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

THE DEATH OF MONEY 147and smashed windows.' The bourgeois, even the Nationalist press,began to take fright and talk of 'Bolshevism'; and Hitler himself boasted:'In our movement the two extremes come together: the Communistsfrom the Left and the officers and the students from the Right. Thesetwo have always been the most active elements, and it was the greatestcrime that they used to oppose each other in street fights. TheCommunists were the idealists of socialism; through years ofpersecution they saw their mortal enemy in the officer; while theofficers fought the Communists because they inevitably saw the mortalenemy of their fatherland in the proletarian led astray by the Jew. Ourparty has already succeeded in uniting these two utter extremes withinthe ranks of our storm troops. They will form the core of the greatGerman liberation movement, in which all without distinction will standtogether when the day comes to say: The nation arises, the storm isbreaking!'At the Paris Peace Conference, Woodrow Wilson said to Clemenceauand Lloyd George that Germany in 1919 was an alliance betweenjunkers and Bolsheviks. That it was not. But Wilson had sensedsomething. The alliance was in the air; the German leaders of 1919rejected it; Hitler seized on it in his own way. He led the uprootedproletarians and the uprooted intellectuals together. And this gives riseto a new man: 'Neither of the two could exist without the other. Bothbelong together, and from these two a new man must crystallize — theman of the coming German Reich.'Gerhard Rossbach assures us, almost with tenderness, that hisdrinkers and killers were 'a new troop of light-seeking fighters forfreedom. . . . Some day, dedicated to death, they will have to fight onnative soil for the life of the nation.' On native soil — for the armedbohemians fight to subjugate their own people. Hitler had meantnothing else when he prophesied that the fight against the Soviet Star —the fight of German against German — would renew the nation.This brings us to the great cleft that divides Hitler, and with him hiscause, in two. He summons the Aryans and anti-Semites of all countriesto the struggle against Soviet Star and Judaism. He even accusesJudaism of having driven the European nations into