Der Fuehrer - Hitler's Rise to Power (1944) - Heiden

118 DER FUEHRERmurder party fumed about state tyranny, the strangling of democracy,dictatorship. In Bavaria the Right radical movement (the disbanded, butnevertheless growing and thriving, murderers' army), again threatenedrevolt. The otherwise co-operative Bavarian government feared arestriction of its sovereignty by Berlin. In defense of this sovereignty,Munich assumed an attitude of defiance toward Berlin and, half againstits will, was driven forward by the Right radicals. The half-century-oldhatred of the Bavarian South for the Prussian North gushed forth in asizzling jet of hatred.Amid this tumult, Hitler was released from prison. He immediatelyspoke to the masses. The resultant speech was one of his most notableand casts a considerable light on his own person.He strove to make clear the deeper contexts underlying the events ofthe day. He related the secret history of world domination, describingwith many images how the power struggling for world dominationconcealed itself behind opposite pretexts and ideologies; here assuminga national, there an international, guise, today capitalistic, tomorrowanti-capitalistic, but always seeking the most suitable means ofapproaching one step closer to world domination. He says expressly thatthe struggle is international, not concerned with any one nation. Hefinds a name, now familiar to all, for the social type with which heidentifies himself and for whose victory he is fighting; he calls this typethe 'intelligentsia' or, more graphically, the 'brain-worker,' hinting at theclose relationship between the modern intellectual and the moderneducated proletarian. In broad and prolix periods, he summons thisintelligentsia to take up the struggle against the world domination ofJewry; now and then a narrow rent in the tissue of his oratory permits aglance at his own future world domination; in later speeches the rentgrows wider. The speech runs in part:Today we all of us feel that two worlds are struggling with oneanother, and not alone in our country, but everywhere we look, inoppressed Russia, in Italy, in France, and England, etc. An inexorablestruggle between the ideals of those who believe in a national peopleand the ideals of the intangible, supra-national international. . . .It is a struggle that dates back nearly one hundred and twenty