Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris

in the
Daily Mail
on 24 September 1930 and in German the following day in the VB.
    135 .
RSA,
III/3, 452 n.2, cit.
Daily Mail,
27 September 1930.
    136 . E.g.,
RSA,
III/3, 177 (2 May 1930), 320 (10 August 1930), 338 (15 August 1930), 359 (20 August 1930).
    137 . Reconstruction of his speech in
RSA,
III/3, 434–51; Peter Bucher,
Der Reichswehrprozeß. Der Hochverrat der Ulmer Reichswehroffiziere 1929–30,
Boppard am Rhein, 1967, 237–80; and see Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
328–36; Frank, 83–6. For personal details of those indicted, see
RSA,
III/3, 450 n.86.
    138 . RSA, III/3, 439.
    139 .
RSA,
III/3, 441.
    140 .
RSA,
III/3, 441.
    141 .
RSA,
III/3, 442.
    142 .
RSA,
III/3, 445. Hitler made plain that, for him, the state was merely a means to an end (Bucher, 275).
    143 . Bucher, 296–8.
    144 . Richard Scheringer,
Das große Los. Unter Soldaten, Bauern und Rebellen,
Hamburg, 1959, 236. Scheringer later became a Communist supporter.
    145 .
TBJG, I.1, 608
(26 September 1930).
    146 . Hanfstaengl, 15
Jahre,
213–16. In fact, during the Depression even luxury suites at the Kaiserhof dropped sharply in price. A surviving bill shows the cost of Hitler and his entourage for a stay of three days in 1931, including meals and service, at a modest 650.86 Reich Marks (Turner,
German Big Business,
155).
    147 . Frank, 86.
    148 . Goebbels thought the Leipzig trial had won ‘enormous sympathy’ for the Nazis
(TBJG, I.1,
609 (27 September 1930)). See also Reuth, 176.
    149 . Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
340–42; Heinrich Brüning,
Memoiren 1918–1934,
dtv edn, 2 vols., Munich, 1972, i.2ooff.; Winkler,
Weimar,
394.
    150 . Above from Brüning, i.203–7 (quotation, 207); see also Krebs, 140: Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
342; Winkler,
Weimar,
393.
    151 . Brüning, i.207.
    152 . Krebs, 141.
    153 .
TBJG, I.1,
614 (6 October 1930): ‘
Es bleibt bei unserer Opposition. Gottlob’
(‘Our opposition remains, thank God’).
    154 .
RSA
, III/3, 430.
    155 . Friedrich Franz von Unruh,
Der National-sozialismus,
Frankfurt am Main, 1931, 17. See also Broszat,
Der Nationalsozialismus,
43–4.
    156 . Bessel, ‘Myth’, 27.
    157 . Broszat, ‘Struktur’, 69–70.
    158 . On the high membership fluctuation within the NSDAP, see Hans Mommsen, ‘National Socialism: Continuity and Change’, in Walter Laqueur (ed.),
Fascism: A Reader’s Guide,
Harmondsworth, 1979, 151–92, here 163; and Hans Mommsen, ‘Die ΝSDAΡ als faschistische Partei’, in Richard Saage (ed.),
Das Scheitern diktatorischer Legitimationsmuster und die Zukunftsfähigkeit der Demokratie,
Berlin, 1995, 257–71, here 265.
    159 . Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
319, cit.
Frankfurter Zeitung,
15 September 1930.
    160 . Hanfstaengl, 15
Jahre,
218.
    161 . Wagener, 24.
    162 . Wagener, 59, 73, 83–4.
    163 . Wagener, 128.
    164 . Tyrell,
Führer,
348.
    165 . Wagener, 128. See former Leutnant Scheringer’s recollection of a meeting with Hitler in 1930: ‘Listening to him, I had the firm impression that the man believes what he says, as simple as the slogans are. He is suspended in his thinking three metres above the ground. He doesn’t speak; he preaches… He is incapable of a clear political analysis however powerful his talent as an agitator might be’ (Scheringer, 242).
    166 . Wagener, 59.
    167 . Wagener, 84.
    168 . Wagener, 96.
    169 . Wagener, 98. According to Wagener, there were ten rooms, on two floors.Hanfstaengl, 15
Jahre,
231, speaks of a ‘nine-room apartment’. Schroeder, 153, like Wagener, spoke of a double-apartment. Lüdecke, 454, describes the ‘luxurious, modern flat’ as comprising ‘eight or nine beautiful large rooms covering the entire second floor’.
    170 . Wagener, 98.
    171 . Hanfstaengl, 15
Jahre,
223;
TBJG, I.1,
578 (20 July 1930); Hoffmann, 49–50.
    172 . Hanfstaengl, 15
Jahre,
182; Hoffmann, 70.
    173 . Wagener, 127.
    174 . Hitler’s self-perceived infallibility left a striking impression on Albert Krebs in a speech Hitler made to party leaders in Munich (Krebs, 138–40). According to Krebs, the speech was made at the end of June 1930. This must be a mistake. Hitler held no speech in Munich in June 1930. Moreover, Krebs refers to a visit, before the speech, to the newly completed ‘Brown House’. The contract for the purchase of what would become the party headquarters was signed on 26 May 1930. But major rebuilding to the former ‘Barlow-Palais’ took place before it was occupied by a number of central party offices on 1 January 1931
(RSA,
III/3, 209 n.17; IV/1,