"We all dream of journeys into the universe, into our inner self" "The mysterious path goes inwards;" "into night" "If I offered in one Hand:" "the gold of speculation  the full beer-belly of a government official happiness and all the play things of the world but in the other hand:" "...the longing for paradise and the music of our ideas then everybody would blindly choose paradise even if it were the false paradise greedy for sacrificial blood and ready to offer the best of themselves involving our hopes with the greatest cruelties for the benefit of lunatic triumphs of the human soul" "Conceiling within ourselves all erroneous conclusions the banality and baroque asceticismof mass rituals" "Long is the legend of faith its victories over us and its defeats through us" "Scenario and direction" "Co-producers" "Archive sound" "Dedicated to Henri Langlois and the Cinematheque Francaise for "Film - the Music of the Future", the aesthetic of this film" "I have planned one thing, the gentleman are quite right" "We are intolerant." "I have only one aim; to sweep away all the thirty parties from Germany" "They keep on mistaking me for a bourgois or Marxist politician  who is today SPD, tomorrow USPD the next day Communist, the net day Trade Unionist or today Democrat and tomorrow German Peoples Party then economic Party" "They mix us up with one of their own kind" "We have only one aim and we shall fight for it with a fanatical ruthlessness until death." "(Hitler, 1932)" "Hitler A Film from Germany" "From the Cosmic Ash-Tree to Goethe's Oak and the Beeches of Buchenwald" "Ladies and Gentlemen." "This show is about a man who is guilty of everything" "Like Napoleon; a German Napoleon of the twentieth century" "Or, better, an inhuman brute a man who never laughed without putting his hand before his mouth and who kicked his dog away if he was caught stroking the animal" "Who said: 'ln the beginning, everybody laughed about me..." "'Not only a few are laughing and soon nobody will laugh any more'" "This show's about somebody who had nothing to lose somebody who never can be duplicated" "Ladies and Gentlemen, now we're rid of the Kaiser and God, we can begin" "The song of songs" "The story to top all stories" "Let's give him his chance;" "let's give ourselves our chance" "Taboos, this show's about taboos" "Either give your audience a stunning show or stay home with your canary" "Yes, sir, Cultural Revolution, Art for the People" "The People's right of self-epression to put on a show" "There have been parades and triumphal, sun-symbolizing banners since Caesar's Rome and Caligula" "Mankind in the century of the film." "All or nothing" "The man who banished unemployment who drove the money. changers from the temple and cleansed the houses of sex and crime" "The man of the twentieth century" "The man of humble origins who came from the people, like every one of us, from the masses" "Hurrah." "The devil i oose" "Knaves and trumps, perversions and racketeering" "Who could then stand aloof?" "Hit them hard, beat the devil" "A merry apocalypse, Experiment 'End of the World" something about our wolfish society" "Here are the rules of the game:" "There'll be no heroes, except ourselves" "There'll be no story, only ours, our inside story" "Clouded visions, with bloody orgies before the final daybreak" "No human stories, but a history of mankind" "No disaster film but disaster as film the end of the world, the great flood, the final cosmic agony... so we've no intimate scenes about the fear and misery of the Third Reich nothing about the "cabbage trust" gangster politics of the times" "Rather, something about the faith that moves mountains and a people's leader without equal" "Summon up all our strength, your gladness and your sorrow... (1st May, 1933)" "In a few hours we shall see here the biggest mass meeting ever assembled" "All who want to see Stalingrad again, or the 20th of July plot or the lone wolf's last days in his bunker or the Nuremberg of Leni Riefenstahl, will be disappointed" "We aren't showing the unrepeatable reality nor the emotional dramas of the victims nor the factual documentary approach nor the money-spinners that trade on morality, on horror on fear, death, repentance, arrogance and rightous anger" "The German worker, centre of this celebration, has surpassed himself" "This is no left wing opportunist death-camp sex film" "This is a film for us." "It's about war and genocide" "Auschwitz as the battlefield of race war" "Who does the world hold guilty?" "And what would Hitler be without us?" "This film's about the divine spark in man about the starry sky above us and the moral law within myself" "It's about fantasies of the mind and their bloody realization" "Mephistopheles playing to a full house, which is burning" "Once again" "But how shall we?" "Is it for art?" "Moral philosophy, after fifty million dead?" "Silence?" "Are we to remain silent?" "It concerns us." "Not the "haves"  but us, the "have nots" who live in hope who put our hopes in those who will finally take some action who go along with them who went along with everything, just once, and even that was wrong" "It's about the biggest crisis in human existence world-wide, with new techniques" "I warned, I Ludwig the second warned from the beginning  I warned that business, speculation films, pornography, politics were all show for the masses" "Entertainment, to make money" "But how can one, how can I, how can you and I mean this seriously be entertained by tragic events, the work of a few madmen?" "Were the perpetrators all criminals?" "Were the victims all good people?" "Masochists." "Systems." "Laws" "Lawers." "Academics" "Newspapers." "People" "A nation." "Socialism." "Workers..." "madness" "And have some charity for such transgression" "But what should we be without that guilt?" "We live off the success of sorrow, don't we?" "felix culpa..." "O happy guilt." "A sad but nice bit of business in the name of art" "But how am I to do it?" "How can anyone un-sympathetic to this subject go on and make such a film?" "Shouldn't I, shouldn't we live without this film, push aside our thougts think of something else, something more important?" "He shall, he must have his chance" "Let him be born, like all of us, and have a mother be permitted to learn, to love and to hate" "Influenced by what and by whom?" "Why did he take this or that decision?" "And if, at the end, he must appear as he did let us allow him to begin again as we all do when we came into the world" "What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world  and have no love and lose his own soul?" "Quotations...watch out, everybody :" "quotations." "The whole western culture and the Christian God are part of this" "We're in between Jesus and Hitler" "Which brings us to the jews and the persecutors and the transactions and the whole madness of the ideas and self-hatred and love mixed up with them" "They all envy me for this puppet, vitally essential as it is" "But what shall I do... if it sees things, like the staircase of tears..." "A grandfather... who shows his grandchild the stars to distract it" "The good old stars, taken from us long ago by the smog of the cities" "A mother with her baby in her arms" "Black uniformed men with skulls on their caps... all around their caps, and a machine-gun in their hands the bodies, still warm, trembling in the ditch into which they, too, must go" "Shots in the night, curses whispers beneath the night stars" "Who can hear the great curse in the stones all around?" "No sleep for the children and children's children of the guilty" "Music over everything" "Music enhances everything" "When, during the last war the great comedian Karl Valentin stepped onto a Munich stage amid victory celebrations he sang, very quietly the German folk-songs:" "In deepest cellar, here I sit;" "what is coming from the sky?" "And:" "Oh, my dear Augustin, everything's gone" "That Valentin did not sell his famous collection of postcards to Adolf Hitler" "In it was the card of the child Ludwig with a beard" "He refused the offer of 100,000 Reichsmark and a life pension of a thousand marks a month because Hitler demanded he should stop making films" "Where, I wonder, would I find another Valentin who would say no to such offers?" "After the war, he was informed by the then boss of Bavarian Radio that his services would no longer be needed, due to his lack of humor" "Then the great Valentin wept for the first time, before he died" "Weeping after Hitler had gone, that was our Valentin" "He no longer had a chance to object to anything" "The people after Hitler had no more use for that Valentin" "God always created ten who beat their breasts, lamenting and one fool who entertained them, laughing" "Which are you?" "Forward. forward, the trumpets are calling" "Forward. forward, youth knows no danger" "No matter how high the aim" "Youth will reach it" "Our flag leads us on" "We step towards the future" "We march on for Hitler, through night and danger" "Wiith the flag of youth, for freedom and bread" "Our flag leads us on" "Our flag is the new era" "Our flag leads us on to eternity" "Yes, our flag is greater than death" "German youth." "As we have decided to put on a show together, in democratic fashion about how he and we came to power let's go the whole hog" "Let's make it a fun show, for once, everyone can join in" "It's bound to be shocking : that man his misdeeds and us helping him" "So let's start yelling right away" "Primal yell-therapy." "We'll go far back into our childhood" "Back into our most secret wishes, dreams and stories" "As we have no Hitler to exhibit in a cage to spit at, kick or kiss his hands according to our individual tastes, for the fee of a few marks the way Lola Montes, in her day could be touched in an American circus, for a dollar" "I suggest each of us plays himself acts here, in front of all, his own version of Hitler as he acts him still today, at home in his little room, before the mirror or on a motor cycle... with Swastika and Madonna as lucky charms on his chest, beneath his leather jacket as he drives against the wind" "Let's make it a commercial film for, after all, film has always been a commercial business" "No, please, think back, deep into yourself" "Never was there a man so loved and so hated" "Never has so much been projected by so many into one man" "This is about us, all of us" "It's about the happiness we were promised and never given" "It's about the people who elected him and sacrificed everything for him themselves and their ideas sons, fathers, friends and their image of the world" "Cities, whole countries, their conscience and their souls" "It's about the Hitler within us..." "On a small budget, without sets, with slide projections and our imaginations, where everyone can join in" "The world as a circus and as a fairground side-show" "So let's give him and ourselves a chance" "Silence, please." "The Führer will show himself just once more and then asks all to go home, as he has many