49 FOR A FULL WEEK: Joachimsthaler, Korrektur, p. 240.
50 ERNST “PUTZI” HANFSTAENGL: Ernst Hanfstaengl, Unheard Witness (New York: J. B. Lippencott, 1957), p. 49.
51 “AT THE TIME, I BECAME”: Friedrich Krohn, Mein Lebenslauf, Institut für Zeitgeschichte Archiv, Munich, undated, ZS 89, p. 5.
52 “FOR HIS PART, SCHELLING”: Dickel, Auferstehung des Abendlandes, p. 269.
52 “AS A SIMPLE MAN”: Tyrell, Vom “Trommler” zum “Führer,” p. 122.
52 “Hitler WAS CERTAINLY”: Ibid., p. 117.
54 “AS BUSINESSMEN, THEIR SONS”: Dickel, Auferstehung des Abendlandes, p. 81.
54 “I ACCUSE THE PARTY”: Jäckel and Kuhn, eds., Hitler: Sämtliche Aufzeichnungen, p. 437.
54 “THE IMMEDIATE SUMMONING”: Maser, Sturm auf die Republik, p. 269.
54 “I LIKE AND VALUE Hitler”: In a letter from Gottfried Grandel to Dietrich Eckart, August 12, 1921.
55 “NO HUMAN BEING”: Maser, Sturm auf die Republik, p. 280; Völkischer Beobachter, August 4, 1921.
55 “DO WE NEED”: Ibid.
55 “MR. OTTO DICKEL FROM”: Jäckel and Kuhn, eds., Hitler: Sämtliche Aufzeichnungen, p. 480.
58 “EGYPTIAN DREAM”: Ibid., p. 532.
58 “PROFESSOR WHOSE DETACHMENT”: Ibid.
58 “ANY DICKEL”: Ibid., p. 460.
58 “WHERE WAS THE PROMISED”: Adolf Hitler: Reden, Schriften, Anordnungen: Februar 1925 bis Januar 1933, ed. Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 5 vols. in 12 parts (Munich: Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1992–98), vol. I, pp. 95–96.
58 DICKEL ALSO HAUNTS: Hitler, Mein Kampf, pp. 35–36.
58 DICKEL ALSO SEEMS: Ibid., p. 356.
58 AND WHEN I FINALLY: Ibid., p. 370.
59 “ACH HERR PROFESSOR”: Hanfstaengl, Unheard Witness, p. 131.
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61 THE ECLECTIC NATURE: In the confiscation report at the archives of the rare book collection in the Library of Congress, written by Hans Beilhack, a German librarian employed by the U.S. Army, contains a detailed account of the rather adventurous confiscation process, including details of the Braille copies of Mein Kampf.
61 “WRITING THEM”: Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn (London: Fontana Press, 1992), p. 65.
62 “WRITERS ARE REALLY”: Ibid.
63 “EVEN IF YOU DECLARE”: Eberhard Jäckel and Axel Kuhn, eds., Hitler: Sämtliche Aufzeichnungen, 1905–1924 (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1980), p. 1216.
64 “ONLY A SINGLE LIGHT BURNED”: In Hans Kallenbach, Mit Adolf Hitler auf Festung Landsberg (Munich: Verlag Kress und Hornung, 1939), p. 106. The Library of Congress has Hitler’s personal copy of Kallenbach’s book, With Adolf Hitler in the Landsberg Fortress: Newly Revised by Fellow Inmate Retired Lieutenant Hans Kallenbach, former Machinegun Unit Leader of the “Assault Unit Adolf Hitler 1923,” with an introduction by Hitler and thirty-seven photographs, some of which are previously unpublished. The book is personally inscribed by Kallenbach—“God protect our Führer!”—and dated October 6, 1939. An accompanying letter describes the origins of the book and Hitler’s personal endorsement of its contents.
64 “A THOROUGH SETTLING”: Jäckel and Kuhn, eds., Hitler: Sämtliche Aufzeichnungen, p. 1233.
65 “MAKE MY HAIR”: Ibid., p. 1270.
65 “HE IS EXPECTING”: Werner Maser, Hitlers Mein Kampf (Munich: Bechtle Verlag, 1966), p. 24.
65 ERNST HANFSTAENGL, WHO: Othmar Plöckinger, Geschichte eines Buches: Adolf Hitlers “Mein Kampf,” 1922–1945 (Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2006), p. 35.
