Hitler: Memoirs of a Confidant

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Editor’s Introduction 1 Wagener Is an Honored Guest at the 1929 Party Congress—His First Conversation with Hitler—His Appointment as SA Chief of Staff 2 Pfeffer Enlightens Wagener about Hitler’s Special Position in the Party—Hitler Discourses on Learning and Democracy 3 Hitler Shows Concern for Ailing Nazis and Gives His Views on Individualism and Socialism 4 Tensions between the SA and the SS—Hitler Deciphers a Map 5 Hitler Discourses on the Rise and Decline of Monarchy—He Gloats over a Hohenzollern Mismarriage 6 Hitler Explains His Decision to Dismiss Pfeffer and Head the SA Himself—Wagener Wonders about Hitler’s Concept of Political Necessity 7 Hitler’s Private Life—His Relationship with His Niece Geli Raubal—His Renunciation of Marriage and Children—He Adopts the Theory of Odic Force 8 The Economic Policy Conferences Begin—Wagener Presents His Plans for a “Social Economy”—Hitler Senses the Philosopher’s Stone in His Hand 9 An Emissary from Warsaw Calls at Nazi Headquarters—Hitler’s Views on Central Europe, the East, and Alliance with England 10 Strasser’s Plans—Hitler on the Limitations of Organization and the Need for a Spiritual Revival of the Nation 11 Wagener Fails to Gain a General as SA Chief of Staff—Hitler’s Views on Destiny, Jews, and Parasitism 12 Hitler’s Reading of Newspapers—His Views on a Jewish State and “Social Economy” 13 Hitler Survives an Automobile Accident—His Thoughts on the Universe, Ice Ages, and the Swastika—“Twenty Millennia of Nordic History” 14 How to Influence Hitler—Discussion of the “Jewish Question,” Russia, and England 15 An Encounter with Julius Streicher—Hitler Refuses to Travel Abroad—Continuation of the Economic Policy Conferences 16 Wagener Retroactively Becomes a Party Comrade—Hitler on Democracy and the Leadership Principle—His Use of Reasoned Arguments 17 Hitler Recalls the Beer Hall Putsch—His Choice of Rohm as SA Chief of Staff—His Views on Homosexuality—His Political Prescription: “Do Nothing” 18 Wagener’s Agrarian Program—Hitler: “Remember Faust”— Himmler’s Reservations 19 Wagener Launches the WPD—Hitler between “Socialism” and Social Darwinism 20 Goring in Toga and Turkish Slippers—His Claim to Funds from Ruhr Industry 21 Hitler’s Weakness at the Hands of Intriguers—His Relationship with Goring—Hitler: Social Reorganization Must Await the Takeover of Full State Power 22 Hitler’s Finances—He Defends Goring—Henriette Hoffmann as “Ballerina to the King”—Approaches to Italy 23 Hitler on Christ and Socialism, Intellect, Knowledge, and Ability 24 Hitler on Birth Control, Abortion, Compulsory Sterilization— “Unviable” Infants—Individualism’s Death through Industrialization—Its Rebirth through “Our Socialism” 25 Hitler’s Thought Processes—Einstein’s Theories Confirm His Views on Intuition—Inspiration as the Tool of Providence 26 Hitler Compares the Zeiss Works to England—“England Needs a Sword on the Continent” 27 Hitler Condemns “Excessive Industrialization” and “Americanization”—A Central European Economic Bloc as Core of a Greater European Union—The Ukraine as Indispensable Supplement—Hitler Does Not Let Facts “Overpower” Him 28 Hitler’s Foreign-Policy Credo—Smashing Bolshevism at Its Center of Power—One Europe from Gibraltar to the Caucasus— The American Peril 29 Hitler’s Reticence and Aversion to Decision Making—His Power of Suggestion—Goring, Himmler, and Goebbels as Corrupters of His Intentions—His Tantrums—How He Reacted to a Practical Joke 30 Hitler on the Goals of Zionism—He Is Instructed on War as a Losing Business Proposition 31 “Export Mania” as the Cause of the World War—Plans for Creatingjobs—Prerequisites: Faith, Love, and Hope—A Financing Scheme—Hitler Insists on Secrecy 32 Hitler Finds a Key to Saxon Politics in Tribal Migrations—His Views on Racial Theories—Jews as the Only “Pure” People 33 Hitler Explains the German Parties—Christ as Harbinger of the Community of the Volk—Racial Theory as “Poison” for the General Public—Educating the Young for Selective Breeding 34 Hitler Draws a Lesson from Rienzi—He Favors a Mass Party over an “Order”—His Principal Targets: German People’s Party and Economic Party 35 The Death of Geli Raubal—Hitler on Marriage, God, and Industrialism—He Turns Vegetarian 36 Hitler’s Views on Arabs and Englishmen—Gaining a “Free Hand” in the East through Concessions to England 37 Hitler Worries about the Danger of a Putsch from the Right and Rebellion from the Left—Funk as Intermediary with Business— First Stay at the Kaiserhof Hotel—Millions Subscribed in Event of Civil War 38 Harald Quandt Reports to His Fuhrer—His Mother’s Effect on Hitler—A Midnight Encounter between Goebbels and the “Chauffeureska” at Frau Quandt’s—Hitler Is Shocked 39 Hitler’s Plans for Career Military Officers—His Views on the Efficacy of War and the Effect of a Surprise Fait Accompli 40 Hitler’s Plan for a Rapid Subway Connection between Hamburg and Berlin—His Views on Architecture and Art—He Rejects Spengler’s Decline of the West 41 Funk’s Understanding of National Socialism—His Subsidization bv Ruhr Industry—Wagener as Marriage Broker for Goebbels 42 Hitler Rejects Othmar Spann’s Corporate State—He Considers Schacht as Reichsbank President—Wagener Opposes Hitler’s Berlin Advisers—The “Hitler Problem” 43 Strasser Explains Funk’s Strong Position and Hitler’s Faith in Authorities—His Conjecture concerning Hitler’s Use of Stimulants 44 Hitler Resolves to Create a Party Senate—He Abandons That Resolve—He Regrets Having Published Mein Kampf 45 Hitler on Education and Race—He Denounces Nordic Cultists— Tasks of the Hitler Youth 46 Hitler on Family and School in a “Socialist Democracy”—His Plans for National Political Training Schools 47 Hitler: Separate Boys from Their Mothers and Let Them Fight with Each Other—Government Scholarships and Communal Residences for University Students 48 Crosscurrents in Nazi Economic Policy—Hitler Worries about the Power of Big Business—He Wants His “Socialist” Program Put Aside ’til Long after Taking Power 49 Admiral von Levetzow Advises Hitler on Naval Strategy and England—Hitler Holds to a Continental Policy and an Anglo- German “Fraternal Pact” 50 Hitler on Modern Painting—A Return to True Art through Propaganda—Artists Should “Hunger Their Way to the Top”— Traditional Art as the True Soul of the Volk 51 “Earth-Electricity” as the Source of Life—Hitler’s Conception of the Origin of Religion—Slave Insurrections against Oppressors 52 Wagener as Mediator between Hitler and Schleicher—Hitler’s Plan for Forming a Cabinet—Wagener Steps Down as Head of the Economic Policy Section—Hitler: “Become the Guardian of the Grail” Appendix: Reference Aid Index