Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris

der Reichspropagandaleitung der NSDAP,
Heft 5, Munich, 1932, 73–94. Hitler’s open letter to Brüning, dated 15 January 1932, is reprinted in
RSA
IV/3, 34–44.
    287 . Meissner, 216–17.
    288 .
TBJG,
I.2, 120–21 (3 February 1932). See Fest,
Hitler,
439–40.
    289 .
TBJG,
1.2, 130–31 (22 February 1932), 134 (27 February 1932).
    290 . Rudolf Morsey, ‘Hitler als Braunschweigischer Regierungsrat’,
VfZ,
8 (1960), 419–48; Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
373–6.
    291 . See Papen, 147.
    292 .
RSA,
IV/3, 138–44 (quotation, 144);Domarus, 95;
TBJG,
1.2, 134 (27February 1932).
    293 . Domarus, 96.
    294 .
TBJG,
I.2, 140–41 (13 March 1932).
    295 . Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
381; Falter
et al., Wahlen,
46.
    296 .
RSA,
V/1, 16–43; Domarus, 101–3.
    297 . Falter
et al., Wahlen,
46.
    298 .
TBJG,
I.2, 152–3 (8–11 April 1932).
    299 . Saxony, Baden, Hessen and Thuringia were the largest states, with a total population of just over 10 million, not voting on that day. Roughly another 2 million lived in the smaller states which were not holding Landtag elections on 24 April. The population of those states going to the polls that day numbered close on 50 million. Figures taken from Falter
et al., Wahlen,
90–113.
    300 .
RSA
, V/1, 59–97; Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
385–6; Domarus, 106–7.
    301 .
Miesbacher Anzeiger,
19 April 1932.
    302 . Jochmann,
Nationalsozialismus und Revolution,
404–5; Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
386–7;
RSA,
V/1, 97 and Doc.61 n.1–2 (and 92–6, Doc.60, for the speech).
    303 . Falter
et al., Wahlen,
89, 91, 94, 101; Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
387–8.
    304 .
TBJG,
I.2, 160 (23 April 1932).
    305 .Domarus, 105; Longerich,
Die braunen Bataillone,
154.
    306 . Karl Dietrich Bracher,
Die Auflösung der Weimarer Republik. Eine Studie zum Problem des Machtverfalls in einer Demokratie,
Stuttgart/Düsseldorf, 1955, 481 and n.2; Longerich,
Die braunen Bataillone,
153–4.
    307 . Ulrich Herbert,
Best. Biographische Studien über Radikalismus, Weltanschauung und Vernunft 1903–1989,
Bonn, 1996, 111–19.
    308 . Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
363.
    309 . Longerich,
Die braunen Bataillone,
159 for membership growth in early 1932.
    310 .
TBJG,
I.2, 139 (11 March 1932).
    311 . Longerich,
Die braunen Bataillone,
153.
    312 .
TBJG,
I.2, 150 (2 April 1932).
    313 .
TBJG,
I.2, 154 (11 April 1932). Goebbels had noted in his diary on 17 March that the Prussian Interior Minister Severing, following house-searches in Berlin, was apparently planning a ban on the SA
(TBJG,
I.2, 144).
    314 . Longerich,
Die braunen Bataillone,
154.
    315 .
RSA,
V/1, 54–6; Domarus, 105–6. Hindenburg had wanted the ban extended to the Communists (Papen, 149).
    316 . Kolb,
Die Weimarer Republik,
136–7.
    317 .
TBJG,
I.2, 162 (28 April 1932); Winkler,
Weimar,
461–2. Schleicher had already had talks with Röhm and Graf Helldorf, the Berlin SA leader. See also Thilo Vogelsang,
Reichswehr, Staat und NSDAP,
Stuttgart, 1962, 188–9.
    318 .
TBJG,
I.2, 165 (8 May 1932).
    319 . Papen, 153; see Winkler,
Weimar,
462–3.
    320 .
TBJG,
I.2, 166–7 (10–11 May 1932); Schulz,
Von Brüning zu Hitler,
821.
    321 .
TBJG,
I.2, 168 (12 May 1932); see Winkler,
Weimar,
465.
    322 .
TBJG,
I.2, 169 (13 May 1932).
    323 . Brüning,
Memoiren,
ii.632–8; Winkler,
Weimar,
470–72.
    324 . Joseph Goebbels,
Vom Kaiserhof zur Reichskanzlei. Eine historische Darstellung in Tagebuchblättern (Vom 1. Januar 1932 bis zum 1. Mai 1933),
21st edn, Munich, 1937, 103–4 (30 May 1932);
TBJG,
I.2, 177.
    325 . Papen, 150–56.
    326 . Papen, 162.
    327 . Falter
et al., Wahlen,
98, 100.
    328 . Falter
et al., Wahlen,
95.
    329 . Papen, 163; Winkler,
Weimar,
404.
    330 . See Goebbels,
Kaiserhof, 111
(14 June 1932);
TBJG,
I.2, 185.
    331 . For evidence of the strong support offered to the NSDAP from the well-to-do middle classes, see the examination of votes cast at holiday resorts or on cruise liners in July 1932 in Richard F. Hamilton,
Who Voted for Hitler?,
Princeton, 1982, 220–28.
    332 . Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
392–3; Winkler,
Weimar,
490–93. And see, for the local background to the violence in Altona, Anthony McElligott, ‘“… und so kam es zueiner schweren Schlägerei”. Straßenschlachten in Altona und Hamburg am Ende der Weimarer Republik’, in Maike Bruns
et al.
(eds.),
‘Hier war doch alles nicht so schlimm.’ Wie die Nazis in Hamburg den Alltag eroberten,
Hamburg, 1984, 58–85.
    333 . Winkler,
Weimar,
495–503; Broszat,
Machtergreifung,
148–50.
    334 .
TBJG,
I.2, 155 (15 April 1932).
    335 .