65 “THAT IF A COLLECTOR’S EDITION”: Ibid., p. 37.
66 STAGE-MANAGE THE BANNED: Among the extensive materials on the early history of the Nazi Party in the Third Reich Collection at the Library of Congress is a document with the stamped signature “Rolf Eidhalt.”
66 “HERR Hitler HAS ANNOUNCED”: Jäckel and Kuhn, eds., Hitler: Sämtliche Aufzeichnungen, p. 1241.
66 Hitler REDUCED: See Anna Maria Sigmund, Des Führers bester Freund (Munich: Ullstein, Heyne List, 2003), p. 54.
66 HE ABANDONED HIS: Hess letter, June 29, 1924, in Plöckinger, Geschichte eines Buches, p. 50.
67 “THE CONNECTION TO”: Ibid.
67 “PERSONALLY, I HAVE”: Jäckel and Kuhn, eds., Hitler: Sämtliche Aufzeichnungen, p. 1232.
68 “THE ADMIRATION OF GANDHI”: Ibid., p. 206.
68 “IT IS QUESTIONABLE”: Carl Ludwig Schleich, Die Weisheit der Freude (Berlin: Rowohlt Verlag, 1924), p. 27.
69 “IN THIS BOOK”: Otto Strasser, Hitler und ich (Constance, Ger.: Johannes Asmus Verlag, 1948), p. 78.
69 “THE WALL BESIDE”: “Berlin Hears Ford Is Backing Hitler,” The New York Times, December 20, 1922, p. 2.
69 “I READ IT”: “Documents from the Nuremberg Trials, 1945–1948,” The Avalon Project: Nuremberg Trial Proceedings, vol. 14, p. 367.
70 IN ONE SPEECH: Adolf Hitler: Reden, Schriften, Andornungen: Februar 1925 bis Januar 1933, ed. Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 5 vols. in 12 parts (Munich: Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1992–98), October 18, 1928, vol. III, part 1, p. 163.
70 “THEY SAY THAT”: Ibid., May 2, 1928, vol. II, part 2, p. 828.
70 “EVERY YEAR SEES THEM”: Ibid., February 12, 1926, vol. I, p. 292. This is nearly a verbatim quote from Mein Kampf.
70 “GERMANY IS TODAY”: “Did the Jews Foresee the World War?,” chapter 14 of The International Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem (Dearborn, Mich.: Dearborn Publishing Co., 1920), vol. 1, pp. 153–54.
71 “IT IS COMPLETELY”: Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, trans. Ralph Manheim (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1998), p. 308.
71 “I REGARD FORD AS”: Bill McGraw, “Forced Labor and Ford: History of Nazi Labor Stares Ford in the Face,” Detroit Free Press, December 21, 1999, p. B1.
72 TYPED IN PICA: The Hitler manuscript was subjected to forensic analyses by four independent experts. According to Bernard Haas at the State Office of Criminal Investigation for Baden-Württemberg, the pages were typed in Pica Ra 58. The Haas report, dated January 23, 2007, is available at the Archive for Contemporary History of the Obersalzberg in Berchtesgaden.
72 “IT IS NOT BY”: From the original typescript of Mein Kampf. Photocopy in Archiv zur Zeitgeschichte des Obersalzberg, Berchtesgaden.
74 “I SAW ONE”: Adolf Hitler, Monologe im Führerhauptquartier, stenographed by Heinrich Heim, ed. Werner Jochmann (Hamburg: Albrecht Knaus Verlag), p. 259.
75 “THE PROBLEM FOR ME”: Jäckel and Kuhn, eds., Hitler: Sämtliche Aufzeichnungen, p. 1270.
75 AS MANY AS SEVEN: Werner Maser, Hitler’s Mein Kampf, trans. R. H. Berry (London: Faber & Faber, 1970), p. 23.
75 “YOU CANNOT SAY”: Ernst Hanfstaengl, Unheard Witness (New York: J. B. Lippencott, 1957), p. 134.
76 “WE STRUGGLED FOR WEEKS”: Maser, Hitler’s Mein Kampf, p. 23.
