Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris

164).
    246 . Hanfstaengl, 15
Jahre,
239, 241; Wagener, 358–9; Hayman, 162–3.
    247 . The above based on Frank, 97–8; Hoffmann, 156–9 (a highly embellished account); Hanfstaengl, 15
Jahre,
240; Heiden,
Der Führer,
307;
RSA,
IV/2, 110 n.5.
    248 . Text of the speech in
RSA,
IV/2, 111–15. For Hitler’s reception in Hamburg, Frank, 98.
    249 .
RSA,
IV/2, 111 n.1. Hitler did not appear in two parallel meetings addressed by leading Nazis. Illness was given as the reason.
    250 . See Hanfstaengl, 15
Jahre,
242–3; Hoffmann, 159; also, implicitly, Wagener, 358; and H. v. Schirach, 205. Long after the war, Hitler’s sister, Paula, suggested that everything might have been different had Hitler married Mimi Reiter (Peis, ‘Die unbekannte Geliebte’).
    251 .Hoffman, 155–6; Hanfstaengl, 15
Jahre,
243–4. Hanfstaengl regarded it as a politically inspired, somewhat pathetic but unconvincing display of grief.
    252 . Falter
et al., Wahlen,
94. Tyrell,
Führer,
383, has 25.9 per cent.
    253 . Falter
et al., Wahlen,
100; Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
352.
    254 . Falter
et al., Wahlen,
95.
    255 . Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
357;
RSA,
IV/2, 123–32.
    256 . Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
352–8;
RSA,
IV/2, 159–64; Turner,
German Big Business,
189.
    257 . Turner,
German Big Business,
167–71.
    258 . Turner,
German Big Business,
144.
    259 . Turner,
German Big Business,
144–5.
    260 . Hjalmar Schacht,
My First Seventy-Six Years,
London, 1955, 279.
    261 . Schacht, 279–80.
    262 . Turner,
German Big Business,
145.
    263 . Cuno had been persuaded by some of his supporters – including the powerful Ruhr industrialist Paul Reusch – to consider making a political comeback and standing for the Reich Presidency. Retired Admiral Magnus Levetzow, one of those most keen to see Cuno stand, arranged for him to meet Hitler in Berlin in the hope of winning the backing of the NSDAP (Turner,
German Big Business ,
129).
    264 . Turner,
German Big Business,
129–30.
    265 . Turner,
German Big Business,
130–32.
    266 . Turner,
German Big Business,
146, 150; Wagener, 368–74.
    267 . Turner,
German Big Business,
142, 187.
    268 . Turner,
German Big Business,
128, 181–2.
    269 . Turner,
German Big Business,
191–203.
    270 . Otto Dietrich,
Mit Hitler an die Macht. Persönliche Erlebnisse mit meinem Führer,
7th edn, Munich, 1934, 45–6; Turner,
German Big Business,
171–2.
    271 . Henry Ashby Turner, ‘Big Business and the Rise of Hitler’, in Turner,
Nazism and Third Reich,
93–7 (originally publ. in
American Historical Review,
75 (1969), 56–70).
    272 . Turner,
German Big Business,
204–19. Many leading industrialists were in any case conspicuous by their absence. Dietrich,
Mit Hitler,
46–9, depicts Hitler winning the hearts and minds of his initially cool audience. In his post-war memoirs, Dietrich emphasized the limited financial contributions of big business to the Nazi Party before 1933 (Otto Dietrich,
Zwölf Jahre mit Hitler,
Cologne (n.d., 1955?), 185–6).
    273 . Turner,
German Big Business,
208–10, 213–14; text of speech,
RS A,
IV/3, 74–110; and in Domarus, 68–90.
    274 . Turner,
German Big Business,
217–19.
    275 . See the character sketch in Henry Ashby Turner,
Hitler’s Thirty Days to Power: January 1933,
London, 1996, 39–41.
    276 . Turner, ‘Big Business and the Rise of Hitler’, 94, 97.
    277 . Turner,
German Big Business,
111–24; Henry Ashby Turner and Horst Matzerath, ‘Die Selbstfinanzierung der NSDAP 1930–32’, 59–92.
    278 .Wagener, 221–2.
    279 . Turner,
German Big Business,
148–52, 157; Wagener, 226–9.
    280 . Wagener, 227; Turner,
German Big Business,
152.
    281 . See Turner,
German Big Business,
47–60.
    282 . Above based on Turner,
German Big Business,
153–6. Hitler’s income tripled in 1930 to reported gross taxable receipts of 48, 472 Reich Marks. This rose further by 1932 to 64, 639 Reich Marks (Hale, ‘Adolf Hitler: Taxpayer’, 837). See also, for Hitler’s earnings around this time, Hanfstaengl, 15
Jahre,
216; and B.v. Schirach, 112–13.
    283 . Franz von Papen,
Memoirs,
London, 1952, 142–3; Otto Meissner,
Staatssekretär unter Ebert – Hindenburg – Hitler,
Hamburg, 1950, 216.
    284 .
TBJG,
I.2, 106 (7 January 1932); Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
370–72; Papen, 146.
    285 . Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
372; Walther Hubatsch,
Hindenburg und der Staat,
Göttingen, 1966, 309–10.
    286 . The exchange was published by the Nazis in a brochure:
Hitlers Auseinandersetzung mit Brüning. Kampfschrift, Broschürenreihe