Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris

206–18).
    175 . Wagener, 127–8.
    176 . Wagener, 119–20.
    177 . Wagener, 128.
    178 . Frank, 93.
    179 . Frank, 91–2. Wagener, 107, refers to the ban on smoking in Hitler’s room. From the date indicated, early summer 1930, this presumably refers to the party headquarters in Schellingstraße, before the move to the Brown House took place.
    180 . Hanfstaengl, 15
Jahre,
223.
    181 . Frank, 93–4.
    182 . Wagener, 72.
    183 . See Wagener, 111–12 (Wagener’s economic proposals).
    184 . See Tyrell,
Führer,
311 for the suggestion that Hitler’s self-belief was even now less pronounced than the image he presented to others – a possibility, but an unprovable assertion.
    185 . See the repeated references in Wagener, e.g., 43, 48, 56, 96–7, 111–12.
    186 . Wagener reported that Hitler stopped eating meat only after Geli Raubal’s death (Wagener, 362). This contrasts with Hanfstaengl’s less dramatic explanation, that Hitler gradually began to cut out meat (and alcohol) after putting on weight in Landsberg, until it turned into a dogma (Hanfstaengl, 15
Jahre,
164). The health reasons adduced by Krebs would accord better with such an explanation, though it is possible that the trauma following his niece’s death led to Hitler’s final turn to complete vegetarianism.
    187 . Krebs, 136–7.
    188 . Wagener, 72; and see 127 for similar comments by Wagener and Gregor Strasser.
    189 . Wagener, 301.
    190 . Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
346; Longerich,
Die braunen Bataillone,
108–9.
    191 .See OSAF-Stellvertreter Süd Schneidhuber’s remarks in Longerich,
Die braunen Bataillone,
106.
    192 . Longerich,
Die braunen Bataillone,
102–4.
    193 .
TBJG, I.1,
596–7 (1 September 1930).
    194 . Longerich,
Die braunen Bataillone,
104;
RSA,
III/3, 377–81.
    195 . Tyrell,
Führer,
338; Longerich,
Die braunen Bataillone,
106.
    196 . Tyrell,
Führer,
314; Wagener, 60–62. Hitler’s personal aversion to smoking had, of course, no bearing on his party’s readiness to benefit from its contact with cigarette firms.
    197 . Longerich,
Die braunen Bataillone,
107.
    198 .
RSA,
IV/1, 183; Longerich,
Die braunen Bataillone,
108–10.
    199 . Longerich,
Die braunen Bataillone, 110–
11.
    200 .
RSA,
IV/1, 200.
    201 .
RSA,
IV/1, 229–30. What the legal route to power would mean had again been explicitly stated, this time by Goebbels, in a speech to the Reichstag on 5 February: ‘According to the constitution we are only bound to the legality of the way, not the legality of the goal. We want to take power legally. But what we once do with this power when we have it, that’s our business’ (Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
347). The ‘Third Reich’, which Hitler mentioned, today synonymous with the period of Nazi rule, derived originally from the apocalyptic notions of the twelfth-century mystic Joachim of Fiore, who had seen three ages – of the Father, the Son, and coming age of the Holy Spirit. The term had been made popular in more recent times by the book of that title published in 1923 by the neo-conservative Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, advocating a new state – the third great Reich to succeed those of the Holy Roman Empire and of Bismarck – to replace the detested Weimar democracy. Hitler famously declared in 1933 that ‘the Third Reich’ would last for 1,000 years. But already in 1939 the press was instructed to avoid usage of the term (Benz, Graml and Weiß,
Enzyklopädie des Nationalsozialismus,
435).
    202 . In practice, Communists accounted for close on two-thirds of the arrests made under the decree (Winkler,
Weimar,
401). For Hitler’s response to the decree, see RSA, IV/1, 236–8. A uniform ban on the SA had already been attempted the previous year (Longerich,
Die braunen Bataillone,
100).
    203 .
TBJG,
I.2, 41 (30 March 1931).
    204 .
RSA,
IV/I, 236–8.
    205 .
TBJG,
I.2, 42 (31 March 1931).
    206 .
TBJG,
I.2, 42–3 (2 April 1931);
Tb
Reuth, ii.575 n.25, cit.
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung,
2 April 1931;
RSA,
IV/1, 248 n.2; Longerich,
Die braunen Bataillone,
111.
    207 .
RSA,
IV/1, 246–8.
    208 . Longerich,
Die braunen Bataillone, 111
.
    209 .
RSA,
IV/1, 248–59.
    210 . RSA, IV/1, 251.
    211 .
RSA,
IV/1, 256.
    212 .
RSA,
IV/1, 258.
    213 . Longerich,
Die braunen Bataillone, III
.
    214 .
RSA
, IV/1, 26o.
    215 .
TBJG, I
.2, 44 (4 April 1931)
    216 .
RSA,
IV/1, 263–4;
TBJG,
I.2, 44 (4 April 1931).
    217 . Longerich,
Die braunen Bataillone,
111.
    218 . The term ‘politics of hooliganism’ was coined with reference to the SA by Richard