76 ILSE DESCRIBED Hitler’S WRITING: Ibid., pp. 49–51.
76 WHEN HE DISTILLED: Ibid., p. 24.
76 THE FRANKFURTER ZEITUNG: Plöckinger, Geschichte eines Buches, p. 227.
77 “PARTIAL DOUBTS ABOUT”: Ibid., p. 226.
77 ONE CRITIC: Ibid., p. 226.
77 “Sein Krampf”: Ibid., p. 225.
77 “GENERAL LAUGHTER BROKE”: See Otto Strasser, Hitler und ich (Constance, Ger.: Johannes Asmus Verlag, 1948), p. 80.
78 “FOR OLD TIME’S SAKE”: Maser, Hitler’s Mein Kampf, p. 14.
78 EMIL MAURICE RECEIVED: Sigmund, Des Führers bester Freund, p. 73.
78 FOR CHRISTMAS THAT YEAR: Joseph Goebbels, Joseph Goebbels Tagebücher band 1,1924–1929, ed. Ralf Georg Reuth (Munich: Piper Verlag, 1999), December 30, 1925, p. 215.
78 “HERE I WAS REALLY”: Hitler, Monologe, p. 206.
78 “IF AT THE BEGINNING”: Hitler, Mein Kampf, p. 679.
79 AS OTTO BRUCKMANN: Plöckinger, Geschichte eines Buches, p. 160.
80 “I HAVE READ”: Ibid., p. 160.
80 “HE IS ALREADY REFLECTING”: Ibid., p. 159.
81 “IN THE SPRING”: Ibid., p. 160.
82 “WE RUN FORWARD”: Werner Maser, Hitlers Briefe und Notizen: Sein Weltbild in handschriftlichen Dokumenten (Düsseldorf: Econ Verlag, 1973), pp. 92–95.
82 “BUT THIS IS”: Ernst Jünger, Feuer und Blut: Ein kleiner Ausschnitt aus einer groβen Schlacht (Magdeburg: Stahlhelm Verlag, 1925), p. 86.
83 “THE THROTTLING CONCUSSION”: Ibid., p. 107.
84 “THE BATTLE IS”: Ibid., p. 26.
84 “WITH THE ASSISTANCE”: Christa Shröder, Er war mein Chef (Munich: Georg Müller Verlag, 1985), p. 213.
85 AN ACCOMPANYING MEMORANDUM: Initially, “Target No. 589” was reviewed by American intelligence officers and classified as relatively insignificant—“priority three”—then dispatched to the United States with millions of other Nazi documents. The manuscript was discovered by Gerhard Weinberg, a recently minted doctoral student, who immediately recognized its significance. He published it with his mentor Hans Rothfels and a colleague, Martin Broszat, at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Munich in 1961, under the title Hitler’s Second Book. In a subsequent edition, the title had changed to Foreign Policy Position After the Reichstag Election, June–July 1928, to better reflect the content of the manuscript, and to avoid sensationalism and sensitivity on the part of the Germans.
88 “TROSTLOS”: Goebbels, Joseph Goebbels Tagebücher, band 1: 1924–1929, May 21, 1928, pp. 290–91.
88 “WE WILL CONTINUE”: Adolf Hitler: Reden, Schriften, Anordnungen: Februar 1925 bis Januar 1933, ed. Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 5 vols. in 12 parts (Munich: Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1992–98), vol. 2A, p. 847.
88 “ALONE AND ISOLATED”: Adolf Hitler, draft manuscript, Mein Kampf, can be found at the Archiv zur Zeitgeschichte des Obersalzberg, Berchtesgaden.
92 “ICH BIN KEIN SCHRIFTSTELLER”: Maser, Hitler’s Mein Kampf, p. 43.
93 “IF I HAD HAD ANY IDEA”: Ibid., p. 28.
93 “I AM CERTAINLY GLAD”: Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich (New York: Macmillan, 1970), p. 86.
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94 “THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA”: Madison Grant, The Passing of the Great Race; or, the Racial Basis of European History (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1916), p. 83.
94 “THE AMERICAN UNION”: Adolf Hitler: Reden, Schriften, Anordnungen: Februar 1925 bis Januar 1933, ed. Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 5 vols. in 12 parts (Munich: Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1992–1998), vol. 2A, p. xx.
95 “MISTAKEN REGARD FOR”: Grant, The Passing of the Great Race, p. 49.
