Mein Kampf: The Stalag Edition by Adolf Hitler

Author:Adolf Hitler [Hitler, Adolf]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ostara Publications
Published: 2014-01-27T00:00:00+00:00

VOLUME TWO The National Socialist Movement

CHAPTER 1: WELTANSCHAUUNG AND PARTY

On February 24th 1920, the first great mass meeting under the auspices of, the new movement took place. In the Hofbräuhaus-Festsaal in Munich the twenty-five theses which constituted the programme of our new Party were expounded to an audience of nearly two thousand people and each thesis was enthusiastically received.

Thus we brought to the knowledge of the public the first principles and lines of action along which was to be conducted the new struggle for the abolition of a confused mass of obsolete ideas and opinions which had obscure and often pernicious tendencies.

A new force was to make its appearance among the timid and cowardly bourgeoisie. This force was destined to impede the triumphant advance of the Marxists and bring the chariot of Fate to a standstill just as it seemed about to reach its goal.

It was evident that this new movement could gain the public significance and support which are necessary prerequisites in such a gigantic struggle only if it succeeded from the very outset in awakening a sacred conviction in the hearts of its followers.

It was not a case of introducing a new electoral-slogan into the political field, but that an entirely new Weltanschauung of radical significance had to be established. One must try to recall from what a feeble jumble of opinions the so-called party programmes are usually ‘cooked’ and brushed up or remodelled from time to time.

If we want to gain an insight into these programmatic monstrosities we must carefully investigate the motives which inspire the average bourgeois ‘programme committee.’

They are always influenced by one and the same preoccupation when they introduce something new into their programme or modify something already contained in it, namely, the results of the next election.

The moment these artists in parliamentary government have the first glimmering of a suspicion that their beloved public may be ready to kick up its heels and escape from the harness of the old party wagon they begin to paint the shafts in new colours.

On such occasions the party astrologists and horoscope readers, the so-called ‘shrewd and experienced men,’ come forward. For the most part they are old parliamentary hands whose political schooling has furnished them with ample experience.

They can remember former occasions when the masses showed signs of losing patience and they now sense the imminence of a similar situation.

Resorting to their old prescription, they form a ‘committee.’ They go around among their beloved public and listen to what is being said. They carefully digest newspaper articles and gradually begin to sense what the broad masses really want, what they abhor and what they hope for.

Every section of the working community and every class of employee is carefully studied and their secret wishes weighed and considered.

Even the malicious slogans of a dangerous opposition are now suddenly looked upon as worthy of consideration, and to the astonishment of those who originally coined and circulated them, appear innocently and as a matter of course in the official vocabulary of the older parties.

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