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

THE UPROOTED AND DISINHERITED 327it 'an error on the part o£ our government to suppose that England,which has fought us for thirty years, should today take our part.' Threeyears later, in May, 1930, at a general meeting of his party in Munich,he expressed a new insight: 'The formation of the world powers whichonce oppressed us no longer seems indissoluble, and already shows themost serious breaches. For many years I have been fighting for aconnection with Italy. In the future England, too, will be France's foe[she will also be the adversary of America, but Hitler could not verywell tell his assembled lieutenants that Germany should prepare for anew war against America] . . . and after a certain time seek new supportin Europe. A time will come when a new triple alliance: England,Germany, Italy, will form. With it will come our hour for the GermanReich and people.' The 'hour,' as always, means war.Two dictatorships and a democracy would form a triple alliance! ButHitler doubted that England was a democracy; in any event, he wasconvinced that the England which won the World War under LloydGeorge had been a dictatorship. Aryans and anti-Semites of allcountries, unite! 'Today we are mobilizing a great people,' he said inDecember, 1928, 'and even today we can see how, though underdifferent banners, the same spirit is beginning to stir in the mostdifferent nations, how it presses forward, seeking the form that seemssuited to the particular peoples, how everywhere the same spirit fights,how everywhere this spirit creates the same forms to carry through thestruggle against the carriers of poison throughout the world. . . .'That England belonged to this Aryan world was a favorite idea ofAlfred Rosenberg, ambassador of the Wise Men of Zion. For five yearsfull of privations, Rosenberg had written the Volkischer Beobachteralmost single-handed; with the energy of the possessed, he had gatheredanti-Semitic material on all sides and written a thick book; in additionhe had found time to devise a sort of theory of foreign politics for hisparty. Since 1928 he held a seat in the Reichstag, where he madespeeches on foreign policy, sharply attacking the views of his partyassociate, Gregor Strasser. While Strasser wanted to incite all thecolored peoples — Chinese, Indians, Persians, Egyptians — against theCity of London, Rosenberg re-