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

616 DER FUEHRERin force of arms, thought primarily of war against Poland — and nowHitler was making peace with this main enemy.But Hitler was a political strategist far superior to any emotionalnationalist. This was why, even in his Reichstag speech of March 23, hehad said: the fight against Communism is 'our domestic affair in whichwe never shall tolerate any interference'; but toward the Sovietgovernment the Reich government is willing to travel friendly waysbeneficial to both parties.' Three days previous, Goring had declared: 'Itis no business of ours what happens in Russia, and it is no business ofRussia's what happens in Germany'; he was firmly convinced that'German-Russian relations will remain as friendly as in the past years.'No, even more friendly, as it turned out. For Germany renewed theBerlin friendship pact with Russia — which had been forgotten, after itsexpiration in 1931, by the Bruning government, the Papen government,and the Schleicher government. This took place on May 5, a day afterthe exchange of the friendly declarations with Poland. If Hitler couldstill say that German National Socialism was a bulwark against thespread of Bolshevism to westward, he nevertheless remained true to hiswords to Herve: an armed western crusade against Soviet Russia underGerman leadership, as Papen had contemplated, was not in his plans.Presumably with the intention of explaining to British leaders thepeaceable, defensive nature of German anti-Bolshevism and Germanpolicy in general, Alfred Rosenberg went to London on May 1.Rosenberg then looked like the future Foreign Minister of Germany.The ambassador of the Wise Men of Zion had, on March 31, becomehead of the newly created 'Foreign Office of the N.S.D.A.P.' For thosepositions of state power which the National Socialists could not occupywith their own people, they created corresponding 'shadow offices' intheir own party organization, in this way setting up a second state besidethe state — by no means always to the pleasure of Hitler, who, however,could not deny this consolation to those of his 'paladins' who had beenneglected in the distribution of booty. For the moment Rosenberg in his'foreign office' could do nothing but draw up projects and memorialscriticizing the official conduct of diplomatic affairs by Neurath and his