Startling Revelations By Journalist, Who Discloses How Nazi Dictator Made His Big Mistake LI the world has come to look on the five men who are most frequently seen or pictured in Hitler's company not only as the confidants of his innermost secrets, but as his close coliaboraters in a sort of Supreme Council of Nazidom which is responsible for the planning and mapping of the Reich's phenomenal moves on the international chessboard, But this popular belief is correct only to the extent that these men—Field Marshal Goering, Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop, the Fuehrer's lieutenant Rudolf Hess, Gestapo Chief Himmler and Propaganda Minister Goebbels—do indeed constitute a super-executive committee. Each member of this committee controls a well-defined department of the intricate Nazi machine. Yet even so, they only carry out the Fuehrer's orders and are responsible to him, They do not make the plans; at best they may be called consultants.
Field Marshal Goering made this quite clear when he told Sir Nevile Henderson, the former British Ambassador to Berlin "When a decision has to be taken, none of us counts, more than the Stones on which we are standing. It is the Fuehrer alone who decides."
The chief of Hitler's brain trust is Gen. Prof. Karl Haushofer, president of the German Academy at Munich. But even the Nazi Who's Who, "Die Junge Kameradschaft," published in Berlin for party members only, speaks of Dr. Baushofer's relationship with the Fuehrer in extremely modest, almost meaningless terms.
In his outward appearance nothing suggests that Dr. -Haushofer is the originator and animator of Herr Hit-many's unbreakable will to power as the outbursts of a man suffering from delusions of grandeur, it must be evident today that Hitler's diplomatic strategy is not the impulsively improvised gesture of a pathological exhibitionist. Everybody realizes today that there is at least some method in the man's madness, although it remains a kind of method incomprehensible to most people outside Germany. It is obvious that Hitler follows a definite plan, and that the persecution of the Jews, the crushing of labour, the muzzling of the press, the destruction of Ger-ler's world-conquering ambitions. He is a quiet, bespectacled, white-haired, unassuming little man who does not look much younger than his seventy years, Nor is there anything that would make the casual passer-by in the Maximilianstrasse of Munich, where Dr. Haushofer strolls each morning, think of this rather scholarly-looking elderly gentleman as a full-fledged General of the Reichs-wear, Yet this slightly stooped, unhurt tied, average-looking man is not merely a general in the German army: his words are supreme law in the General Staff's College of Potsdam. Dr, Haushofer is perhaps the only man who is in almost daily telephonic consultation with the Fuehrer, and one of the very few anonymous week-end guests ler's mountain retreat at Berchte: many's educational institutions and the paganization of Germany's religious life, were preparatory measures for a programme of world-wide scope, It is to Prof. Haushofer's 30 volumes rather than to the Fuehrer's own Mein Kampf" that one must turn for a frank outline of the Nazi world plan and the means to be employed to bring about its realization.
"Not One Word"
For not a word in Hitler's "Mein Kampf" contains his own original thought. This book, which the outside world has come to regard as the Bible of Nazism, is in fact but a kindergarten edition, a poor, verbose and hysterical rehash of Prof, Haus-hoter's thorough and documented lectures and books on diplomatic strategy and economics. garden.
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