97 THUS, THE BOOKS: The German scholar Eberhard Jäckel has provided a succinct analysis of the development of Hitler’s worldview in Hitlers Weltanschauung: Entwurf einer Herrschaft (Tübingen: Rainer Wunderlich Verlag, 1969), devoting a chapter to the significance of history in Hitler’s ideological thinking. In a more recent work, Mark Mazower explores the driving forces behind Hitler’s expansionist policies in his book Hitler’s Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe (London: Penguin Books, 2009), illuminating not only the singular aspects of Nazi ideology but also the historical continuities with previous German efforts.
98 “THE MEN WHO”: Grant, The Passing of the Great Race, introduction pp. xx–xxi.
98 “THUS THE VIEW”: Ibid., p. 16.
99 “FROM 525 TO”: Ibid., pp. 254–255.
99 “REFERENCES IN CHINESE”: Ibid., p. 224.
101 “THIS CHANGE OF RACE”: Ibid., p. 184.
101 “FROM A RACE”: Ibid., pp. 230–231.
102 “IN CONCLUDING THIS”: p. 262–263.
103 “BLOOD MIXTURE AND”: Hitler, Mein Kampf, p. 296.
103 “WHAT THE MELTING”: Grant, The Passing of the Great Race, p. 17.
104 “NORTH AMERICA, WHOSE”: Hitler, Mein Kampf, p. 286.
104 “HISTORIANS AND PHILOLOGISTS”: Grant, The Passing of the Great Race, p. 3.
104 ACCORDING TO THE HISTORIAN: Gerhard L. Weinberg, “Hitler’s Image of the United States,” in The American Historical Review 69 (1964): 1006–1021.
105 “WE HAVE NO”: Adolf Hitler: Reden, Schriften, Anordnungen: Februar 1925 bis Januar 1933, ed. Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 5 vols. in 12 parts (Munich: Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1992–1998), vol. 1, p. 92.
105 “DANN KOMMT DIE”: Ibid., p. 92.
105 Hitler WROTE THAT: Hitler, Mein Kampf, p. 388–389.
106 IN DISCUSSING THE: Ibid., p. 396.
106 Hitler’S MOST EXPLICIT: Ibid., p. 439–440.
106 “ON THE BASIS”: Adolf Hitler: Reden, Schriften, Anordnungen: Februar 1925 bis Januar 1933, ed. Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 5 vols. in 12 parts (Munich: Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1992–1998), vol. 2, p. 236.
107 “ACROSS THE CENTURIES”: Ibid., p. 19.
107 “WHEN IT WAS”: Ibid., p. 202.
108 “THESE BIG YOUNG”: Ibid., p. 202.
108 “THE UNITED STATES”: Grant, The Passing of the Great Race, p. 83.
108 “THEY EVENTUALLY COVERED”: Adolf Hitler: Reden, Schriften, Anordnungen: Februar 1925 bis Januar 1933, ed. Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 5 vols. in 12 parts (Munich: Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1992–1998), vol. 2, p. 392.
108 “ECKPFEILER DER WEISSEN”: Ibid., p. 392.
108 “THIS SLOW DENORDIFICATION”: Adolf Hitler: Reden, Schriften, Anordnungen: Februar 1925 bis Januar 1933, ed. Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 5 vols. in 12 parts (Munich: Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1992–1998), vol. 2A, p. 85.
109 “THE CONSEQUENCES OF”: Ibid., p. 85.
109 “IF THIS CIRCUMSTANCE”: Ibid., p. 87.
110 “THE AMERICAN UNION”: Ibid., p. 91.
111 “SINCE THE IMPLEMENTATION”: Gute Gesundheit: Zeitschrift fur allgemeine Gesundheitspflege 37, no. 4 (1934).
111 ACCORDING TO EDWIN BLACK: Edwin Black, War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race (New York/London: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003), p. 259.
112 “I HAVE STUDIED”: Ibid., p. 275–276.
112 Lothrop Stoddard, The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1920).
112 WILLIAM L. SHIRER WAS: William L. Shirer, Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934–1941 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941), p. 257.
112 ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER: Lothrop Stoddard, Into the Darkness: Nazi Germany Today (New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, Inc., 1940), pp. 201–212.
113 “THE RELATIVE EMPHASIS”: Ibid., p. 189.
113 “THE NORDIC IDEAL”: Ibid., p. 189–190.