conferences" "Neither the Party nor the common will spurred me on" "It was the thousands who killed themselves to escape the Depression" "Soon I shall ensure perfect order in society" "Plutocrats and Jewish elements want to dictate to the German worker." "This is now absolutely and soley in my power" "Germany is Hitler." "Hitler is Germany." "All those fanatical opponents, I know where they'll be going: into misery where they have long belonged" "Perfect order in society." "I repeat: perfect order" "You can judge how I have felt since those days and how I feel now" "I am so overjoyed that fate has chosen me to complete the great union of the German people... (Hitler, Vienna, 1938)" "It is absolutely certain that our new community will nevermore be dissolved" "You ruthless tyrants, you servants of Baal, you judges of Sodom." "Your limbs shall wither" "Your living bodies shall decay" "The bones of your children and your children's children will fester." "Each day shall bring you misfortune and pain shall drive sleep from your eyes" "Germany has become Greater Germany" "And shall remain so." "Not only the genius of the Commander- in-Chief has led to victory but also providence" "Yet they don't know, all the same, that Rumpelstiltskin is my name" "The entire nation is assembled for the final roll-call to hear your great, historic statement" "I ask you, my Führer, to speak to us" "We want our Führer." "German fellow-country men and woman" "This is the third time that I speak in a frontier town on the occasion of a plebiscite" "In 1933 it was Königsberg" "It was there, on the 4th March that I urged the nation within the then frontiers of the Reich to show it's faith in me to enable me independent of parliamentary difficulties to take hold of Germany's destiny and shape it more auspiciously" "The second time I spoke in a frontier town it was Cologne on the 28th March, 1936 again an the eve of a plebiscite when I had to appeal to the German people to endorse the very difficult decision I made a decision to restore the formerly demilitarized zone to the sovereignty of the Reich" "Today I stand here in Vienna on the eve of a decision which I believe will go down in the annals of the German history" "In this town I'm the biggest sow I only sleep with Jew-boys now" "First World War veterean..." "It was in 1915  I was blinded by a Russian grenade..." "In eighteen years of darkness I was a part of the fatherland's misery" "But the German war-blind... were never defeated by their personel tragedy" "A constant will-power drove us to contribute to the fatherland" "If today a greater hope for the future shines over Germany then that bright light also penetrates our lives and gives us new strength" "This day will become the reward for our sacrifices" "Once more there'll be honesty, discipline and faith" "Let this day of spring by a symbol of a bright, beautyful Germany once more" "Fellow Germans." "At this moment when the guns greet the day of victory with their thunderous salute I call on you as one of the millions who gave of their utmost" "Therefore, be united, close the ranks to hasten the longed-for day of liberty" "Be true to your vow :" "All for Germany, our beloved fatherland." "(Re-enactment, "M', Fritz Lang, 1931 )" "But I can't help what I do." "I can't..." "I can't help what I do" "The old story." "What do you know?" "Who are you to talk?" "Who are you?" "What are you?" "You're all criminals." "Maybe you're even proud of your safe-breaking or burglary or card-sharping" "You need do any of these things if you'd learned a proper trade, if you worked if you weren't such lazy swine" "I can't help myself" "I can't control this evil thing inside me this fire the voices the torment" "You mean you've got to murder?" "All the time..." "It drives me through the streets, as though someone's following me" "It's me, pursuing myself" "Relentlessly" "But it's still me" "Yes, sometimes it's as though  I'm pursuing myself" "I must escape" "I must escape, flee before myself" "But it's impossible" "I have to run, I must run through endless streets" "I want to escape..." "But the ghosts are pursuing me, the ghosts of the mothers the ghosts of the children, always there" "Those children those children are always there and then I...except except when I do it" "Then I see the posters" "I read the posters about what I have done" "I read and read." "Did I do that?" "But I can't remember anything about it" "But who will believe me?" "I'm forced to do it;" "I don't want to, but I must" "Who knows what it's like to be me?" "I must do it." "I don't want to, but I must." "I must do it, I can't stop it." "I must do it, but no one will believe me." "Sometimes he, too thought his will-power was cut off and he was being punished for whole generations of his ancestors people and stars but he had to go through with it" "And when he woke up suddenly in the night and thought he had seen it the new man he yelled and foamed at the mouth and he had to be calmed and washed, but no one was allowed to speak of it" "He proceeded with unbelievable harshness against himself" "Against any softening of his inner feelings and against his desire for enjoyment and gentleness which of course existed in him as in any other human being but was unimportant in his struggle in the self-imposed mission of a life that has marked this century" "Just as he did not allow his mother to caress him because it interfered with his love for himself and for his chosen, purer mother the German people whose love he craved" "And how he condemned everything in the end in the bunker of his failure when, resigned to his fate... he surrendered to Eva's servant- girl love and married her" "He cursed Poland which would never belong to him and for which the English entered the war" "And on his embittered lips a curse on France and England and their inevitable decline predicting the end of European power so so closely linked with the destruction of Germany divided between East and West governed by oil interests and bureaucratic states by bribed politicians, whoever and wherever they are finally only as an aged Hitler ailing since Stalingrad, knowing that not only the war was lost but also the sacrificing of millions of enemies as he considered the Jews and the war opponents was in vain suffering the tortures of hell for years, to end a living corpse" "A corpse with a trembling arm and breath summoning his last strength surveying a world which was not worthy of him" "Here is a special bulletin on the Army High Command communique" "The Army High Command reports an astounding German victory over France after a mere six week campaign" "There has been a cease-fire since 01.35 today (25th June, 1940)" "The only one who will acknowledge him will be a black african ruler, quite mad respected by all, in the United Nations ranting against Jews quite openly and received without demur by the Catholic Pope" "Thirty years after his death his end in petrol and ruins, burned by his servants and drivers" "Madness is his legacy, and that is only the beginning" "All of us, standing around helpless before this man, created in God's image, even he?" "Hitler like us" "A part of us, in us?" "In all of us?" "(Charles de Gaulle, 22nd June, 1940)" "Our reunion with our allies restores freedom to the world and greatness to our country... (Winston Churchill, 21st October, 1940)" "Many lie in graves besides their fathers who fell in the Great War" "They testify to a silent heroism they are the symbol of hundreds of thousends of riflemen, tank crews pioneers, gunners, sailors, marines, airmen men of the Waffen-SS (Armed SS) and all other fighters who have joined the armed struggle for our freedom and future and for the eternal greatness of the National Socialist Reich..." "(Hitler, Reichstag, 19th July, 1942)... (Roll-call of Nazi martyrs at a comme- moration of the Munich putsch of 1923)" "All are rogues, including me" "But if we are, let us be the greatest" "And I'll see to it: in a hundred years every word that each of us says will be in a film" "The part you play in it is up to you" "I'll make you into legend, into myth" "Through your death, if necssary" "Yes, you can laugh down there but try to follow my example :" "conquer the world in 23 years and change it from top to bottom" "I'm the devil incarnate yet a human being who laughed at Mickey Mouse, just as you do" "Culture?" "When I hear the word culture, I reach for my pistol" "That's the art for the people that we want" "Our cultural revolution is for a more popular art, an art of the people" "Art is an exalted mission which demands fanaticism" "No people lives longer than the documents of its culture" "We pay with our lives for art" "Everything is going to be out in the open" "Let's have some peace and quiet" "Yes, we are the beasts of prey of mankind" "But why don't you give us the rights of the fox and hyena amongst people the lone, ravaging wolf in the society of wolves?" "With our own marks of race, recognizable, pursuable fighting for our hungry brood, the live-aims of our kind fair game, without the right to live, but not to be tortured not disowned or sold by the traders in so-called morality" "Exterminate us, but don't exploit us commercially, if you want to be better than the morality with which we have always characterized you" "We aren't ghosts ; you're supposed to be afraid when you see me" "So be afraid" "They were afraid when they saw me" "I taught them, because I am a school-master  I taught them to eat of the tree of knowlegde once more to gain a new innocence and that will be the end of the world" "And it was the end of the world" "Who will ask, in five hundred years if Fräulein Schultze or Fräulein Müller was unhappy after they have considered my work?" "Who asks, when admiring the pyramids of the Pharaohs how many slaves perished beneath the stones?" "We live by old, living traditions" "I am so frustrated, so very frustrated" "My friends have invited me to one of those big meetings" "He spoke as he always spoke" "There was a brawl, bottles were thrown, chairs, eggs" "My jacket was wet and stained" "Suddenly he, a stranger, stood before me and gave me his jacket" "I stood before him in his jacket like armour, burning around me;" "he had chosen me out of thousands" "It was his choice and it was right, as he always chose rightly" "later I helped him conduct his war, as only I could organize it his war minister and an artist, as he was" "That's how I met him and I stuck it out with him to the end" "I don't know either, what made me choose him" "Did I choose him, or did he choose me?" "It had to happen one way or the other" "Did I choose him, or did it happen the way I told you?" "Yes, that's what we make of him:" "Adolf the degenerate Punch" "Mineral water instead of beer vegetarian food instead of roast pork Sieg Heil instead of gobbledegook and Sieg Heil, that's German progress, Punch as leader" "Yes, the leader as Punch" "It's the vengeance of hell that they live on as clowns" "Adolf must yodel, keep