the Burgerbraukeller, a great conflict was raging between the ideals of nationalist-volkisch forces and those of international Jewry. It was the Jew who founded Social Democracy and Communism; it was the Jew who controlled the stock exchange and the workers' movement. At this point Hitler made a shrugging gesture in imitation of the stage Jew and drew an appreciative laugh."
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Good thread keep posting OP
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On Adolf's opinion of propaganda
>"In Hitler’s own conception, propaganda was the key to the nationalization of the masses, without which there could be no national salvation. It was not that propaganda and ideology were distinctive entities for him. [...] To see himself as ‘drummer’ of the national cause was, therefore, for Hitler a high calling."
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On Adolf's investment in the cause
>"Of course, he had the time in which to devote himself solely to propaganda. Unlike the other members of the party leadership, he had no other occupation or interest. Politics consumed practically his entire existence. When he was not giving speeches, or preparing them, he spent time reading. As always, much of this was the newspapers – giving him regular ammunition for his scourge of Weimar politicians. He had books – a lot of them popular editions – on history, geography, Germanic myths, and, especially, war [...] on the shelves of his shabby, sparsely furnished room at 41 Thierschstraße, down by the Isar."
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On Adolf viewing himself as a mere 'drummer'
>"Hitler was content in the early 1920s to be the ‘drummer’ – whipping up the masses for the ‘national movement’. He saw himself at this time not as portrayed in Mein Kampf, as Germany’s future leader in waiting, the political messiah whose turn would arise once the nation recognized his unique greatness. Rather, he was paving the way for the great leader whose day might not dawn for many years to come. ‘I am nothing more than a drummer and rallier,’ he told the neo-conservative writer Arthur Moeller van den Bruck in 1922. Some months earlier, he had reputedly stated [...] that he was not the leader and statesman who would ‘save the Fatherland that was sinking into chaos’, but only ‘the agitator who understood how to rally the masses’"
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On Adolf's message to the German youth
>"the young man who does not find his way to the place where in the last resort the destiny of his people is most truly represented, only studies philosophy and in a time like this buries himself behind his books or sits at home by the fire, he is no German youth! I call upon you! Join our storm troops!"
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On Adolf's love of cakes
>"One of those who looked after him was the first ‘Hitler-Mutti’, Frau Hermine Hofmann, the elderly widow of a headmaster, who plied Hitler with endless offerings of cakes and turned her house at Solln on the outskirts of Munich for a while into a sort of unofficial party headquarters."
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Great thread user. Are you the same one who did a Goebbels one last month? I can’t wait for more. Fascists all seem to have had the most interesting lives.
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On Adolf's eventful trip to Bavaria
>"Hitler’s most notable propaganda success in 1922 was his party’s participation in the so-called ‘German Day’ (Deutscher Tag) in Coburg on 14–15 October. Coburg, on the Thuringian border in the north of Upper Franconia and part of Bavaria for only two years, was virgin territory for the Nazis. He saw the German Day as an opportunity not to be missed. He scraped together what funds the NSDAP had to hire a special train – in itself a novel propaganda stunt – to take 800 stormtroopers to Coburg. The SA men were instructed by Hitler to ignore explicit police orders, banning a formation march with unfurled banners and musical accompaniment, and marched with hoisted swastika flags through the town. Workers lining the streets insulted them and spat at them. [...] A furious battle with the socialists ensued. After ten minutes of mayhem [...] the stormtroopers triumphantly claimed the streets of Coburg as theirs."
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On the result of the Nazi display at Coburg
>"The following morning, Sunday, the leftists called a mass demonstration "to throw out the Nazis". Ten thousand protesters were expected [...] the storm troopers with Hitler in the lead paraded into the center of the city but there were only a few hundred demonstrators at the square. Yesterday the citizens had stood on the sidewalks watching [...] with silent disapproval. Today hundreds of imperial flags hung from the windows and friendly crowds lined the way, cheering the National Socialists with their strange emblem."
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Thanks user, Looking forward to seeing the screenshots for this Hitler thread. Have some OC of mine
On Adolf's growing group of followers
>"His followers portrayed him, in fact, as Germany’s ‘heroic’ leader before he came to see himself in that light. Not that he did anything to discourage the new way he was being portrayed from autumn 1922 onwards. It was in December 1922 that the Völkischer Beobachter for the first time appeared to claim that Hitler was a special kind of leader – indeed the Leader for whom Germany was waiting. Followers of Hitler leaving a parade in Munich were said ‘to have found something which millions are yearning for, a leader.’"
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On Rudolf Hess joining Adolf's inner circle
>""he rarely smiled, did not smoke, despised alcohol and had no patience with young people enjoying dancing and social life after a war had been lost." An enigma, except to those who knew him intimately, Hess was the ideal disciple. Too bashful and uninspiring to strive for power, he was prepared to follow Hitler wherever he led."