114 “WHEN WE LOOK”: July 4 speech, Adolf Hitler: Reden, Schriften, Anordnungen: Februar 1925 bis Januar 1933, ed. Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 5 vols. in 12 parts (Munich: Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1992–1998), vol. 2, p. 19.
114 ACCORDING TO WHITNEY: Black, War Against the Weak, p. 259.
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116 “SUFFICE IT TO QUOTE”: Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn (London: Fontana Press, 1992), p. 62.
116 “FOR YEARS, FOR AT LEAST”: Ibid.
116 “SUDDENLY THE EMPHASIS”: Ibid.
117 LARGEST TAX DEDUCTION: Oron James Hale, “Adolf Hitler: Taxpayer,” American Historical Review 60, no. 4 (July 1955): 836.
117 IN MORE RECENT TIMES, TWO SCHOLARS: Philipp Gassert and Daniel S. Mattern, The Hitler Library: A Bibliography (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001).
120 DURING THE WAR: This incident is recounted in Henriette von Schirach, Der Dreis der Herrlichkeit: Erlebte Zeitgeschichte (Munich: Herbig Verlag, 1975), p. 289.
121 THE VOLUME IS DEDICATED: The Library of Congress collection also contains several other books on the 1936 Olympics, including a volume devoted to the Winter Olympics; a book in Hungarian, A Berlini Olimpia; and one for young people, titled The Meaning of the Olympic Games.
121 “FRäULEIN RIEFENSTAHL CAME”: Joseph Goebbels, Joseph Goebbels Tagebücher, band 3: 1935–1939, ed. Ralf Georg Reuth (Munich: Piper Verlag, 1999), November 6, 193
6, p. 1002.
124 “THESE TRAITORS”: Leni Riefenstahl, Memoiren, 1902–1945 (Frankfurt: Ullstein Verlag, 1990), p. 186.
124 “FRäULEIN RIEFENSTAHL, I KNOW”: Ibid., p. 197.
125 “I CAN’T, I CAN’T”: Ibid., p. 198.
125 “I AM SORRY”: Ibid.
125 “HOW ABOUT IF”: Ibid.
125 STEPHEN BACH, AUTHOR OF: See Steven Bach, Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007).
128 THE INVENTORY OF THE REICH CHANCELLERY LIBRARY: This reference is included in a partially preserved inventory list of approximately fifteen hundred books from the Reich Chancellery library. The list was discovered in the ruins of the Reich Chancellery by an American soldier in the spring of 1945. The originals are now in the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Books given to Hitler as gifts are identified with an x in the records.
128 “PHILOSOPHICAL GOD”: Ernst Hanfstaengl, Unheard Witness (New York: J. B. Lippencott, 1957), p. 217.
128 “FROM THAT DAY AT POTSDAM”: Ibid., pp. 217–18.
128 RIEFENSTAHL PROVIDES: Riefenstahl, Memoiren, p. 249.
128 “WHEN A PERSON ‘GIVES’”: Ibid.
128 NIETZSCHE’S POLITICAL LEGACY: Scheiner, Eitelfritz (ed.), / Nietzsches politisches Vermächtnis in Selbstzeugnissen, Berlin: Junker und Dünnhaupt, 1934.
129 “NO, I CAN’T REALLY”: Ibid.
129 “OVERTHROW OF THE”: Adolf Hitler: Reden, Schriften, Andornungen: Februar 1925 bis Januar 1933, ed. Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 5 vols. in 12 parts, (Munich: Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1992–98), vol. III, p. 156.
129 “SPEECHES TO THE GERMAN NATION”: Ibid.
130 “THE TITLE FÜHRER”: Adolf Hitler, Monologe im Führerhauptquartier, stenographed by Heinrich Heim, ed. Werner Jochman (Hamburg: Albrecht Knaus Verlag), p. 174.
130 “TO CUT OFF”: Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Sämmtiche Werke, ed. I. H. Fichte (Berlin: Veit, 1846), vol. I, part 2, p. 293.
131 THE LAWYER’S MISSION: Richard Finger, Die Sendung des Rechtsanwalts, Munich: J. F. Lehmann Verlag, 1930.
131 JUSTICE IN CHAINS: Gottfried Zarnow, Gefesselte Justiz: Politische Bilder aus deutscher Vergangenheit, Munich: J. F. Lehmann Verlag, 1930.
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