on yodelling" "And Eva must dance for ever." "At the October Festival" "The children will laugh at immortal Punch and Judy the big number, that is the first stage of punishment in hell's ante-room" "The clown as Hitler in us" "If the ideas and ideals of the masses demand it we are always good, I can vouch for it" "Let mediocrity rule the world ; against individualists it's implacable, ice-cold" "The Hitler of the simple man in the street, that's me" "But he, the boss, must never go inside... god does not tolerate him in hell, he would burst it" "Perhaps because he's too big" "Lost, he's looking for a new place between heaven and hell and that means Earth again" "In which disguise?" "Made immortal through us, in us?" "I'm a workman's son, yes sir, and what's more  I'm a workman's son who's strictly Roman Catholic" "Strictly Catholic, with an academic education at our universities" "And do I look like a German, eh?" "But I shall plant time-bombs of hero worship and understanding and rebirth of National Socialism" "They will exlode in a hundred years, or sooner, or later" "As long as man and democracy exist, anyway, in eternally new disguises" "That is the secret of my message the propaganda of steely romanticism" "When we depart, the whole universe shall tremble" "Nobody will ever be worthy of us despite all democracies and dictatorships of the masses everywhere" "People keep saying that none of it is true, that I'm not real" "Some say I'm a monster, others talk of the endless nullity of my deeds... the Bolsheviks always say I'm a man of the plutocrats and the plutocrats always lump together the red and brown plagues" "None of them understood anything" "What did we have in common with Marx, or Krupp of the declining upper class?" "Some say none of it is true, others speak of me as a god, not as a human" "As if it had never been achieved, the rise from nothing the people's community of workers by head and workers by fist" "That's what they all wanted" "The fantastic explosion of the war the victory over France and the whole of Europe millions dead, concentration camps, the bombing I initiated the methods of incineration, euthanasia and the catastrophes" "So friends and foes try to erase me" "But everything was only invention what a wealth of fantasy and that's why I love Karl May, the honest writer" "We're dealing with the rise of the new man of the masses his outstanding leader-figures and the survival of man, whether they want it or not" "This is about the Hitler of the simple man" "And what is this man like, whom they elected from their ranks?" "He encompasses Volkswagen and concentration camp Wolfsburg and Auschwitz, Bayreuth and UFA and Obersalzberg..." "(10th May 1933) All German transmitters calling" "We are at the Opernplatz, Unter den Linden, Berlin" "The Berlin districts German students' organization  with the Action Fighting Committee Against the un-German Spirit is at this moment burning books of immortal and destructive content" "You will hear the fire-slogans of Berlin's students" "Then Minister Dr. Goebbels will speak" "Against the soul-destroying over-estimation of the sex-life and for the nobility of the human soul  I surrender to the flames the writings of the Sigmund Freud school" "Against the falsification of history and degradation of it's heroes and for respect for our past..." "Against the literary treason to our soldiers of the World War for the education of our people..." "Against the arrogant debasement of the German language for the preservation of the most precious gift of our people..." "Against insolence and arrogance for the respect and appreciation of the immortal spirit of the German people devour, O flame, the writings of Tucholsky and Ossietsky" "Students, German men and women" "The era of Jewish intellectual sophistry is now over. (Goebbels)" "End of Part One" "Faith moves montains" "The faith that must be in all of us... to work and to struggle, for the nation for the Reich" "( GoebbeIs ) 30th January 1943" "A GERMAN DREAM ... until the End of the world" "( Albert Einstein, 24th October, 1940 )" "This war will not be over until German tyranny in Europe is overcome lt is less certain whether, once peace is finally achieved it will bring about an organization to safeguard against future wars in Europe or all the countries in the world" "Only it that is achieved will this generation's suffering not have been in vain" "For that reason, everybody should be aware of that fact that liberation without organized security of liberty for the future is only a postponement" "Achievement of that aim depends on every individual" "Everyone must resist an accaetance of the condition of slavery" "Everyone should, whenever possible act in such way that oppressors and their organization receive no support" "Everyone should willingly accept privation if that will weaken the economy and fighting power of the enemy" "Nobody can rob the European of independence if he holds onto it with all his strength" "(The Magician )" "Ladies and gentlemen!" "This is the masseur of Heinrich HimmIer the Reichsführer of the SS" "Yes, I'm the man with the magical hands" "HimmIer's masseur, through whom one could buy humanity for money" "The man needed by the heroes... when their stomachs could no Ionger endure the blood of their victims" "A miracle-heaIer, priest and physician who saved the dutch from deportation to poland and holland from flooding in 1945, as envisaged in the Nazi plans and who arranged the disbandment, not "Iiquidation" of the camps" "For how much money?" "You need money to be human in such times." "Or at any time, naturally" "The man, who was an alchemist and new Copernicus of the twentieth century created the system for the German SS rites for the Cosmos of the Giants and the Nordic Law of Destiny those bIood-utopias of the masses" "A scientist and artist who never even knew what he created and whom he helped son of an organ-pIayer in the ZelIer valley who in his youth played the zither for an intinerant hunchbacked magician he made pressure valves for the newly invented steam engine" "With the money, millions of it he was free to develop a theory of the creation of the earth of moon and ice and fire and the beginning and the end of the world" "Though derided by orthodox scientists, he tought at the Vienna Academy" "The Academy that later rejected the young HitIer as an artist" "A prophet imposed by Himmler on all universities" "A man for adolf hitler" "The man who saw the new atlantis" "The yearning and profound homesickness ...and of all freethinkers and devotees of nudism" "And who knew how difficult it is to comprehend the beginning and end of the cosmos" "That is the man for the unpredictable" "That which the world's insurance companies term "Acts of God" the man of the stars of this Third Reich" "Our astrologer who was first arrested, thrown into a concentration camp then employed by HimmIer, early prophesied the end of the world." "The man concerned with the question;" "which star has guided Hitler?" "And: does he guide the stars for us?" "That artist in the service at State Security who earnestly told why Hitler had to come, but no onewouId believe him on the principle that if calamity is conjured up it is the soothsayer's doing" "This is hitler's valet" "The Man who never saw HitIer in his nightshirt" "The little SS man-in-the-street, the bottom rung of the hierarchy the voter who elected him, the soldier who served him day by day" "Embodiment of the banality of evil, also of the humanity of the banal" "telling us of the private life of the sharks ...and of the greatest one in our cosmos of heroic life without heroes" "The man who burned HitIer who drenched in petrol the corpses of hitler and his wife, Eva in the smal trench behind the bombed ChanceIIery of the Reich... and burnt the leader who had never missed a performance in Bayreuth of The Twilight of the Gods, nor any heroic death in music" "Wagner, are you listening to me?" "Beloved echo, little echo" "Are you there, are you near?" "How I love you, my little dear" "Because Wagnerian music is written with blood  and blood is, as we all know a special juice it attracts the devil, unless it is blood from the heart" "I was there from the beginning to the end" "The only chance for the biggest mass- murderer in the history of the world" "("Leave from the Front" 1941 Report on Aida, Berlin Opera House )" "The curtain has fallen and only the breath of beauty lingers there and in our hearts." "...pure and clear, radiant and tender brave in its beauty for the harshness which is waiting for us" "Tomorrow will bring another scene for our soldiers on leave:" "the festive crowd will have changed to a throng of soldiers at a station ...awaiting the train which will take them back to duty" "( ln a train to the front )" "Don't always grieve, don't always weep" "Don't contantly visit the grave where l sleep" "But on my birthday it would be fine lf you'd water the flowers there with the new wine" "Before us Leningrad!" "Some humanity in everyday life, to transmit some human warmth out of the blood of that man without a human face" "adolf hitler, also a mother's son;" "she died much mourned by that son to whom private life never mattered now only human as a living creature, a living creature like a hyena but also a creation of God, human, only he never wanted it that way" "( A report from tank troops outside Leningrad)" "Hallo!" "this is The Sacala" "We are nearly 1,600 kilometeres from the famous Scala Theatre in Berlin" "Our splendid Soldiers Cabaret is in one of the big, bore, former cinemas of the Bolshevik Party headquater in a small town outside Leningrad, 20 kilometers behind our front line" "Soliers of our Waffen SS division in civilion life musicions, singers, comedians, artists have combined to give a gala concert performance for the camrades who have just come from the forward frenches" "Soldiers entertaining soldiers" "Mother asked her little boy..." "And whatever else belongs to the cannibals, the muscle men, prophets and magicians of the market" "And here the girls:" "one in the role of Faith the other as the so-caIIed Agnostic" "The post which always looks so sad isn't really so old, often it's just awaiting its rebirth to become the darling of the arts, in marches, myths in religions and the great legends of the people" "blind and from the corner of Iife's poor ghetto" "eternally the symbols of the old and the new systems or ideologies and Utopios for which or against which there are suffering, murder and sacrifices" "And a few animals a little zoology from East and West, us and others, now and than" "For exampIe: cats" "After the tests of courage in the NAPOLA" "NAPOLA were HitIer's political education institutes where the boys had to gouge out the eyes of cats because the Führer disliked cats;" "cats eat birds and the Führer loved birds" "And the apes had their part to play" "Destined to be mated with SIav and other sub-human females to obliterate their rave" "After the war" "And here