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

280 DER FUEHRERbe gagged. He ventured to hint that it might be better if Hitler were notalways accompanied by the blond creature who did not fit into themodest social circumstances of the National Socialist province. Thiswas too much for Hitler. Were they going to forbid him his private life?Was Munder drawing an innocent young girl into the debate? Attackinga defenseless woman? If this gauleiter was such a petty bourgeois, hewas useless; with fine morals and family feeling you do not build up aNational Socialist movement. The quarrel went on for years; finallyMunder was dismissed (1928).The beauty of life, independence, money! That was the deepest reasonwhy Hitler sat on his magic mountain, left the party more or less to itsvicissitudes, and piled up the pages of a thick manuscript. In 1922, hehad sat down to write a work to be entitled A Reckoning. What hemeant was a reckoning with his own friends, the lukewarm and thethree-quarters warm, the apparent allies and bitter rivals. Dietrich Eckarthad already written a book about him. It was called Bolshevism fromMoses to Lenin; Hitler, introduced as a speaker, explains how Judahtried to conquer the world; first with the help of the TenCommandments; then (this was only hinted rather shamefacedly) byChristianity; finally through Marxism and Bolshevism; for Hitler andEckart had no doubt that Lenin was a Jew. Then Gottfried Feder, the'breaker of interest-slavery,' had written a book about the party aims andarrogated to himself the right to proclaim and interpret the basic doctrineof National Socialism as the highest intellectual arbiter; he had noteven bothered himself about the sacred party program of the twenty-fivepoints, but based his book on a draft program which he himself hadwritten in the old days. He had declared the diabolical omnipotence ofbanking capital, Judah's world domination through loan interest, to bethe key to world history. Alfred Rosenberg, embittered over so muchdry economics, had thereupon himself written a book about the aims ofthe party, holding strictly to the twenty-five points; following histeacher Chamberlain, he laid far more emphasis on race in worldhistory, the inequality of human types, the superiority of the Germanic.But in one thing the rivals had been tacitly agreed: there must be anintellectual authority