Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris

an old typewriter, and subsequently, after his release, dictated the second volume to a secretary (Maser,
Mein Kampf,
20–21). Given Hitler’s aversion to writing, and the availability of willing hands (including Heß’s) in Landsberg, this seems highly unlikely.
    101 . Otto Strasser,
Hitler und ich,
Constance, 1948, 78.
    102 . Heiden,
Hitler,
206; Hanfstaengl, 15
Jahre,
172–3.
    103 . Hammer, ‘Die deutschen Ausgaben’, 163; Görlitz-Quint, 236–43. Ilse Heß claimed somewhat unpersuasively, after the war, that only she and her husband had been involved in what amounted to purely stylistic amendments to Hitler’s text (Maser,
Mein Kampf,
22–4).
    104 . Hanfstaengl, 15
Jahre,
173–4.
    105 . Frank, 45–6. According to Frank, he said that had he guessed in 1924 that he would become Reich Chancellor, he would not have written the book.
    106 . Heiden,
Hitler,
206; Maser,
Mein Kampf,
24; Oron James Hale, ‘Adolf Hitler: Taxpayer’,
American Historical Review,
60 (1955), 830–42, here 837.
    107 . Hammer, ‘Die deutschen Ausgaben’, 163; Maser,
Mein Kampf,
26–7, 29; [No author given], ‘The Story of Mein Kampf,’
Wiener Library Bulletin,
6 (1952), no.5–6, 31–2, here 31.
    108 . According to Otto Strasser,
Hitler und ich,
60–61, the leading members of the party had privately to admit, during the Nuremberg Rally of 1927, that they had not read the book. See also Karl Lange,
Hitlers unbeachtete Maximen: ‘Mein Kampf und die Öffentlichkeit,
Stuttgart, 1968. Those well acquainted with Hitler from the earliest days of the party, such as Christian Weber, occasionally made fun of the contents of
Mein Kampf (see
Hanfstaengl,
15 Jahre,
188).
    109 . Hitler’s declared gross taxable income largely derived from the sales of
Mein Kampf,
was 19,843 RM in 1925, dipped to 11,494 RM by 1927, was 15,448 RM in 1929, rising sharply the following year to 48,472 RM, then soaring to 1,232,335 RM in 1933. Hitler was delinquent in paying his tax for 1933, but action by the revenue authorities was first delayed, then stopped when he was declared tax exempt. He paid no taxation, therefore, on the vast royalties earned on
Mein Kampf
during the Third Reich (Hale, ‘Adolf Hitler: Taxpayer’, 839–41).
    110 . The outstanding analysis is that of Eberhard Jäckel,
Hitlers Weltanschauung. Entwurf einer Herrschaft,
Tübingen, 1969; extended and revised 4th edn, Stuttgart, 1991.
    111 . See
MK,
317–58.
    112 .
MK,
372 (trans.,
MK
Watt, 308).
    113 .
MK,
358.
    114 . See
MK,
742–3, 750–52. For the development of the
‘Lebensraum’
idea fromits early usage in a programmatic declaration by the Pan-Germans in 1894, see Lange, ‘Der Terminus “Lebensraum”’, 426–37, esp. 428ff.
    115 . See Martin Broszat, ‘Soziale Motivation’, 392–409, here esp. 403.
    116 . A point established, against the current interpretation at that time, as early as 1953 by Hugh Trevor-Roper, ‘The Mind of Adolf Hitler’, his introduction to
Hitler’s Table Talk,
1941–44, London, 1953, vii–xxxv. Trevor-Roper reinforced the argument in his article ‘Hitlers Kriegsziele’,
VfZ,
8 (1960), 121–33. But it was only in the light of Jäckel’s masterly analysis of
Mein Kampf,
in his book
Hitlers Weltanschauung,
in 1969 that Hitler’s ideas became generally accepted as inherently cohesive as well as consistent.
    117 . Frank, 45. Subsequent editions of
Mein Kampf
down to 1939 nevertheless contained, in all, around 2,500 largely minor stylistic corrections (Hammer, 164; Maser,
Hitler,
188).
    118 . See Jäckel,
Hitlers Weltanschauung,
esp. 152–8.
    119 . The linking role of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund in the continuity of extreme antisemitic ideas between the Pan-Germans and the Nazis is excellently brought out in Lohalm,
Völkischer Radikalismus.
    120 .
JK
, 176–7.
    121 .
MK
, 372 (trans.,
MK
Watt, 307).
    122 .
MK
, 772 (trans.,
ΜK
Watt, 620).
    123 . As implied in the title of the important analysis of Nazi anti-Jewish policy by Karl A. Schleunes,
The Twisted Road to Auschwitz. Nazi Policy toward German Jews 1933–1939,
Urbana/Chicago/London, 1970.
    124 .
JK,
646.
    125 .
JK,
703–4.
    126 .
JK,
I2I0.
    127 .
JK,
1226.
    128 .
JK,
1242 and n.2–3.
    129 . Wolfgang Horn, ‘Ein unbekannter Aufsatz Hitlers aus dem Frühjahr 1924’,
VfZ,
16 (1968), 287, 288. For the conventionality of Hitler’s Pan-German notion of foreign policy in the early 1920s, see Günter Schubert,
Anfänge nationalsozialistischer Außenpolitik,
Köln,