is the rat" "An animal characterizing one's apponent" "Nazis used it to portray Jews, BoIsheviks to portray capitalists." "The same rat upon which it was proved... that from the ash of its own incinerated sperm an antibody could created which would exterminate its race" "If one observed the rituals" "That's why our planet flew with secret orders, as the war ended over BabeIsberg film studios in particular then called UFA, now DEFA to keep out all Jews for ever, scattering ashes over the Reich if possible over all Europe, East and West which was not quite successful" "And here is the eagle, the proud NibeIung symbol" "For ever fighting rats and cats and apes and dogs" "And here is a typical American animal, a must for any freak show" "What these animals tell us about humans and their time!" "The naked chicken, a breeding succes from the U.S.A." "No plucking requiered, lays sheIl-Iess eggs boneless flesh, guaranteed non-plastic the rubber eagle for every home;" "completely tasteless, of course" "And the insects; they'lI survive like the birds after mankind has ravaged the animal world" "A few more curiosities" "Gouged out eyes of SS-men" "little blue things collected in East Prussia by the Red Army heroes, as they marched in" "also, on the pattern of the hollywood sperm bank available for every female fan with the need and the necessary cash Adolf hitler's semen;" "from a stand-in, of course" "The real capsule lies hidden in an alpine glacier guarded every summer by trained men in a lead casket to be liberated when the moment is ripe and resurrected as a rebirth in an "action" carefully planned since 1945..." "The label is easy to read" "BandIeader Wolf, with heart and genuine Austrian charm attested by a female authority as having seen Tristan 120 times" "It must leave something in a man" "That's all about the man who was able to break hollywood's hold..." "The holy grail, the black stone treasure of all legends an kings found by HimmIer in Montsegur, in France, during the war was planned to be the centre of the new Reich in Bayreuth" "The shrine of the aforementioned relic now well guarded until the new liberation demands annual death sacrifices in secret combats amidst Alpine mountains and lakes" "Here, well guarded, is a duplicate" "also, a sacred spear" "From the Vienna Treasury" "Due to the possession of this the Habsburgs gained world power after the Roman Empire" "It was the spear used to stab Christ by the roman Iegionary Longinus" "It was later celebrated in Parsifal" "It passed into the possession of the apostle Thomas, Constantine the Great CharIemagne, Otto, Heinrich Barbarossa, the Habsburgs and Hitler" "Who will be the next to rule the world?" "The AIsatian" "A direct descendant of HiIer's BIondi" "Loaned by the garrison of the East Berlin wall" "It has already caught many escapers" "It nearly tore to pieces one who has trying to flee from one part of Germany to the other in a German uniform" "The uniform of old Prussia" "And now HimmIer's original Germanic Horse" "White, with a red mane he saw it once when travelling through poland by train" "But he never caught it although he ordered an entire Institute of Heredity to catch it and bring it to him" "The Führer's headquarters, 26th September, 1941" "A Wehrmacht High Command communiqué" "The destruction of Kiev proceeds without mercy" "The total of prisoners has increased steadily to 492,000 and is steadily increasing" "( GoebbeIs ) The forces need warm clothes" "Woollens, socks, vests..." "A Wehrmacht High Command communiqué." "Our" "Murmansk harbour was bombed in daylight as were important factories in and out Moscow" "A convoy from North America to Britain was intercepted by German U-boats" "Ten merchantmen were sunk during an extendet action including three fully loaded tankers..." "( GoebbeIs ) ...all these items are needed at the front" "Quilted or lined undervests, scarves...in short, everything" "Heil Hitler!" "It is just after 5 a.m." "Today is Sunday, 19th, October, 1941." "We begin today's programmes" "(The Japanese Prime Minister justifies his counry's attack on pearl Harbour)" "(7 th, December, 1941)" "Who am I?" "sometimes I imagine what if my name was EIIerkamp, just for a joke?" "SS Section Leader in adolf hitler's bodyguard and former film projectionist of hitler, the chancellor, in Berlin and the Berghof, ObersaIzberg" "After 1945, as producer and distributor first of folksy schmaItz, then of blue movies" "I made German film history" "Disney and Erwin Leiser's Mein Kampf" "8mm for German home movie shows on the counters of the sex shops." "hitler is now the big hit" "Hard porn under the counter..." "Do you think I enjoyed doing that?" "But if the public the purchaser, the customer the people, the majority wants it and asks for it and pays for it?" "After all, we are living in a democracy and the customer is always right;" "if he pays, of course" "And nowadays Hitler sells" "Or am I only one of the greatest entertainers?" "A solo performer, a ring master... of a big show which calls itself "history" and "past"?" "Or am I only the host Koberwitz at one of the weekly evenings in 1923 in a Bavarian villa?" "Or perhaps just a film fan who watches everything rolling past, tinkering with projectors and cameras and identifying himself with it all" "If the Jews want a world war to exterminate the European races the result will be otherwise:" "it will be the extermination of the Jews in Europe" "(HitIer, Munich, 8th November, 1942 )" "They have always derided me as a prophet" "But those who laughed at that time, a great number are laughing no more" "And those who are still laughing will soon no longer be laughing" "(RolI-caII of Nazi martyrs, 9th November, 1935 )" "I, SS man EIIerkamp HitIer's film projectionist, who knew his most secret desires his dreams, everything he wanted beyond the real world" "Two or three films every day, Broadway Melody with Fred Astaire ...Snow White by Disney, The ideal Husband with Heinz Rühmann anything with Weiss Ferdl, Moser and Rühmann and the Nibelungs by Fritz Lang, again and again" "The Flaming Punchbowl, Quax the Pilot, The Finances of the Grand Duke operettas like Scandal around Yolanthe" "I saw him welcoming Jenny Jugo, Anni Ondra and Leni RiefenstahI" "And cracking jokes with Gretl SIezak, Renate MüIler, olga Tschechowa Paula WesseIy and Lil Dagover" "I saw him view the French films which he banned for the public and how GoebbeIs kept ChapIin's film away from him but let him see Gone with the Wind" "Once" "Whoever controls film, controls the future." "There is only one future ...the future of the film..." "and he knew that" "He whom they called Gröfaz (grösster Feldherr aller Zeiten )" "The greatest military leader of all time" "ReverentIy by some, with ironic malice by others" "But I know of him that he really was the greatest the greatest fiIm-maker of all time" "That had started during his KarI May period in the doss-house in Vienna" "When he saw the film The Tunnel, he wanted to become like the tunneIIer and burrow magically, fanatically, radically with an iron will under the ocean from Europe to America" "And I watched him talking with Speer about the new architecture of berlin for the year of the victory 1950 and of the Urania cinema with the signs of the zodiac on the cupola and the Last Judgement on the wall" "And I saw him, as Leni RiefenstahI prepared Triumph of the Will ...with the big Nazi gathering as the setting of a film his only lasting monument apart from the newsreels of his war" "What did the masses ever make after the demoniacal creen was condemned that was better filmed than tha uniforms and marching always in the same rhythm:" "left, two, three, four and after Rühmann's Quax and willy BirgeI's Riding for Germany?" "I saw him watching John Ford's work the great pioneer epics Westerns, with their many graves and battles with the Red Indians" "The great operettas of Iife" "How he loved John Wayne." "And I saw him fighting for Greta Garbo" "And how he wanted to fetch MarIene Dietrich back to Germany" "Again and again he watched the films, six, eight times, one after the other shot by shot, frame by frame, to remember them" "Then I saw him stopping everything at the beginning of the war never watching any feature films again only the newsreels, all alone, before they could be shown publicly" "A war made solely for him alone to be viewed as a film inside his bunker" "AII that I watched  I , Section Leader with the Führer ...ElIerkamp, projectionist in the chancellery and in the Berghof, above Berchtesgaden, ObersaIzberg at the foot of the great GöII, near the Watzmann and Königssee" "Now managing a booth at the October festival in Munich" "Am I porno producer Koberwitz, near the railway station?" "Or host Koberwitz  in 1923?" "Who am I?" "Just imagine a gathering of 1923 unchanged to this day..." "They are enacting the scene of that period forced to do it in repentence, in the historical place a sort of Oberammergau votive offering" "The children are there and their children's children each playing a part, interchangabIe parts we hear the carriages the voices, the laughter the waiting, the work, the mourning the catharsis composed of fear and pity" "1923." "Here and now" "Germany must blot out the shameful stain of versailles must do away with the humiliations inflicted by her enemies" "Germany needs a new authority" "There a three different forms of authority" "The traditional rule of Kaiser WiIhelm II has led to nothing" "We capituIated with him, we were humiliated" "The rule of the bigwigs and the clergy is over" "A rational authority with a thin-blooded legality will not rejuvenate Germany" "Germany needs a charismatic authority" "You will live to see it" "Germany needs a man of the people carried by the ligitimate will of all" "Germany, our nation, must redeem Europe" "Our people must prove it is capable of removing the stain of shame through a charismatic leader who comes from among them, not a senile patriarch ...not someone withering in the ascetism of a sterile bureaucrat" "Only through a young, radiant leader who can bring out our best can we redeem ourselves can we redeem Germany can we redeem Europe" "Redemption" "It is only possible through authority through one man, one leader who rises from the morass, from the humiliations from the deprivations and disappointments" "And that man will lead us" "That man will fulfil our destiny" "He will be the end of our historical development which began with the tribal chiefs and led to rationalism, Iegitimacy through legality" "Charisma, the rule of feelings the rule of free pathos the rule of creativity, order and discipline" "That will be the mission of our people and for you, and you, and you" "That will be the future of our fatherland and remain the development for Europe" "The Indo-Christian calendar is not right" "The year 77 is the year zero" "Venus, Queen of Heaven, has declared war on Lucifer, God of the Earth" "Rise!" "The Judgement is nigh!" "Ye shall reap what ye sow;" "what