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

THE AGE OF GOLD 259is the civil career of Hermann Goring. Or, finally, student at a secondaryschool, leaves the school because of laziness before an examination,three times rejected at two academies, successively occasional worker,suitcase carrier, beggar, painter of picture postcards, poster painter,several times inmate of a men's lodging-house, later without profession,supported by friends — this typical failure's career is the civil life ofAdolf Hitler.And now in the Burgerbrau Keller, this failure speaks words ofconsolation and encouragement to those like him, telling them not todespise themselves, for in reality they are better than the others. You areAryans. You are the pure blood; that is more than possessions or rank; itis the highest, and this highest is just what the Jew wants to take awayfrom you and destroy because he has already taken away and destroyedeverything else. For the Jew is the type suited to the normal world oftoday, with its equalization which kills the personality; he is the typewho makes the mass dominant in order to kill the outstandingindividual; for the outstanding individual might offer resistance toJewish world domination.In order to kill the people's instincts of defense, the Jew poisons thepure Aryan blood. If, says Hitler, he could take his audience out of theBurgerbrau Keller for a moment, and carry them away — as on a magiccarpet — he would take them to Berlin and give them a look at theFriedrich Strasse, the center of night life in the capital: 'There youwould see Jewish youths and more Jewish youths with German girls intheir arms. Bear in mind that thousands and thousands of our blood aredestroyed in this way every night, and children and children's childrenare lost to us.' Hitler spoke as plainly as is possible in a public speech.The German nation could shake off all its miseries, nullify itsreparations obligations, eliminate its ruling political parties — yes, 'wecan break the peace treaty . . . but once the blood is poisoned it can nolonger be changed. It remains and multiplies and presses us lower fromyear to year. If today you are surprised that our people is inwardly sotorn, remember this: out of the torn German people speaks its tornblood.' Applause from a thoughtful audience. It was clear that anyonewhose own feeling prompted him to defend himself