Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris

Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
203; Hanfstaengl, 15
Jahre,
154; Heiden,
Hitler,
175; Tyrell,
Trommler,
277 n.178;
Hitler-Prozeß,
XXX-XXXI; and see Gordon, 477. Prison psychologist Ott also claimed to have calmed Hitler down in the course of several hours of discussion, and to have persuaded him to break off his hunger-strike (Gritschneder,
Bewährungsfrist,
35).
    298 . Cit. Gritschneder,
Bewährungsfrist,
37–42, from Ehard’s private papers.
    299 . Cit. Gritschneder,
Bewährungsfrist,
43.
    300 .Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
Z03; Gordon, 455, 476. Gritschneder,
Bewährungsfrist,
49–52, clearly outlines the legal position: under Article 13 of the Law for the Protection of the Republic of 21 July 1922, the ‘Staatsgerichtshof’ (State Court) placed under the aegis of the Reichsgericht (Reich Court) at Leipzig had competence to try cases of alleged high treason. However, the Bavarian government had refused to concede its judicial authority and had passed three days later a decree establishing People’s Courts
(Volksgerichte)
for treason cases in Bavaria. Under the Reich Constitution of 1919, Reich law was superior to laws passed by individual states. Despite this, Bavaria refused to comply with the order of the Staatsgerichtshof in Leipzig, immediately following the putsch, to arrest Hitler, Göring and Ludendorff with a view to opening preliminary hearings against them. The only obvious way of overriding the Bavarian government in practice would have been through the use of force, which the Reich government was anxious to avoid. The complex and sensitive relations between the Reich and Bavaria at precisely this juncture, and the readiness of the Reich cabinet to concede – after pressure from the Bavarian Justice Minister Gürtner – that the trial should be held in Munich, are fully explored by Bernd Steger, ‘Der Hitlerprozeß und Bayerns Verhältnis zum Reich 1923/24’,
VfZ,
25 (1977), 441–66, here esp. 442–9, 455·
    301 . Gordon, 476.
    302 . Hanfstaengl, 15
Jahre,
156; and see Heiden,
Hitler, 176–7.
    303 . Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
203–4.
    304 . Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
215; Gordon, 480.
    305 . Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
205–6, cit. Hans von Hülsen.
    306 . Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
215–16, 217–20.
    307 . Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
225.
    308 .
Monologe,
260 (3–4 February 1942) and 453 n.168.
    309 . Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
227.
    310 . Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
227–8.
    311 . Gritschneder,
Bewährungsfrist,
22, 48–54; and
Hitler-Prozeß,
esp. XXX–XXXVII.
    312 . Gritschneder,
Bewährungsfrist,
58–60.
    313 . Laurence Rees,
The Nazis. A Warning from History,
London, 1997, 30. In this earlier trial, Judge Neithardt had sought an even more lenient punishment – a fine, instead of imprisonment – than the mild sentence actually imposed.
    314 . Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
234–6; Tyrell,
Trommler,
277 n.180; Heiden,
Hitler,
184–5; Hanfstaengl, 15
Jahre,
156–7; Gritschneder,
Bewährungsfrist,
98. And see Hermann Fobke’s description of lazy days in Landsberg, in Werner Jochmann (ed.),
Nationalsozialismus und Revolution,
Frankfurt am Main, 1963, 91–2.
    315 . Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
232.
    316 .
MK,
603–8, 619–20; Longerich,
Die braunen Bataillone,
47.
    317 . See Tyrell, ‘Wie er der “Führer” wurde’, 34–5.
    318 .
JK,
1188.
    319 .
JK,
1210.
    320 .
JK,
1212. ‘There is a single person who seems fit to have the German army lower its weapons to him and to bring about in peacetime what we need.’ (‘Es
gibt einen einzigen, der in meinen Augen befähigt erscheint, daß das deutsche Heer die Waffen senkt vor ihm und daß im Frieden das erfolgt, was wir brauchen.’)
    321 . Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
188 (23 October 1923).
    322 .
JK,
1056–7.

CHAPTER 7 : EMERGENCE OF THE LEADER
    1 . Georg Schott,
Das Volksbuch vom Hitler,
Munich, 1924, 18, 229.
    2 .
MK,
362.
    3 . See Horn,
Marsch,
174–5.
    4 . Horn,
Marsch,
172 and n.56; Franz-Willing,
Putsch,
193; David Jablonsky,
The Nazi Party in Dissolution. Hitler and the Verbotzeit 1923–25,
London, 1989, 43 and 189 n.99.
    5 . For biographical sketches, see Fest,
Face of the Third Reich,
247–64; and Smelser/Zitelmann, 223–35.
    6 . Alfred Rosenberg,
Letzte Aufzeichnungen. Ideale und Idole der nationalsozialistischen Revolution,
Göttingen, 1948, 107.
    7 . Bullock,
Hitler,
122.
    8 . See Horn,
Marsch,
172.
    9 . Jablonsky, 44.
    10 . Horn,
Marsch,
173–5.
    11 . Jablonsky, 50.
    12 . Jablonsky, 46–7; Albrecht Tyrell,
Führer befiehl… Selbstzeugnisse aus der ‘Kampfzeit’ der NSDAP,
Düsseldorf,