ye choose, ye shall receive" "The secret of Judaism and its God must finally be solved" "Finish with the hair-raising nonsense of the old Testament legend of the Creation" "And with all the fairy-taIes that Adam and Eve were Jewish" "And that they were the progenitors of mankind" "And with "original sin", which has subjected mankind to priesterly rule" "The same goes for the nonsense that hitler was of Jewish origin that his father was a rabbi in Graz, name of SchickIgruber" "And the senseless contention that Jesus was a circumcised Jew" "hitler is not dead" "He exists in the universe from whence he was deposited on Earth as a foundling" "His parents sheltered him and gave him the Name adolf" "At the climax of the battle for the chancellery in berlin world police UFOs transport HitIer and Bormannto the universe" "Before a new era can begin, another catastrophe will come" "This time not by flood, but by fire" "AII the stockpiled atomic bombs will be exploded by world police UFOs" "After the global catastrophe paradise will be restored, as it was before the biblical flood" "(HitIer) 41,000 Party members, then 62,000 then 78,000, 90,000, 137,000 today another 140,000" "It's just great, so why wait?" "Make a date from dawn till late" "The world's bewitched, there's only the rumba" "Just take hold, young or old, you start off cold, then grow bold" "Do what you're told, do the rumba" "Hop to the tune, dance like an loon, though your steps are misbegotten" "For all the world is crazy, kid and the crisis is soon forgotten" "The parties are once quarrelled, too, now bill and coo, but only you just stand around with a clue" "Come on and rumba, just we two" "The rumba's the dance that's new" "I'm in a hall that I've never been before" "In the midst of strangers:" "poor, careworn people workers, soldiers, officers, students" "I hardly notice how suddenly somebody stands up there and begins to speak" "HesitantIy, as if trying to express things to big for mere words" "Then, suddenly, a torrent of speech is unleashed" "I am captivated, I listen" "The man up there speaks faster and faster" "It is as if a light was suddenly shining above him" "Honour!" "Work!" "The flag!" "What do I hear?" "still such a thing among these people whom God has abandoned?" "The audience begins to glow" "Rays of hope illuminate their careworn, grey faces" "One of them gets up and lifts his clenched fist high" "Next to him sits an old officer who cries like a small boy" "I am getting hot and cold" "I don't know what is happening to me" "I feel as if I heard a thunder of cannon" "MistiIy, I see a few soldiers suddenly rising; they shout Hurrah!" "But nobody takes any notice of them The man up there speaks" "What was living inside me for years suddenly becomes clear and assumes tangible form; a revelation" "Ladies and gentlemenl The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny" "In the midst of the ruins, one man stands up and hoists the flag high" "suddenly there are no more strangers around me" "We are all brothers" "I'm walking, no I'm being driven to the rostrum" "There I stand for a long time and look into the face of that man" "That is no speaker, that is a prophet!" "Sweat is running in rivulets from his forehead" "Then glowing stars of his eyes light up his grey, pale face" "His fists are clenched" "Words and sentences thunder like the Last Judgement" "I no longer know what I am doing." "It is as if I've lost my senses" "I am shouting Hurrah!" "Nobody is surprised by it" "The man up here looks at me for a moment" "It is a command" "From that moment on I feel reborn" "I know where my path leads to." "The path to maturity" "I seem to be intoxicated" "I only know that i gripped with my hand on the pulsating hand of a man" "This was a wow for life" "And my eyes sank into two big, blue stars" "Imagine a Baroque castle or the Bechstein villa on the ObersaIzberg or Wahnfried in Bayreuth or the Bürgerbräu in Munich" "Everybody is waiting the sleeping Beauty, Arthur, ParsifaI, Siegfried" "1923, the world is waiting for a hero" "RationaIism, that wiIl-o'-the-wisp that deliberately only illuminates and accepts those sections of reality which do not contradict "experience"and the rules of thought" "It is only a modern European local madness a temporary predjudice an intermezzo in the reign of the intellect a crude superstition which will soon collapse amidst the raucous, derisive laughter of the Orient and Asia" "I have fulfilled my task." "Do your duty, Europe belongs to you" "(Man of History. 1923." "In th manner of Max Weber)" "I am not interested in power that general influence that men of letters exert" "I want authority, a concrete leadership of humanity" "I want to see how men react to me ...how they delegate me, change me" "I will want an adjutant." "Authority is sensuous" "Authority is blood, authority is life" "Authority is self-reaIization" "Authority is feeling...feeling anew" "Authority is Eros, an inexhaustible Eros and which takes in the weak people the Eros of authority, the Eros of leadership, the Eros of power of decay, of the body of force" "I am you and you are I" "I've got you, and whoever recognizes this the charismatic leader, from wherever he comes" "...from below or from above, he will have the weakest people behind him" "He will receive a mass mandate from the women" "He will get the women's vote" "He will have it" "Authority, Eros body, woman" "( GoebbeIs ) Führer, command!" "We follow!" "( A text by FriedeI)" "Innumerable stars are wandering through the endless depths od the universe" "Radiant thoughts of God" "They are all happy, because God wants the world to be happy there is only one among them who doesn't share this fortune" "Has God forgotten that star?" "Or has he bestowed on him the highest glory by giving him the choice to rise by his own strength" "We don't know" "We are only a tiny fraction in the history of this star" "(Based on The Futurist Manifesto." "italy. 1909 )" "We sing of the love of danger, crime, action and sex" "We love the motor-car, which is more beautiful than Nefertiti" "We want the beauty of the struggle, we want aggression and war sole hygiene of the world; blood and earth, madness, sun" "We want to sing of anarchy for which one dies, and scorn for woman by man" "We will destroy the museums, the libraries academies of all kinds, as weIl as moraIism and feminism" "If prayer joins us with God then speed is our prayer" "We shall kneel on the rails..." "It is intoxication of speed which involves us with the deity in the destroyed cities and houses and men a vast arena after the next war for our ceremonies of the new happiness" "I greet the whole of the German people, at the front and at home in town and country" ""Fight and Work", that is our watchword for the New Year and over its portals we shall write for our fighting and working people the words of Friedrich Nietzsche.:" ""You walk the paths of greatness"" "That shall become your supreme courage:" "What is most gentle in you must become the toughest" "Whoever spares himself will pay for such weakness in the end" "Praise what makes you hard" "( GoebbeIs, 31st December, 1942 )" "(HitIer's spirit by the grave of Richard Wagner)" "It was here that the spiritual sword was forged which made us victorious" "There was nobody else who could or would take the role I wanted" "So they called for me" "First the bourgeoisie, then the military rubbing their grubby hands with joy and also for the defence of their honour do you think I didn't notice it?" "then the industrialists, to drive out BoIshevism from whose leader Lenin I Iearned a Iot and whose leader StaIin could be secretly admired" "Then the petty bourgoisie, the workers for whom I couId achive much" "And the youth, to whom I gave a purpose and the students, who needed me and the intellectuals... who felt liberated from the Jewish mafia of friends and foes and the foreign countries, glad to have calm in Europe... with strength and solemnity" "And one has to consider for how many people  I gave a worthwhile content to their lives..." "I gave them what they placed in me what they wanted to hear and to do, ans which they didn't dare" "I did it and commanded it for them because it concerned all of them, not me and Germany, yes, which I really loved, in my own way, of course" "As I always said, didn't I?" "They hate me when I'm near, you see?" "How could I, the artist have conducted a war without hatred of the Jews?" "What would I have been without my music and architecture without my Rienzi, the source of everything without my blindness in PasewaIk, where I resolved to become a politician?" "Without the rejection by the Vienna Academy which led me on to write Mein Kampf?" "Without the collapse of Germany without VersaiIles, which taught me to speak?" "it wouId be Munich and Landsberg, the prison with the abortive putsch before that" "Everything still anarchic, lawless" "And what would you be without the persecution of the Jews without the readiness for sacrifice whichwe had to offer?" "I'm not responsible for the decline in standards or the limitless cruelty which technology gave me" "Yes, I am the bad consience of the democratic government ...perverse, as they say now" "I made a cruel cIean-up in the pigsty of history which secretly all of them wanted, but nobody dared" "If only you knew the seIf-controI and strength I needed for decisions" "I, who who was much more vaciIlating than ...a typical product of Vienna of the turn of the century how I had to make myself hard and relentless facing a task which had to be done" "An Austrian civil servant's son, with experience of the doss-house" "I know, I shall be elected the greatest man of all time or perish, cursed by all mankind and damned in all eternity" "Am I not the Iast in the line of the great creators who in monumental repression of sex and their private life ...achieved their work with no mercy to themselves like Leonardo and MicheIangeIo?" "They weren't easygoing" "Beethoven, Wagner..." "well, perhaps Mozart was, but he wasn't to my taste" "Yes, just listen to me stick it out, ladies and gentlemen" "I am a human being wth two eyes and ears, Iike you and if you prick me, do I not bleed?" "I, too." "I am one of you, too i was and I am the end of your most secret wishes the legend and reality of your dreams" "We must finally win through" "Finality?" "Nightmares?" "Not by a Iong shot" "If I consult the goddess of history, whom I know as none of you do" "If you reject me, you reject the masses" "eternally, your brother, hitler" "Therefore, I pray to the Almighty to preserve our Führer in good health and full vigour and gladness in his decisions" "( GoebbeIs, 30th January, 1943 )" "The time must come" "We dead are now awakening" "But not in whitish shrouds ln black rags we arise" "We emerge from our graves" "Hollow-eyed and all in shreds" "You gentlemen in your parlours" "Forget your laughing now" "There'll be no discount given" "The lives you stole from us" "Have to be settled in cash now" "For