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THE CHINA-MAIL, JANUARY 4, 1939.

HITLER'S PATH TO POWER

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According to Reinhold Hanisch, Soviet he was appointed to give an artist tramp who met Hitler in anti-Red political instruction to the the doss-house behind Meidling Bavarian Reichswehr, and also to Station, Hitler and he painted pic- make political inquiries" in the town. tures to fill up and show off the art In other words; a bit of secret police

So much for the work.

The Boy Who Loved His Mother dealers' frames.

and Feared His Father

DOLF Hitler dearly loved his

mother, who spoiled

him.

and

He was

In the trenches he wore her locket. She was 29 when he was born (April 20, 1889), more than 20. years younger than her husband.

Hitler feared his father, the re- tired customs house official, called him "Herr Vater."

(he had a gruff old boy, severe served in the army), opinionated and pompous.

He was the village cobbler's son who had "got on." Hitler's mother was his third wife Altogether he had four sons and

Hitler three daughters. mentions any of them, though his half-sister Angela for years kept house for him in Munich and at Berchtesgaden. Father Hitler was illegitimate, and his name (until he changed it late in life was Schuckl- gruber.

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never

He wanted his son to be an official also.. Young Adolf did not fancy

Hitler's mother, twenty years younger than her husband, spolled the boy

Adolt.

artist's dreams! But as soon as It was thus he attended the meet- Hitler had a few crowns he would ing of the German Workers' Party." sit around arguing politics and There were a handful of them in a "offering to start a new party." back room in a beer hall. The chair- They thought him cracked.

man was the locksmith Anton Drex- and ler. He had the idea of bringing the Once he went to a cinema

Socialist saw a film in which an agitator workers back from, the

on strike. fold to Nationalism, Hitler's own brought the men out Hanisch says he raved about it for idea at this time was summed up days, marvelling at the power of the in his oft-repeated phrase, "There'll spoken word.

be no peace in the land until a body things: is hanging on every lamp-post." Vienna taught him two

Then there was Dietrich Eckhart, (i.) Hatred of the Jews who abound- ed there; (ii) Contempt for potbellied poet and dramatist, who Socialists, democrats, and parlia- wanted a Middle Class Party with a

"Parliament Leader. He contributed mentary politicians,

a great lice, sluggards, highwaymen, rabble, deal of old Germanic myth and ro- wretches, chatterboxes, cheats, witch mance, and also the watchword of doctors, Tom Thumbs and simple- "Germany! Awake!

Gottfred Feder was an engineer tons."

Bamberg. Also inventor. In Mein Kampf Hitler has thanked from God for taking "mother's little dar- Before the war he had invented a ling away from his soft and flinging him into the world of in the River Main and bitter poverty and distress. If sank. He now invented the idea of made me hard,” says Hitler.

dividing capital nito two parts---

cushions concrete ship which was

launched promptly

very

He went to Munich, 1918. There "industrial capital," which was vital he painted postcards and worked for for greasing the wheels of German

and He disputed in beer- industry,

"finance capital," newspapers.

the spending a lifetime filling up forms. What did he become? According halls. He "pursued his studies of which was only for greasing His slapdash, romantic, ambitious, to

read palms of moneylenders. The Chris- himself he worked as de Marxism" (Hitler means he

& lazy nature was in any case utterly corator's man and as a casual la- pamphlets and journals about Mar- tians had the industrial capital the

read Jews the finance capital, a unsuited to any regular occupation. bourer, carrying a hod of bricks, xism, he has certainly never He wished to be a painter.

where he came into violent dispute Marx. an oversight he shares with handy theory for an 'anti-Semite.

Hitler snatched it up. Hitler was a dunce. He conceals with the Socialist workmen. After most Socialists.). it in Mein Kampf by saying that a

He joined the party. He became few years, he says he earmed The war came as a godsend. For

in his No. 7 on the committee. Seven un- he only learned what he liked. The enough to be able to devote himself the first-and only-time

lamp in a beer- truth is that he lacked application. to the more congenial job of draugh- life Hitler accepted discipline cheer- known men round

At last he was a hall going to seize an empire! All His father had to take him away tsman and painter in water colours, fully, eagerly.

ever Germany in 1919 the scene was from school. He died when Hitler The truth is he worked very part of GERMANY!

multiplied ten thousand times. But was 14. full of doubts about his son. casually indes. He shovelled

** * * The

the behind these seven, with a couple of four

Hitler Legend is that years young snow, ate at the soup kitchen,

World ideas not new, was the close interest lounged about the begged even. He lived in a dogs- "Unknown Soldier of the

Then he went house with the dregs of "gay" Vien- War" came back to betrayed, bro- of the strongest single force in the to Vienna but failed to pass the en- na. Hitler hated them. He speaks ken, humiliated Germany, found her Reich-the Reichswehr.

The Reichswehr had sent their trance test at the Academy of Art. with 2 shudder of the "filth, a

Communism, foreign prey to Likewise he failed at the Architec- nauseating dirt, and worse... ver- occupation, Jewish exploitation, that "political officer" out for exactly this tural School. He made for home. minous children. bestial drunken- with a handful of comrades he dedi- purpose to find a civilian

But now his mother died and even ness... of these degraded outcasts." cated himself to the rebirth of his ment that would harness the masses the official's widow's pension ceased. The son of the official felt every country, and that then he set out to the rebuilding of the For Master Hitler it was work at passion of repugnance at being against the Red hordes (who were armed forces. Hitler grasped the He also re- last. "With a trunk full of clothes driven down into a lower class which backed by the Socialist Government situation in a flash.

the and linen, and in my heart an un- millions of Germans were to feel in troops and police) to win the free- solved to create and control breakable will, I travelled to Vienna ten years' time and which he as dom of the streets for the brown- movement-and to go just as far

with the Reichswehr as it suited. again. I wanted to become some- agitator was to exploit, and explode, -shirt battalions.

(Continued on Page 3) body-but at all costs not an as social dynamite undreamed of by official!"

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Only part of the story is true. The German collapse of 1918 put Socialist Government in Berlin ав guardian of the new-formed De- mocratic republic. Almost the first thing it had to do was face an at-. tempted Second, and Red, Revolu- tion by the Spartacist (Communist) workers in Prussia.

Ebert and Noske the Socialist Government leaders, called in the Reichswehr and equipped an ex- officers' artillery corps to smash the rising.

The old army of Potsdam were only too happy to do it.

were

In Bavaria a soviet republic was actually proclaimed in April 1919.. The victorious Reichswehr sent against it. Before they could. arrive the Bavarian Nationalists themselves had wiped it out exacting heavy vengeance for the short-lived Red Terror. A Conservative (Catholic) .Government was then set up in Munich.

By reason of this, and because of her proximity to the Rhineland, where guerilla war was going on between France and Germany, Bavaria quickly became the focus of all the German Nationalist re- sistance. To Munich flocked all the unemployed generals (chief of all, the War Lord Ludendorff), de- mobilised colonels, captains, and later the ex-Servicemen if the Free- Corps and the anti-Bolshevik Rear- guard...

Hither came Hitler, still a serving soldier. After the "clean-up" of the

move-

German

Hiller's father was gruff, pompous, opinionated,