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

64 DER FUEHRERhoped to breathe new strength into the sickened empire. He was notinterested in nationalities; he was no Pan-German; he wanted neither togo away from Rome nor home to the Reich. And yet one could learnfrom him. How well this unknown, nameless man had fought his way topower, almost to omnipotence! With his 'rare knowledge of men' hetook — as Hitler describes him — good care 'not to see people as betterthan they are' — the young student of life from the lodging-house couldagree with a burning heart. And Lueger had put his profound knowledgeof human affairs into a form 'corresponding to the receptivity of thebroad masses which is very small'; yes, Lueger knew the great brainlessworking beast. There were in particular two secrets of success whichHitler thought he had learned from him: Lueger put the chief emphasis'on the winning of classes whose existence is threatened,' because onlysuch classes carry on the political struggle with passion; secondly, hetook pains in 'inclining powerful existing institutions to his use.' InLueger's case, this was the all-powerful Catholic Church; in anothercase, it might have been the German Army or the Bank of England; andno one will ever have any success in politics who overlooks this obviousfact.But whatever Hitler learned or thought he had learned from hismodel, Lueger, he learned far more from his opponent. And thisopponent, whom he combated from the profound hatred of his soul, isand remains plain ordinary work. Organized, it calls itself labormovement, trade union, Socialist Party. And, or so it seems to him, Jewsare always the leaders.The relatively high percentage of Jews in the leadership of theSocialist parties on the European continent cannot be denied. Theintellectual of the bourgeois era had not yet discovered the workers, andif the workers wanted to have leaders with university education, oftenonly the Jewish intellectual remained — the type which might haveliked to become a judge or government official, but in Germany,Austria, or Russia simply could not. Yet, though many Socialist leadersare Jews, only few Jews are Socialist leaders. To call the mass ofmodern Jewry Socialist, let alone revolutionary, is a bad propagandajoke. The imaginary Jew portrayed in The Protocols of the Wise Menof Zion ostensibly wants to bend the