once be paid in full" "(The cosmologist )" "We are living in a critcal moment of time" "It has been proved that the moon comes nearer to us as we can see distinctly on days when the air is clear" "The force of gravity will increase" "Then the waters of the ocean will rise in an unabating flood" "They will rise and cover big areas of land and flood over the tropics and surround the highest mountains" "Creatures will be freed more and more from the weight which presses on them" "They will grow." "The cosmic rays will become stronger and stronger" "They influence the genes ans the chromosomes and create mutations" "New races will be created, giant plants and giant animals" "Giant humans" "Only those giants the master race the lords of the earth will have the strength after the battle with the legendary evil dwarfs and sub-humans to stave off the threatened destruction of the world for a thousand year culture... as it once was in the mythical atlantis of Plato" "The new Aryan race, if you wish" "Before the final decline of the magical powers remaining in us" "The new magical orders and rites will be reawakened" "We shall have superhuman powers." "History as we know it will be abolished" "The third eye, a new virility will grow in us" "The new man stands on the threshold" "The new time." "The golden age paradise, saved from the great flood by human strength and concentration the essentials of chastisementand ceremonies" "The German dream of death for a new life afterwards" "Away with the malpractice of false prophets with the selfish prostitution of our most sacred instincts passions and desires from our legends the so-caIIed sociology of dwarfish races" "Destroy what is unworthy exterminate the superstitions of science, technology and false religions" "It concerns the blood-memories of our inner eye" "The soul of our blood becomes the world's conscience hard and merciless through us the savioursof world and cosmos for all time" "The twilight of humanity begins with us" "( A pupil of the world ice theory )" "( A pupil of the world ice theory )" "In this war we must never fall into the stupor of objectivity which has brought much misfortune on the German nation in its history" "When this war started, our eyes were solely turned towards our nation everything to serve her; what is good must be preserved and encouraged" "What is bad must be eliminated and cut off" "With a burning heart and a cool head we must resolve to deal with the problems of this period of the war" "Thus we shall take the path to our ultimate victory which is founded in our belief in the Führer" "( GoebbeIs, SportpaIast, berlin, 18th February, 1943 )" "He expects from us an effort which will put all previous efforts in the shade lf we ever unwaveringly believed in victory then we must do so in this hour of national reflection and inner uplift" "We see it within touching distance;" "all we have to do is grasp it" "We must only summon up the determination to subordinate everything to its service, this is the law of the hour" "And that's why from now on our password must be:" ""Now people rise, and storm break loose!" "'"" "On the 2nd July, 1934  I was sent, with the best wishes of the minesweeper commander to the naval section of the War Ministry in Berlin" "I was to report there and then report to the chancellery" "I travelled with some unease and with mixed feelings from KieI to berlin" "At the War Ministry I was sent to the naval chief-of-staff ...who received me amiable and introduced me to some high officers including admiral Reader and War Minister von BIomberg" "After answering various questions  I was ordered to report to adolf hitler the next day" "Report at 10.00 to SS Oberführer and Adjutant Schaub" "I got up at six, cleaned and brushed my best uniform and was ready at eight to report" "At 09.30 I arrived at WiIheImstrasse waited a moment, drew a deep breath then marched to the chancellery gates" "I was escorted to a courtyard near Hitler's apartment and handed over to the SS-man on duty" "He took me to the SS Escort Commando guardroom" "Two SS-men were playing chess" "They looked at me rather sceptically" "Later a few civilians came and introductions began" "When it became known that I was to be HitIer's valet a general discussion began and several matters were considered" "Some of the people were especially friendly to me" "I Iearned that the Führer was in East Prussia visiting President von Hindenburg to give him full details of the Röhm putsch" "The aircraft was due back in berlin at three" "At last the airport reported:" ""The Führer's aircraft has just landed'"" "The room sprang to life" "almost everyone vanished in a flash" "I asked what their duties were and heard that each looked after a particular place resposibIe for security in the drive, the street, and so on" "I asked someone where l could stand to get a good view of the Führer's arrival" "Just as I went to the door HitIer walked past, less than a metre fom me" "I stood to attention and his deep voice greeted me:" "Heil!" "After half an hour, Adjutant Schaub came in and said to me the Führer was too busy to see me, I should report tomorrow" "I stayed in the guardroom for a bit and got to know nearly everyone including Kempe, who later became HitIer's driver who was very friendly and invited me to his quarters" "Kempe had a small car at his disposal and that evening we went on a tour of berlin" "Two other SS-men came with us..." "I called a halt at midnight, as I had to be wide awake next morning" "So Kempe drove me back to my quarters in the barracks" "It had been a heavy day though I'd not reached my goal" "several more days passed" "On the fifth day, SA Gruppenführer Brückner came and said:" ""Where's that water-rat?" "The Führer is waiting for him'"" "Brückner took me upstairs to the private rooms of the Führer ...asked me to enter, and stayed outside" "Now I was standing alone in the doorway" "The room before me was filled with a soft, subdued light" "Behind a Iong table, covered with papers, books and other things and illuminated by a standard lamp which cast its light in a pool stood, his arms folded, Adolf hitler" "I reported to him:" ""Seaman First-CIass KarI-WiIheIm Krause, First Minesweeper FlotiIIa!"" "During this, hitler came up to me and greeted me with a handshake" "He asked if I knew the reason I was there" "I said yes" "He asked about my background and whether I'd Iike to enter his service" "He asked me, if I was a member of the National socialist Party but before I couId say no, he gave the answer himself:" ""The navy is not permitted any political activity." "Just as weIl"" "They had prepared the room for me in the chancellery and hitler inspected it" "In his presence I had to test the bed for length, as I'm tall and than I received two light- coloured lounge suits and a dark one" "Then, when Hitler was in the garden with some guests, I was ordered to him" "It was just a week earlier, as one of the SS Escorts told me that Hitler had suddenly got up from a similar gathering and gave by telephone the order to shoot the SA leader Röhm" "well, then, now I stood before him" "He took two garden chairs;" "he declined my help, saying:" ""No, leave that to me." "You will have to do this often enough."" "He placed the chairs in the middle of the garden, facing each other" "Then he told me to sit down;" "I sat exactly opposite to him" "He said:" ""You are a sailor and I shall not put you on oath, I rely on you." ""What you observe here concerns no one." "You are responsible only to me."" ""You may receive orders through my adjutant." ""Apart from that, nobody has the right to give you orders."" "I was then responsible for Hitler's personal things: his clothing later for his meals;" "I don't mean the cooking but the serving" "The Berlin household was run by Herr Kannenberg and his wife" "In Munich there was Frau Winter and on the Obersalzberg, firstly HitIer's sister, Frau RaubaI" "The daily routine in berlin remained unchanged in the first year; until 1937, that is" "Before retiring to his really private rooms on the first floor HitIer always told me when to wake him" ""I shall get up at nine-thirty..." ""...but the newspapers must be outside the door by eight"" "Often a handshake" "In the first year, waking was always at nine-thirty" "I answered: "I wish you a restful night."" "He always locked himself in" "His rooms on the first floor of the chancellery consisted of a private study with a library his bedroom and the bath" "In the first year, waking was newspapers and messages were placed on a stool outside the door by the duty SS-man" "Later that became my task;" "then the SS-man woke me, gave me the messages and newspapers which I placed on the stool" "hitler only put his hand outside the door barely opened and he groped for the papers" "The stool had to be in the right place" "In the first years, there was no bell connecting us" "I had to go to his bedroom and knock" "Then say: "Good morning, Führer, it is nine-thirty", for example" "When the bell was put in, I had to press the button three times to ring the bell at the head of his bed" "Then he pressed the button on his bedside table three times" "Only then did I knock an the door and tell him the time of day" "He answered "Thanks", "Thank you", or "Thank you very much"" "From that I'd guess his mood" "rarely did he express any special wish" "After waking him, I went to the kitchen and prepared his breakfast" "Only the milk was heated by the duty cook" "Breakfast was always the same:" "two cups of warm milk as many as ten Leibnitz biscuits and a half bar of bitter chocolate, broken up" "The milk was kept warm with a coffee-heater" "If he had been awakened at nine-thirty the bell would ring at 09.52 or 09.53" "I carried the tray to his bedroom and from there to the library" "He opened the bedroom door" "It was up to me to open the other doors" "Since being awakened HitIer had bathed, shaved and dressed" "He rang the bell when he put on his jacket" "Whatever time he was awakened his toilet always took about twenty minutes" "He shaved hemself, using two razors the second for a final shave" "New blades daily, so he required two blades a day" "He used Hobby-horse lilies'-milk soap, Pieri shaving-cream Arrow-ring skin-cream and Birch-water hair tonic" "He tried another brand, but went back to Birch-water" "He used Pine-needIe bath cubes" "With breakfast, I usually spoke first; sometimes he did" "I said: "Morning, Führer."" "If he was in a bad mood, I just said: "Morning.'"" "then his reply was: "Good morning'", or only "hell'"" "I replied: '"Heil", without adding anything" "He breakfasted standing in the library gIancing through the latest German news agency reports which I took in with the breakfast" "I took the opportunity to submit the menu for luncheon" "The first course was always the dish for his guests" "Then the vegetarian courses from which he would make a selection for himself" "Sometimes he'd request something different, Iike poached eggs" "Regarding the