Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris

its prehistory, and its symbolism for Hitler’s rule, see Ernst Hanisch,
Der Obersalzberg: das Kehlsteinhaus und Adolf Hitler,
Berchtesgaden, 1995.
    168 . Heiden,
Hitler,
207–8.
    169 .
Monologe,
206;
TBJG, I.1
, 195–7(23–4July 1926).
    170 .
TBJG, I.1
, 194–7(18–26 July 1926), quotations, 196, 197.
    171 . This is presumably one of the two meetings Hitler addressed in Berchtesgaden on 9 and 13 October 1926
(RSA,
II/1, 71). Mimi’s mother had died on 11 September. Hitler and Mimi must have met around the end of September or beginning of October.
    172 . Günter Peis, ‘Hitlers unbekannte Geliebte’,
Der Stern,
13 July 1959; see alsoMaser,
Hitler,
312–13, 320–21; Ronald Hayman,
Hitler and Geli,
London, 1997, 93–6; Nerin E. Gun,
Eva Braun – Hitler. Leben und Schicksal,
Velbert/Kettwig, 1968, 62–4.
    173 . Knopp, 135, and see also 143–4. The source of Hitler’s letter is not given.
    174 .
RSA,
I, 297 n.1–2(text of the speech, 297–330). Hitler was allowed to speak, despite the still prevailing ban, because it was a closed society.
    175 . Falter
et al., Wahlen,
70; Edgar Feuchtwanger,
From Weimar to Hitler. Germany, 1918–33,
2nd edn, London, 1995, 191.
    176 .
RSA,
I, 318.
    177 . Above quotations,
RSA,
I, 323.
    178 .
RSA,
I, 324.
    179 .
RSA,
I, 325.
    180 .
RSA,
I, 315.
    181 .
RSA,
I, 320.
    182 .
RSA,
I, 330.
    183 . See, for a few of many examples:
RSA,
I, 362 (‘international Jewish stock-exchange and finance capital, supported by Marxist-democratic backers within’);
RSA,
1,457 (mission to defend the German people against ‘the Jewish international bloodsuckers’);
RSA,
I, 476 (‘the profit landed in the pockets of the Jews’);
RSA,
II/1, 62 (‘the possibility of a German resurrection only in the annihilation of Marxism’, which could not be achieved without ‘a solution of the race problem’);
RSA,
II/1, 105–6(Hitler claiming to complete Christ’s ‘struggle against the Jew as the enemy of mankind’);
RSA,
II/1, 110 (the need for struggle against policies which ‘hand over our people to the international stock-exchange and raise Jewish world capitalism to the unrestrained ruler of our Fatherland’ and struggle against ‘the Jewish plague of our press and newspaper poisoning’);
RSA,
II/1, 119 (‘the international world-Jew is master in Germany’).
    184 . E.g.
RSA,
II/2, 567, 742, 848, 858.
    185 .
RSA,
II/1, 158. See also
RSA,
I, 20.
    186 . He appears to have used the term
‘Lebensraum’
on only one occasion, 30 March 1928 (
RSA,
II/2, 761).
    187 .
RSA,
I, 240–41.
    188 .
RSA,
I, 295.
    189 .
RSA,
II/I, 17–25, esp. 19–21.
    190 . MK, 726–58.
    191 .
RSA,
II/2, 552.
    192 . R5A, I, 137.
    193 .
RSA,
I, 25.
    194 .
RSA,
I, 100.
    195 .
RSA,
I, 102, II/1, 408.
    196 . E.g.,
RSA,
I, 37, 472.
    197 .
RSA,
I, 426.
    198 .
TBJG,
I.1, 172 (13 April 1926), 196 (23 July 1926).
    199 .That Hitler held to a more or less coherent social revolutionary programme and consciously aimed to modernize German society has been consistently advanced by Rainer Zitelmann in his studies, notably:
Hitler. Selbstverständnis eines Revolutionärs,
Hamburg/Leamington Spa/New York, 1987;
Adolf Hitler,
Göttingen/Zürich, 1989; and ‘Die totalitäre Seite der Moderne’, in Michael Prinz and Rainer Zitelmann (eds.),
Nationalsozialismus und Modernisierung,
Darmstadt, 1991, 1–20, here esp. 12f
    200 .
RSA, l ,
62.
    201 .
RSA,
II/2, 674.
    202 . Weinberg (ed.),
Hitlers Zweites Buch.
His dictation of the book can be dated to the last weeks of June and the first week of July 1928 (
RSA,
IIA, XIX). Gerhard Weinberg’s introduction to the new edition of the work
(RSA,
HA) – now given the descriptively accurate if less pithy designation ‘Außenpolitische Standortsbestimmung nach der Reichstagswahl’ (Foreign Policy Position after the Reichstag Election) – authoritatively explains the background, timing, and content of the tract. See also
Hitlers Zweites Buch,
7, 20;
RSA,
III/1, xi. For an analysis of the content, see Martin Broszat, ‘Betrachtungen zu “Hitlers Zweitem Buch”’,
V fz,
9 (1961), 417–29.
    203 .
Hitlers Zweites Buch,
21–6;
RSA,
IIA, 1–3.
    204 .
Hitlers Zweites Buch,
21–2;
RSA,
I, 269–93;
MK,
684–725 (with minor stylistic alterations).
    205 .
Hitlers Zweites Buch,
23;
RSA,
IIA, XVI. The introduction in early 1928 of the Italian language for religious instruction in South Tyrol had prompted the revival of agitation.
    206 .
Hitlers Zweites Buch,
36. Sales of
Mein Kampf
totalled