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On Adolf's generosity towards his followers
>"Never one to underrate a follower no matter how humble, and perhaps remembering the miserable days in Vienna, Hitler opened up the new, more spacious party headquarters on Comeliusstrasse to those down-at-heel followers who needed a refuge from the cold. "In the winter time," recalled Philipp Bouhler, "the anteroom was a place to warm up for unemployed party members and supporters"
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Bumping this fantastic thread
Just wondering, why didn't Hitler become a royalist? I've always wondered that.
Hitler literally thought he was the German people, he was so empathic for the Germans that it had it's good and bad sides. We know how he raised Germany to the top but when the war seemed lost he decided to take everything to the ground with him.
On US Intelligence investigating Adolf
>"[Agent] Smith met Hitler [...] the room was "drab and dreary beyond belief; akin to a back bedroom in a decaying New York tenement." The first words Smith wrote down in his notebook [...] "A marvelous demagogue. I have rarely listened to such a logical and fanatical man. His power over the mob must be immense." [...] By the time Smith left the dingy room he was convinced Hitler would be an important factor in German politics. He accepted a ticket for Hitler's next speech [...] [but] passed it on to Ernst Hanfstaengl. [...] Would Hanfstaengl be kind enough to look at this fellow Hitler and pass on his conclusions?"
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On Adolf's new American supporter
>"Ernst ‘Putzi’ Hanfstaengl, a [...] cultured part-American – his mother [...] was a descendant of a colonel who had fought in the Civil War – from an upper middle-class art-dealer family, Harvard graduate, partner in an art-print publishing firm, and extremely well-connected in Munich salon society. [...] was greatly impressed by Hitler’s power to sway the masses. ‘Far beyond his electrifying rhetoric,’ he later wrote, ‘this man seemed to possess the uncanny gift of coupling the gnostic yearning of the era for a strong leader-figure with his own missionary claim and to suggest in this merging that every conceivable hope and expectation was capable of fulfilment – an astonishing spectacle of suggestive influence of the mass psyche.’ Hanfstaengl was plainly fascinated by the subaltern, petty-bourgeois Hitler in his shabby blue suit, looking part-way between an NCO and a clerk, with awkward mannerisms, but possessing such power as a speaker when addressing a mass audience."
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>when the war seemed lost he decided to take everything to the ground with him.
That was thanks to (((Allied propaganda))), when the book "Germany must perish", the Hooton Plan and the Morgenthau Plan proclaimed to literally eradicate the German people by various means, surrender is literally no option.
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This right here, is extremely good! Thank you for positing that!
Right now, I'm copying all of the text of OP from this thread onto a document. I'll share it if you'd like.
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On Adolf's change of living quarters
>"He still lived in the dingy building on the Thierschstrasse but had sublet a larger room, not as cold as the first, if as scantily furnished. It was ten feet wide at most [...] [with] a single narrow window. [...] On the wall opposite the bed there was a makeshift bookshelf. [...] The upper shelves of the bookcase overflowed with volumes on the World War, German histories [...] The bottom shelf, according to Hanfstaengl, was devoted to novels, a collection of semi-pornographic works by Eduard Fuchs (a Jew), and A History of Erotic Art."
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On the eccentric Adolf befriending Munich's upper-class
>"In his gangster hat and trenchcoat over his dinner jacket, touting a pistol and carrying as usual his dog-whip, he cut a bizarre figure in the salons of Munich’s upper-crust.But his very eccentricity of dress and exaggerated mannerisms – the affected excessive politeness of one aware of his social inferiority – saw him lionized by condescending hosts and fellow-guests. His social awkwardness and uncertainty, often covered by either silence or tendency to monologues, but at the same time the consciousness of his public success that one could read in his face, made him an oddity, affording him curiosity value among the patronizing cultured and well-to-do pillars of the establishment."
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On one American woman's memory of Adolf
>"Helene, was an American of German descent who was tall, brunette and strikingly attractive. [...] she describes their first meeting on a Munich street in early 1923: "He was at the time a slim, shy young man, with a far-away look in his very blue eyes. He was dressed most shabbily - a cheap shirt, black tie, a worn dark blue suit, with which he wore an incongruous dark brown leather vest, a beige-colored trench coat, much the worse for wear, cheap black shoes and soft, old greyish hat. His appearance was quite pathetic."
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That would be great. I could even make up a small image similar to the Joseph Goebbels one.
Here's some more OC
In fairness, I don’t think the reds would have given them much alternatives. We, and the germans at the time, knew that the reds gave the neutral poles and baltics the katyn treatment. There’s not much reason they would treat their invaders better.