dish for his guests, he would ask:" ""Does the dessert come after that?"" "Breakfast lasted three to five minutes" "Then HitIer went to his official study in the chancellery" "In the first years, we had coffee at the hotel Kaiserhof at four-thirty" "A few security men walked across the WiIhelmpIatz to the hotel" "hitler, with one or two of his aides and I drove to a side entrance where the manager and the security men were waiting to escort us" "There was always a corner table reserved for us" "Göring or GoebbeIs usually attended, but rarely together" "The meetings lasted until about seven, then we went back to the chancellery where everything was being prepared for the evening meal" "During the first years, many actors and opera singers were invited" "The dinner itsseIf was quite informal" "During the meal, I submitted a list of up to half a dozen films which could be shown on that evening;" "German and foreign films" "hitler then decided which films should be screened on that evening" "After dinner and a quick cup of coffee in the smoking room the music room was converted for the film show" "The equipment was exactly the same as in a public cinema" "Films were supplied by the Propaganda Ministry and film distributors" "As many as three films were shown per evening" "If HitIer didn't like one, another has to be substituted immediately" "He broke off the projection saying:" ""Stop!" "Utter rubbish!" "Next, please'"" "Until the war, hitler viewed every German and foriegn film and eventhose films which the Propaganda Ministry had not yet passedfor public showing" "hitler himself then made the decision" "But during the war HitIer looked at nothing but newsreeIs" "The newsreels were shown silent while an adjutant read out the text and Hitler decided on the words;" "often he changed them" "From 1942 onwards, Hitler didn't even look at the newsreels" "But he still listened to records of Franz Lehar and Johann Strauss" "For exampIe:" "The Merry Widow or Die Fledermaus" "After the projection, towards midnight, they returned to the smoking room where the orderlies had arranged a cosy coffee corner in the meantime" "Everybody sat down quite informally and lively discussions started" "AII sorts of alcoholic drinks, coffee, cakes and sandwiches were served here guests even smoked, but not in his immediate vicinity" "Every subject under the sun was discussed, except politics" "Even Iadie's fashions" "One could see that hitler was really a very genial host" "I heard this not only from German visitors, but from foreign guests" "I was usually present and could hear and see everything because I was only one or two metres away from hitler's table" "It usually didn't break up until two or three in the morning" "After the guests had gone, I laid out the latest evening papers and the News Agency bulletins, which HitIer studied closely" "In the meantime a cup of valerian tea and a small bottle of brandy were placed, by me, on his bedside table" "After HitIer had read the papers and latest news, he went to his rooms above" "His daily routine remained the same until 1938" "Until then, we never spent Sunday in berlin, we went to the ObersaIzberg" "We want to see our Führer!" "( Count Ciano's visit to berlin to sign the German-ItaIian Axis Pact. 1 936 )" "We are still overwhelmed by the scene on Wilhelmplatz" "From thousands of voices the Deutschlandlied rose towards heaven" "This song became a solemn vow confirming the action of those who have brought about this alliance" "and now thousands of eyes are turning from the Wilhelmplatz and from the sidestreets across to the Reichs Chancellery, to the door of that balcony" "(Radio Iinkup with all war fronts, 24th December, 1942 )" "This is StaIingrad, here is the volga front" "calling the Lapland front" "We are in the barracks in the Finish forest" "Southern France, our air forces" "This is a military airfield in southern France on Christmas Eve, 1937, hitler had a suprise for me" "He was at his Munich apartment, Prinzregentenstrasse 16" "I was invited to a family celebration and waited impatiently for hitler to release me for the evening" "But he returned to the room where the gifts were laid out to choose one more present" "We then packed it together, squatting on the carpet" "As he held a knot, for a joke I wound the stringround his thumb" "And in return, laughing he tapped me in fun on the back of the neck with his left hand" "He told me to deliver the package, but first to lay out his dinner jacket" "When I Iooked at him incredulously he said: "Yes, my dinner jacket"" "calling Crete once more" "calling the black Sea ports" "This is the Black Sea port on Crimean peninsula" "We ask comrades to join us in the beautiful Christmas carol:" "silent night, holy night" "He asked me to doubIe-check all the preparations the brewing of the punch and that nobody was standing outside the door, as usual and that only one Munich policeman was on duty outside the house" "When he said that, we went quietly downstairs" "We really hurried like thieves through the house to a waiting taxi" "Nobody had noticed us, which pleased Hitler very much" "I was about to take my place next to the driver when hitler pulled me onto the back seat, on his right-hand side" "He whispered to me some destinations, which I passed on to the driver" "So we crossed and recrossed Munich that Christmas Eve travelling from one place to the other ending up at the LuitpoId Cafè" "Rather surprised, I wondered what he wanted there at that hour" "The taxi driver must have been puzzled, he didn't know his passenger" "He was visibly relieved when we paid him off at the LuitpoId Cafè" "The moment he had the money in his hand, he drove off at top speed" "He must have thought we were a couple of madmen" "Perhaps he wasn't quite wrong, because I found in uncanny, too" "Then without going into the Cafè, we walked back to the KönigIicher PIatz" "As I felt responsible for his security, I turned occasionally which made him remark:" ""Come, come walk beside me." "You needn't be afraid because of me." ""Nobody would believe that adolf hitler strolled about Munich alone."" "Whenever someone passed, he only lowered his head or looked aside" "And, really, no one did recognize him we reached our flat in the Prinzregentenstrasse" "On our way, icy sleet began to fall" "He had only supported himself on my shoulder before but finally we walked arm in arm, as he wore new patent-Ieather shoes" "well, somebody must have noticed something" "HimmIer and Rattenhuber who were in charge of the Escort Commando reproached me the next day because I had not informed anybody" "And Himmler gave me orders that in future even if Hitler forbade me, I must report these things to the Escort" "But I never obeyed this order from HimmIer, the Reichsführer SS" "This is Radio Moscow broadcasting in German" "The first month of the New Year 1943 ended with the crushing of the Hitlerite forces which were encircled in the western-central district of Stalingrad" "Commanding Vice-Field Marshal of the German army, Paulus his entire staff and a further fifteen generals surrendered" "Astronomers of the University of california in berkeley disovered a galaxy which is the furthest away from us" "This enormous system consisting of over one thousand suns is at a distance of eight miIIiard light years" "The light which reaches us from there was sent on its journey to us at a time when our sun and its planets did not even exist" "3 C 123 appears on photographs as a blurred little spot of irregular shape ...that presumably represents other galaxies of the same group" "The interpretation of the spectoscopic data brought a surprise:" "That object shows the greatest displacement of red of the spectrum which was ever observed in any galaxy" "Therefore, 3 C 123..." "light away from us and is five to ten times bigger than our own milky Way" "In the opinion of Professor Dr. Horst Löb of Giessen 6% of all suns in the universe are circled by planets which could be inhabited by some living beings" "This estimated percentage appears relatively small but the number of inhabited heavenly bodies would still be enormous because there are, roughly estimated, 100 miIliard milky Ways which consist of about fifty miIliard stars each" "If one considers the concept of the infinity of the universe to its logical conclusion one arrives at unreaIity because infinity is nothing but a mathematical expression of unreality" "If one tries to imagine that the milky Way consists of more than a milliard fixed stars many with a diameter greater than the distance between earth and sun and that it does not represent the fixed pole of the cosmos but races at a speed of six hundred kilometres per second a thousand times faster than a shell, to some place or other then the assumption that all this could have anything to do with reality is reduced to a mere fantasy" "The picture becomes even more unreal if one follows the latest conjecture.. ." "...that the sum of all conglomerations of stars forms a close finite system in the shape of a rotation- ellipsoid then one cannot disregardthe idea that it is nothing but one of the molecules from which greater bodies are constructed" "The universe as a molecule" "The molecule as an universe" "What did Stifter write about the Jew Abdias and his blind daughter Ditha?" ""If there are humans upon whom such a hall of disasters faIIs..." ""...that they finally just stand..." ""...and let the hall beat down onto them..." ""...then there must be people and stars, ar at Ieast whole continents..." ""...which are plagued by misfortunes with such persistence..." ""...that it seems that all the Iawsof nature have been reversed..." ""...in order to bring calamity to them alone." ""In that way, the ancients arrived at the concept of fate."" "And we to that of destiny for which some dirty their trousers in eagerness to grab at their fate and burn their fingers" "If all goes well, it's valiant." "But mostly it ends miserably" "Faced with fate, it sometimes seems to us..." "like an invisible arm reaching out from the clouds and using us in incomprehensible ways, for which we then bear the guilt." "End of Part 2 "A GERMAN DREAM'"" "Faith moves montains" "The faith that must be in all of us to work and to struggle;" "for the nation, for the Reich" "( GoebbeIs ) 30th January 1943" "(Erich Weinert, broadcasting from Moscow, 12th july, 1943 )" "Germany won't be broken down" "So many ask, with worried frown:" ""What fate for German land and town?"" "Because the war which it began it just can't win, it never can" "Who's bothered here, who asks the score?" "Hey, soldier!" "Did you want the war?" "German soldiers!" "We now bring you an actual recording of the manifesto issued by the National Committee of "Free Germany" read by its President, Erich Weinert" "The National Committee considers itself entitled and obligated in this hour of destiny to speak in the name of the German people" "Hitler is leading Germany to destruction" "The defeats of the past seven month are