Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris

regions settled down. (See Hüttenberger,
Gauleiter,
221–4; and Wolfgang Benz, Hermann Grami and Herman Weiß (eds.),
Enzyklopädie des Nationalsozialismus,
Stuttgart, 1997, 478–9.) Hitler’s chieftains in these areas were his vital props in extending and supporting his leadership in the provinces.
    95 . Jochmann,
Nationalsozialismus und Revolution,
221. The plebiscite proposal was to fail, on 20 June, to acquire the necessary majority
(RSA,
I, 296 n.4, 451 n.26).
    96 . Jochmann,
Nationalsozialismus und Revolution,
220; Tyrell, ‘Feder’, 69–70 and 85 n.105;
RSA,
I, 294 n.1.
    97 . Orlow, i.68–9; Nyomarkay, 83–4 and n.45.
    98 . Tyrell, ‘Feder’, 70.
    99 .
TBJG, I.1
, 161 (15 February 1926). Goebbels went on (161–2) to refer to a half hour’s discussion after a speech of four hours. According to the police report, the speech lasted five hours
(RSA,
I, 294 n.1).
    100 .
VB
report in
RSA,
I, 294–6. See also HStA, MA 101235/II, Pd. Mü., LB, 8 March 1926, S.16.
    101 . The ‘sic!’ is in the original
(TBJG, I.1
, 161).
    102 . Though a member of the Working Community, Ley – described by Fobke in his report on the Community’s first meeting as ‘intellectually a nonentity’ – had distinguished himself as an ‘unconditional supporter of the person of Hitler’ (Jochmann,
Nationalsozialismus und Revolution,
209).
    103 .
TBJG, I.1
, 161–2. Goebbels was reported to have stated, following the Bamberg Meeting: ‘Adolf Hitler betrayed socialism in 1923’ (Tyrell,
Führer,
128). On the Bamberg meeting (if inaccurate in detail) see also Krebs, 187–8.
    104 . Jochmann,
Nationalsozialismus und Revolution,
225; Kühnl, 323.
    105 . Horn,
Marsch,
243 and n.119; Noakes,
Nazi Party,
83.
    106 .Orlow, i.72. He must have had reservations. When Goebbels was in Munich in April, he and Kaufmann were strongly criticized by Hitler for their part in the Working Community and the Gau Ruhr (
TBJG,
I.1, 172 (13 April 1926)).
    107 . Stachura,
Strasser,
50.
    108 . Horn,
Marsch,
243; Longerich,
Die braunen Bataillone,
53.
    109 . See Horn,
Marsch,
242 n. 117; Orlow, i.72; Nyomarkay, 88. Goebbels had to respond publicly to ‘Damascus’ allegations (
TBJG,
I.1, 204 (25 August 1926)).
    110 .
TBJG,
I.1, 134–5(14 October 1925).
    111 .
TBJG,
I.1, 141 (6 November 1925), 143 (23 November 1925).
    112 . Nyomarkay, 87.
    113 .
TBJG,
I.1, 167 (21 March 1926): ‘Julius is at least honest,’ he wrote. Strasser advised caution (Noakes,
Nazi Party,
82).
    114 .
TBJG,
I.1, 169 (29 March 1926).
    115 .
TBJG,
I.1, 171 (13 April 1926)
    116 . Tyrell,
Führer,
129;
TBJG, I.1
, 171–2(13 April 1926). Goebbels gives no indication in his diary of the content of the speech. From Pfeffer’s remarks to Kaufmann, that, having previously thought his and Goebbels’s views on socialism went too far, he was almost persuaded to advocate socialism on the basis of the latter’s speech, it can be presumed that Goebbels watered down his early views considerably for consumption for his Munich audience.
    117 .
TBJG,
I.1, 172–3(13 April 1926).
    118 .
TBJG,
I.1, 175 (19 April 1926).
    119 . Horn,
Marsch,
247. Martin Broszat, ‘Die Anfänge der Berliner NSDAP, 1926/27’,
VfZ,
8 (1960), 88ff; Hüttenberger,
Gauleiter, 39 ff .
    120 .
TBJG,
I.1, 244 (13 July 1928).
    121 . Hanfstaengl, 15
Jahre,
190.
    122 . Tyrell,
Führer,
103.
    123 .
RSA,
I, 430; the police report spoke of around 2,500 members present (
RSA,
430 n.18).
    124 .
RSA,
I, 431.
    125 .
RSA,
I, 437.
    126 .
RSA,
I, 430.
    127 .
RSA,
I,461–5; Tyrell,
Führer,
104, 136–41, 216; Horn,
Marsch,
278–9; Orlow, i.72–3.
    128 .
RSA,
I, 461; and see Noakes,
Nazi Party,
83 n.1.
    129 . RSA, II/1, 6–12 (quotations, 6, 7).
    130 .
RSA,
II/1, 15 n.1. The violence and thuggery of those attending led to a protest resolution of the Weimar town council and heated debate in the Thuringian Landtag. It also brought much welcome publicity for the NSDAP (
RSA,
II/1, 17 n.3).
    131 . It was subordinated, until 1934, to the SA. At the time of the Weimar Party Rally of 1926, it was no more than about 200 strong. (See Heinz Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head,
London, 1969, 17–23.)
    132 .
RSA,
II/1, 16 and n.5.
    133 .Orlow, i.76; text of the speech,
RSA,
II/1, 17–25. Dinter had used his influence to obtain the National Theatre for the party congress (Tyrell,
Führer,
149).
    134 .
TBJG,
I.1, 191 (6 July 1926).
    135 . Orlow, i.76. The party had an estimated 35,000 members at this time. Membership in many