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“HITLER-SPEAKS”-
By Dr. Rauschning
EAGLE'S EYRIE
For years now, Hitler has spent auch of his time at the Obersalzberg, his "home" near Berchtesgaden. Visi tors came and went; they came by command, summoned with threats. A new and remarkable political method made its appearance. Germany and the world looked on passively while Hitler-threw to the winds all the rules of diplomacy. The ruler of the coun- try stayed on his mountain in remote southern, Bavaria; the administrative machine and the foreign diplomats had to make the best of this hindrance to
their labours.
The mountain seat grew into a re- markable building, in which boys' dreams or the fantastic ideas of de- tective story writers found concrete realisation.. Bavarians were reminded of their romantic King Ludwig II, with his fairyland castles, his isolation, and his final madness. In a rocky ravine, concealed and shut off from the world, a lift tubes several hundred yards. It' leads to a glass-walled building, hid- den away in the rocky wilderness of the Bavarian mountains, looking across to the Watzmann. Here, high above the world, far beyond reach, the Ger- man Fuehrer sits enthroned. It is his eagle's eyrie. Here he looks out to eternity. Here he challenges his neon. He feels he should never have to
leave this place. He ought to give his commands from this solitude, like a god in the clouds. From here, where nobody disturbs him, his glass-walled house in the mountain, his eagle's eyrie. The reports he needs should be sent to him here. He would rule from here.
But need he go on plaguing himself with all this detail? Is it his business to carry on an administration? Let the others seo to all that. He must keep himself free for the great decisions. Why must he wage war? He is over- come with weariness. He thinks now fairly frequently of death.
He remembers his "Testament,” It provides for everything. Ho will live on in that, even if he is now to die. The thought of the testament is a re- lief to him. The things still to be done are contained in it. His young com- rades will carry them out. For them the testament will be sacred.
This testament provides for the building up of the Order, the definitive framing of his National Socialist Party Order. It names his successors. He thinks with hatred of Goering. To yield his place to that man. But there is no way out of it. It will not be for long. Goering will not live long.
The testament contains the plan of the Reich, the structure of the new Greater Reich, its Constitution, and the new "Declaration of Rights.' This Constitution is to be proclaimed in It is Versailles, after the victories.
to be proclaimed, with the new per- petual peace, at the end of the war. This testament contains the internal organisation of his Reich, the social statute, and the new economic system. And this testament contains, last and highest of all, the religious revelation, the first tentative sentences of the new Holy Book which he will confer on the world, if he lives.
But he will not live. He feels that he will not. He has been marked down by death. Others will have to complete
his work.
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He is filled with anguish. The feel- ings of happiness that were uplifting him only a moment before have gone. Traps are being set for him, bushes. He hears whispering that stops as he approaches. People look more and more curiously ́at him. They are discussing him. What can these people want to say about him? They are not joking; they all have a sinister look. These people are up to something.
And his old opponents? Are not these more numerous than ever? Are they not raising their heads again, with impudent daring? Those officers and Junkers, in whose presence he al- ways felt a little uncomfortable, those conceited officials, those unimaginative industrialists.
And the masses? They are beginning
Suddenly his problems begin to press him; they are beginning to be inde- pendont of him. He used himself to be the one to push on; now everything has begun to take charge. He is being carried away. He is only able with difficulty to keep on his feet. And sud- denly all the problems are pressing at once! He no longer has any freedom of decision. These deadly problems have acquired a will
their
own.
They
are dragging Must he now carry out the things he him the way he does not want to go. has passionately fought against? Is he not being carried along, step by step, in the opposite direction to the one he meant to take?
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Really, has he achieved anything? Will not everything collapse when he is no longer at the head? If only he' had introduced his Constitution, if only
he had carried his statute into law. terity. His successors will mutilate and Now nothing will go down to pos- falsify everything, they will trample
on his memory and befoul it, just as he did with his predecessors, and his opponents. Nothing of his will remain, except a few buildings as curiosities. The buildings! Perhaps after all he was no more than an architect, and all the rest was just a roundabout way of enabling him to bulld-him, the stumped candidate for entry into the
school of architecture!
Grotesquely devious life's path! He has really done nothing that has permanence, Everything will be tran- story like a confused morning dream, He knows the masses well enough. He has lived among them. He has been too close to them not to despise them for all time. And they will "hate" and despise him. With all the breathless, take their revenge for having once be- panting greed of the stunted, they will
lieved in him and acclaimed him—a man no better than themselves. Just a guitersnipe like themselves. A gut- tersnipe who pushed himself up by fraud where he had no place. They yelled the loudest in his praise; now they will be the first to stone him. Their women will spit at him. They will shriek for his execution would, if he were dend.
or
not already long
Is he not dead already? Is he not just dreaming all this? He grows faint. His life was a feverish dream. He will
be called the great culprit. He has The foundation on which he meant to achieved nothing, except destruction.
bulld has suddenly disappeared. It is all a phantasm. Where now is his new Relch? Are not Austria and Czecho- slovakia falling away already? Can he stop them? Has he not dug a cleft for all time between the Reich and Aus-
tria? Where is the Constitution, the (regional) structure, by new Gau means of which he intended to extir- pate the memory of the historic past, of the princes? Where is the Greater German Union, that federalisation un- der Germany of all Europe? What is his social system, his becoming of army?
Doubts and apprehensions clutch at his throat. He is hoarse again. He feels his pulse. He is afraid. The threads are closing round him. "I do not want to Sweat breaks out on him. He die!" shivers. The prophecy, the last horos- cope! He threw that warning to the winds.
The solitude oppresses him. He is in terror of it. Something frightful is closing in on him. He must get into company. He must do something, any- thing. Anything but think! Find some- thing to do at once.
He goes to the lift.
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