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

PROTOCOLS OF WISE MEN OF ZION 17against the Jewish intellectuals — the lawyers, doctors, governmentofficials, and others who had made themselves, by their share in moderneducation, so influential a part of society.We are living in the age of technology. Technology is more than thetransformation of heat into power. It is, in general, the domination ofbrute force by trained intelligence. Natural scientists have studied thesoul, and vaudeville 'professors' have demonstrated the power ofhypnosis. The fakirs are not the only ones who can cast a spell over themasses. Here, this book shows what great things are possible, even withthe simplest methods. Alfred Rosenberg is an engineer and architect, ayoung man who in a few months will take his examinations forregistered engineer. The powers have laid this book on his desk andthereby given him the watchword that was to govern his life, the opensesame of technology: everything is possible.With the book in his bag, he fled at the beginning of 1918 to hisnative city of Reval, later called Tallinn. German troops took the city.Rosenberg remembered that he was a German. He volunteered for theGerman army, to fight against the Bolsheviki who for some months hadbeen in the saddle in Petersburg and Moscow. The Germancommandant distrusted the German Russian and rejected him. Heremained a civilian, earning his living as a drawing instructor at theGymnasium. His eyes were still fixed on Russia. The Bolsheviki haddisbanded the Constituent Assembly, proclaimed the dictatorship of theproletariat and the advent of socialism, but at the same time had giventhe poor peasants land, or rather summoned them to take it; they hadbrutally suppressed all political freedom, all opposition parties. Thoseaffected resisted; there were plots and assassinations. The Bolsheviki, ina desperate life-and-death struggle, always in power but always on thebrink of catastrophe, struck down their enemies by ruthless, barbaricterror. They acted in accordance with the recommendations of TheProtocols of Zion. Were they not themselves the Wise Men of Zion?Hadn't they Jewish leaders? Isn't Lenin, their top leader, a Jew? In this,to be sure, Rosenberg was mistaken. Lenin was no more a Jew thanRykov, Kalinin, Krassin, Bucharin, and other Bolshevik leaders of theold guard; but Trotzky, Zinoviev, Radek were Jews.