On Adolf's love of children
>"She [Hanfstaengl's wife] saw Hitler as a warm man and was moved by his feeling for her two-year-old son, Egon. "Evidently he liked children, or he was a good actor." One day the youngster ran to meet Hitler at the door, bumped his head sharply against a heavy chair, and began crying. "Hitler with a dramatic gesture beat the chair severely, reprimanding it for hurting 'good little Egon' [...] from that day, each time Hitler came he would have to repeat this act; Egon urging him 'Please, Uncle Adolf, spank the naughty chair.'"
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On Adolf's continued ascetic lifestyle
>"Hitler was still living at his little room on the Thierschstrasse, and although he was received as a hero in some of the best homes in Germany, his standard of living remained monastic. It was common talk in the neighborhood that he even shared some of his short supplt of shirts and socks with the needy. In his modest room he received admirers rich and poor, from all over Germany [...] Many a hand-kiss insured lifelong devotion from women; men were reassured by his [...] down-to-earth, man-to-man approach."
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On Adolf's poem for his deceased mother
>"In this dingy room he must have thought of his mother and her tragic death, for he wrote about it that year in a a poem entitled "Think of It!" [...]
>'When your mother has grown older.
>And you have grown older,
>When what was formerly easy and effortless
>Now becomes a burden
>When her dear loyal eyes
>Do not look out into life as before,
>When her legs have grown tired
>And do not want to carry her any more -
>Then give her your arm for support
>Accompany her with gladness and joy.
>The hour will come when, weeping, you
>Will accompany her on her last journey!
>[...]
>The hour will come, the bitter hour
>When her mouth will ask no more!'"
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That would be absolutely wonderful!
Where is the based screenshot fag, I need my screenshots
>Please, Uncle Adolf, spank the naughty chair.
Kinky
Do you have anything on his involvement in the bavarian soviet republic?
On Germany's declining economy in 1923
>"the deteriorating conditions in Germany [...] as summer turned to autumn, and the currency collapsed totally under the impact of the ‘passive resistance’ policy, guaranteed an increasing appeal for Hitler’s brand of agitation [...] The country was bankrupt, its currency ruined.[...] Speculators and profiteers thrived. But the material consequences of the hyper-inflation for ordinary people were devastating, the psychological effects incalculable. Savings of a lifetime were wiped out within hours.[...] Those with pensions and fixed incomes saw their only source of support dissolve into worthlessness. Workers were less badly hit. [...] it was little wonder that the massive discontent brought sharp political radicalization on the Left as well as on the Right. "
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On the consequences of inflation
>"The burden of inflation naturally fell on those who could not pay with notes - the workers and the elderly. The first were reduced to a near starvation diet and the latter were brought to poverty level overnight. Pensioners [...] found themselves destitute. [...] But the greatest beneficiaries were the exchange barons, the profiteers and opportunistic foreigners who bought up jewelry and real estate at ridiculously low prices. Large estates and buildings went to these vultures [...] Family heirlooms were exchanged for enough to feed a family for weeks."
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On Adolf's thoughts on inflation and bureocracy
>‘I believe that the Reichsmark’s decline in value will be halted on the day they stop printing money. The government however just keeps printing masses of fresh paper money to camouflage its own bankruptcy. Everywhere in government agencies where there used to be just one man there are now three or four. That’s got to stop. Only a brutal government can make any headway against this paradise for parasites and hangers-on – a dictator to whom personal popularity means nothing."
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Just create and share the document and I'll see what I can do design wise. Any thoughts on a title for it? Could be a kind of image version of The Greatest Story Never Told
On Adolf's belief that Germany needed a dictator
>"‘Anybody who refuses to work on the terms that the dictator lays down finds himself fired. Only the best men get hired. The men who got into the government agencies because of the party they belonged to will be out on their ears.’ He repeated that he believed that the German people needed ‘a monarch-like idol’ – but not some mild-mannered king, so much as a ‘full-blooded and ruthless ruler,’ a dictator who would rule with an iron hand," [...] Thus spoke Adolf Hitler, aged thirty-three"
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On Adolf's speech on the Ruhr scandal
>"By January 1923, in the explosive climate following the French march into the Ruhr, the rumours in Munich of a Hitler putsch were even stronger. [...] On this occasion at least, the Reich government seemed to be acting firmly – and acting with mass popular support – through its campaign of ‘passive resistance’ against the occupation. [...] Undeterred, Hitler saw advantage to be gained from the French occupation. As usual, he went on a propaganda offensive."
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On Karl von Muller recalling Adolf's Ruhr speech
>"I was very close when he marched through and I saw that this was different from the man I had met here and there in private houses; his small pale face expressed an inner fanaticism. His eyes glanced from right to left as if looking for enemies to conquer. Was it the mass which gave him this strange power? Did it flow from him to the mass? I noted down, 'Fanatically hysterical romanticism with a brutal will.'"
