Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris

won fourteen of the ninety-six seats in the Saxon Landtag.
    38 .
TBJG,
I.1, 577–82 (18–29 July 1930).
    39 . Nyomarkay, 98 n.67; Tyrell,
Führer,
312. With Gregor Strasser so heavily committed as Organization Leader of the NSDAP, Otto had become the effective head of the publishing house.
    40 . Tyrell,
Führer,
312–13; Nyomarkay, 96–8.
    41 .
TBJG,
I.1, 492–3(30–31 January 1930), 496–503 (6–22 February 1930). See also Lemmons, 44–7; Reuth, 163–5.
    42 .
TBJG,
I.1, 492 (31 January 1930).
    43 .See Reuth, 164–5 and
Tb
Reuth, ii.451 n.14 for the suggestion that this was possibly because of the prospect of spring elections, given the crisis of the government.
    44 .
TBJG
, I.1, 507 (2 March 1930). On the death of Wessel, see Thomas Oertel,
Horst Wessel. Untersuchung einer Legende,
Cologne, 1988, esp. 83–105. For Goebbels’s irritation at Hitler’s refusal to attend Horst Wessel’s funeral, on 1 March, see
ΤΒJG
, l.1, 507 (1–2 March 1930); see also Reuth, 161. Hitler was dissuaded by Göring, despite Goebbels’s pleas, from attending the funeral because of the tension and threat of violence (Hanfstaengl, 15
Jahre,
204). Despite heavy police cordons, there were indeed disturbances between Communists and Nazis leading to a number of serious injuries (Oertel, 101–3;
TBJG, I.1,
507–8 (1–2 March 1930)). The ‘Horst-Wessel-Lied’ became, under Goebbels’s influence (though he privately thought little of its musical qualities) the party’s own anthem and, especially after 1933, was frequently sung on major representative occasions after ‘Deutschland, Deutschland über alles’, the national anthem. Horst Wessel had provided only the text of the tune associated with him; the melody derived from an old army song (Oertel, 106–13).
    45 .
TBJG, I.1,
507 (2 March 1930), 515 (16 March 1930).
    46 .
TBJG, I.1,
515 (16 March 1930).
    47 .
TBJG, I.1,
524 (5 April 1930).
    48 .
TBJG, I.1,
528 (13 April 1930).
    49 .
TBJG, I.1,
538 (28 April 1930);
RSA,
III/3, 168–9; Tyrell,
Führer,
331–2.
    50 .
TBJG, I.1,
538 (28 April 1930).
    51 . Strasser,
Hitler und ich , 101 .
    52 . Strasser,
Hitler und ich,
105–6. The discussions are summarized by Patrick Moreau,
Nationalsozialismus von links,
Stuttgart, 1984, 30–35.
    53 . Strasser,
Hitler und ich,
106.
    54 . Strasser,
Hitler und ich,
104–7. An earlier version, which can be taken as authentic, since it was based on notes made at the time and was not disclaimed by the Nazis, was published by Strasser, in the form of a polemical pamphlet, immediately following the meeting: Otto Strasser,
Ministersessel oder Revolution?,
Berlin, 1930. See Moreau, 205, n.48. The pamphlet contained Otto Strasser’s version of his dialogue with Hitler in May, which later served as the basis of his book
Hitler und ich.
Hitler’s comments on socialism were similar to those he had made at the meeting of party leaders in Munich on 27 April (
RSA
, III/3, 168 n.4). At his meeting with Otto Strasser, there were also serious disagreements about foreign policy, on which Hitler upheld the notion of an alliance with Britain (Otto Strasser,
Hitler und ich,
108–9; Nyomarkay, 99). See Gregor Strasser’s comments – critical of his brother and of his ‘One-sided’ account of the meeting – in his letter to the Sudeten leader Rudolf Jung of 22 July 1930 (Tyrell,
Führer,
332–3).
    55 . Strasser,
Hitler und ich,
104. The diffuseness of the party’s programme meant that total subordination to the Leader was the only device to prevent fragmentation. As Baldur von Schirach pointed out, with reference to this period, ‘practically every leading National Socialist had his own National Socialism’ (B. v. Schirach, 87).
    56 . Strasser,
Hitler und ich,
107.
    57 .Strasser,
Hitler und ich,
112–14.
    58 .
TBJG , I.1 ,
550 (22 May 1930).
    59 . Tyrell,
Führer,
333.
    60 .
TBJG, I
.1, 561 (14 June 1930).
    61 .
TBJG, I.1,
568 (30 June 1930); Otto Strasser’s published account was in his pamphlet,
Ministersessel oder Revolution?
    62 .
TBJG, I.1,
564 (23 June 1930).
    63 .
TBJG, I.1,
565–6 (26 June 1930).
    64 .
TBJG, I.1,
567 (29 June 1930). Goebbels wanted Hitler to attend a meeting of the membership of Gau Berlin at which he planned a showdown with his enemies. (See Reuth, 167–8;
Tb
Reuth, ii.493 n.54.)
    65 .
RSA,
III/3, 250 n.15.
    66 .
TBJG, I.1,
568 (30 June 1930).
    67 .
RSA,
III/3, 249–50;
TBJG, I.1,
568 (1 July 1930);
Tb
Reuth, ii.493 n.54·
    68 .
RSA
, ΠΙ/3, 264 n.4; Moreau, 41,