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On Adolf's speech on German Day
>"The streets were a sea of of Nazi and Bavarian flags as the crowd roared "Heil!" waved handkerchiefs and tossed flowers and wreaths [...] "It was the unbridled expression of the multitude of defeated, miserable, displaced, and shattered people, who now saw a ray of hope, of freedom from slavery and need. Many women and men cried, so overcome were they by emotion.""
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On Ernst Rohm arming the SA
>"In addition to monetary donations,Röhm saw to it that the SA, along with other paramilitary organizations, was well provided with equipment and weapons from his secret arsenal. Whatever the financial support, without Röhm’s supplies an armed putsch would scarcely have been possible. In November 1922, rumours were already circulating that Hitler was planning a putsch."
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On Adolf under pressure to attempt a putsch
>"Hitler was under pressure to act.The leader of the Munich SA regiment, Wilhelm Brückner, told him: ‘The day is coming when I can no longer hold my people. If nothing happens now the men will sneak away.’ Scheubner-Richter said much the same: ‘In order to keep the men together, one must finally undertake something. Otherwise the people will become Left radicals.’ Hitler himself used almost the identical argument with head of the Landespolizei Colonel Hans Ritter von Seißer at the beginning of November: ‘Economic pressures drive our people so that we must either act or our followers will swing to the Communists.’"
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On Adolf leading the Munich putsch
>"Kahr had been reading out his prepared speech to the 3,000 or so packed into the Bürgerbräukeller for about half an hour when, around 8.30 p.m., there was a disturbance at the entrance. Kahr broke off his speech. A body of men in steel helmets appeared. Hitler’s stormtroopers had arrived. A heavy machine-gun was pushed into the hall. People were standing on their seats trying to see what was happening as Hitler advanced through the hall, accompanied by two armed bodyguards [...]. Hitler stood on a chair but, unable to make himself heard in the tumult, took out his Browning pistol and fired a shot through the ceiling. He then announced that the national revolution had broken out, and that the hall was surrounded by 600 armed men. If there was trouble [...] he would bring a machine-gun into the gallery.The Bavarian government was deposed; a provisional Reich government would be formed. [...] Hitler returned to the hall after about ten minutes amid renewed tumult. He repeated Göring’s assurances that the action was not directed at the police and Reichswehr, but ‘solely at the Berlin Jew government and the November criminals of 1918’. [...] As the crowd bellowed [...] Hitler, with his pronounced sense of the theatrical, announced in emotional terms: ‘I can say this to you: Either the German revolution begins tonight or we will all be dead by dawn!’ By the time he had finished his short address the mood in the hall had swung completely in his favour."
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On the reaction to Adolf's beerhall declaration
>"Overcome by mass excitement and beer, the audience could hardly contain its delight. Forgotten were earlier derision and even anger. The crowd stood and roared out "Deutschland uber Alles." Tears streamed down many a cheek and some people were so emotionally wrought they could not even sing. But someone next to a state police officer turned and said, "The only thing missing is the psychiatrist."
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On Adolf's attempt to seize power
>"Around noon, the column of about 2,000 men – many of them, including Hitler, armed – set out from the Bürgerbräukeller. Pistols at the ready, they confronted a small police cordon on the Ludwigsbrücke and under threat swept it aside, headed to Marienplatz, in the centre of the city, and decided then to march to the War Ministry.They gained encouragement from throngs of shouting and waving supporters on the pavements. Some thought they were witnessing the arrival of the new government. [...] At the top of the Residenzstraße, as it approaches Odeonsplatz, the marchers encountered the second, and larger, police cordon. ‘Here they come. Heil Hitler!’ a bystander cried out.Then shots rang out. When the firing ceased, fourteen putschists and four policemen lay dead."
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On the defeat of Adolf's putsch
>"The dead included one of the putsch architects,Erwin von Scheubner-Richter, who had been in the front line of the putsch leaders, linking arms with Hitler, just behind the standard-bearers. Had the bullet which killed Scheubner-Richter been a foot to the right, history would have taken a different course. [...] Hitler [...] was attended to by Dr Walter Schultze [...] pushed into his car, stationed nearby, and driven at speed from the scene of the action. He ended up at Hanfstaengl’s home in Uffing, near the Staffelsee, south of Munich, where the police, on the evening of 11 November, found [...] him"
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>>"Hitler was still living at his little room on the Thierschstrasse, and although he was received as a hero in some of the best homes in Germany, his standard of living remained monastic. It was common talk in the neighborhood that he even shared some of his short supplt of shirts and socks with the needy. In his modest room he received admirers rich and poor, from all over Germany [...] Many a hand-kiss insured lifelong devotion from women; men were reassured by his [...] down-to-earth, man-to-man approach."
I come from a very poor background. People usually tend to do exactly the opposite than sharing. He was just too good for this planet.
Anyways, thank you OP, you are one of the most based posters of the Sup Forums.