without precedent in German history" "Today, Germany itself has become a theatre of war" "Time is short, quick action is imperative" "Whoever continues to follow Hitler from fear, dependency or blind obedience is a coward, helping to drive Germany to national catastrophe" "For our people and fatherland!" "Against Hitler and his war!" "For immediate peace!" "For the salvation of the German people!" "For a free, independent Germany!" ""The End of a Winter's tale"" "and the final Victory of Progress" "Of course I am an inquisitor" "The Grand Inquisitor of the German Empire" "We have found our devil and know how to deal with the witches and renegades of this time ...and of the human race" "Whether the other nations live in luxury or perish or starve interests me only in so far as we need them as slaves for our culture lt's one ot those things that are easily said:" ""The Jewish race is being exterminated, that's in our Party programme" ""Elimination of the Jews, extermination. " We'll do it, it's a minor detail" "Then they all come along eighty million worthy Germans and every one of them has a decent Jew, although all the others are scum" "We have a moral right, a moral obligation to our race to kill that race which wanted to kill us" "But we have no right to enrich ourselves by one fur coat, by one mark by one cigarette, one watch, or by anything else; no right because we don't wish to stamp out the bacillus yet catch it and die of it" "(HimmIer, Posen; 4th october, 1943 )" "( German broadcast, 6th july, 1944 )" "The time is 22.02" "The Atlantic Front" "During the past night the enemy launched the long expected attack on Western Europe" "Soon the beginning of the operation it was obvious that the British and American objectives are to secure the areas of Caen, Caretan and Cherbourg... I know I am always being attacked by many people who say that our actions are un-Germanic" "I feel that for some people "Germanic" has only one meaning:" "the way a jolly, good-humoured German lets himself be bamboozled until he falls flat on his face;" "but that would be un-Germanic I'm sorry, but I consider it right and I believe it is right" "First we had to get rid of our main opponents" "The people plotting against us" "The Polish intelligentsia had to go, there was no other way I already knew the clever speeches and advice given to me:" "that our soldiers would be harmed by such measures I believe that not one of the gentlemen who gave me such advice was himself present during the execution l can tell you, it's dreadful for a German to be forced to watch that" "That's how it is, and if it weren't so dreadful for us we would no longer be Germans" "It is as dreadful as it was necessary and it will remain so in many cases yet to come lf we haven't the nerve now those bad nerves will be passed on to our sons and grandsons and we can repeat the political madness of the last thousand years..." "..for another hundred years" "We haven't the right to do that because if we are living in the present if we are educated by Adolf Hitler and have the luck to live in Adolf Hitler's state and work for Germany under Adolf Hitler's guidance then we'd better not be weak" "It must always be that such an execution remains the most difficult task for our men" "That's how it must always be" "They must never get soft but do it with clenched teeth" "This is required above all" "( CBS reporter, allied invasion, 6th july, 1944 )" "( CBS reporter, allied invasion, 6th july, 1944 )" "The diesel engine stalls" "The people are waiting in the gas chambers, in vain" "They can be heard sobbing and crying" "A dozen times Wirth Iashes the face of the Ukrainian who is supposed to help start the diesel" "After two hours and forty-nine minutes the engine starts" "Twenty-five minutes pass" "Yes, many are dead now" "There's a little window which gives a glimpse of the chamber" "After twenty-eight minutes, few are left alive" "At last, after thirty-two minutes all are dead" "On the other side, men of the labour commando open the wooden doors" "In the chamber, the dead stand pressed together like pillars of stone" "There's no room to fall over or lean forward" "Our men have participated in executions have endured much more than their victims, strange as it may sound" "From the psychological aspect they have gone through hell" "Most of you know what it means when a hundred corpses are laid out or five hundred or a thousand" "To have stuck it out and, apart from a few human weaknesses remained decent nevertheless that has made us hard" "It is a glorious leaf of German history which has never been written and never will be written" "I can tell you, it is dreadful and horrifying for a German to be forced to watch that" "But if it weren"t so dreadful and horrifying for us we would no Ionger be Germans" "And as dreadful as it was, it was also necessary and it will be necessary in many cases with which we'II have to deal" "One mustn't view things from one's narrow personal viewpoint" "One must view things from the viewpoint of the sum total of Germans" "One must sacrifice oneself" "We repeat the important communiqué... ..broadcast by all stations this afternoon" "An attempt was made on the Führer's life." "The Führer is unharmed" "( German broadcast, 21st july, 1944 )" "The Jewish question in the countries occupied by us will be settled by the end of the year" "Remnants, individual Jews, may be left in hiding here and there" "The question of non-Jews married to Jews, and the question of haIf-Jews will be examined reasonably and then resolved" "AII people find it natural and gratifying when their district is free of Jews" "AII German people, with a few exceptions are aware that we could never stick out the bombing and the fourth and possibly a fifth or sixth year of the war could not be endured if that corrosive plague were still in our community" "The sentence: all Jews have to be exterminated a mere few words, gentlemen, easily said" "But for those who carry it out, it is the hardest and most difficult task" "Of course, they are Jews, they are only Jews" "But how many people, even Party members have written to me, or to somebody else saying that all Jews are despicable, of course but their friend is the one decent Jew and must not be harmed" "Judging by the number of those applications  I dare to assert that there were more decent Jews in Germany than were nominally existent" "We have so many millions of people in Germany who all have their famous decent Jew... that the number exceeds the total number of Jews" "A handful of criminal elements is being ruthlessly exterminated" "We are settling accounts with them, as we national socialists usually do" "The time of Adolf hitler will give a new start to Aryan-Germanic humanity" "It will not be the glow of the evening sun, but a new blossoming" "Our Earth is not all that old and there is still a long way to the great world catastrophe so it cannot exist without the creative atlantic Nordic race" "hitler is our Germanic saviour, the human god the Aryan figure of light on the cosmic struggle of ideologies the spirit of German beings, predestined for the world" "That struggle of the ideologies is like the battle wit the Huns during the mass migration like the fight with islam in the middle ages when it was not a war of religions but of races" "Our task is the breeding of a new humanity because the grail of Aryan blood has been tainted throughout centuries by the proletarian, the bolshevik, the sub-human" "It threatens to make barren the otherwise healthy womb of our people I thank providence and my creator I have been preserved." "My life is but concern and work for my people" "We had the right, the moral obligation towards our people to destroy that people which wanted to destroy us but we have not the right to enrich ourselves with one fur coat, one watch or one mark or one cigarette" "I shall never tolerate an abcess here, or quietly watch one develop but if one should develop, we shall burn it out together" "But, all things considered, we haven't suffered any damage in our character, our soul, our substance" "loyalty, obedience, performance of duty, faith those are the advance guard of our blood theory" "I was extraordinarily interested to hear recently that Buddhist monks carry a little bell on their evening walks through the woods to warn any animals of their approach so that the beasts can move away and come to no harm" "But our people trample on every snail worms are aquashed, prizes are awarded for the killing of sparrows and children are incited to murder harmless animals for greed" "Of course, in war time I cannot take any decisive steps" "I'd be misunderstood" "But after the war I'lI issue strict regulations protecting animals" "schools will systematically educate children to love animals and animal protection societies will be given policing powers" "Like a person who has been absent from his home for a long time and is welcomed on the threshold by his wife children and friends so he is met, when he leaves this life one day on the threshold of the next life by his deeds, Iike friends greeting their dear friend" "And what about the bad deeds?" "The thought that everything will be rockoned up is frightening" "It seems to me that divine mercy is preferable to such a reckoning" "But in life you have to pay for everything" "Why shouldn't we be presented with such a bill, too?" "You can settle it, even if you'Il need more than one life to do so" "But aren't you often frightened, Herr Reichsführer when you consider some of our deeds which will be set against you one day?" "One mustn't view things from one's narrow personal viewpoint" "One must view things from the viewpoint" "One must sacrifice oneself, even though it be difficult" "One mustn't think only of self" "Of course, it is more pleasant to tend the flower-beds than the rubbish heaps and refuse collections of a state but without such work the flower-beds will not flourish" "Apart from that, I always try to strike a balance for myself by helping und trying to do good whenever I can such as helping the opressed as eliminating injustices" "Do you think my heart is in all those things which have to be done for reasons of state?" "I wish I could be Minister of culture, Iike Rust and dedicate myself to positive tasks" "I often consider whether I shouldn't suggest to the Führer after the war that the post of Reichsführer SS be separated from that of Chief of police" "This would accord with the Führer's line of thought as he has appointed the Reichsführer SS to control the Fortified Farms and the colonization of Eastern Territories" "Perhaps the post could be combined with that Minister of Culture" "That wouldn't be a bad solution at all  I couId immerse myself entirely in those positive tasks" "But our present situation, at home and abroad forced us to combine the post of Reichsführer SS with the post of Chief of Police" "That, too, is a karma  I must come to terms with and turn it to my own favour" "(HimmIer, Posen, 4th October, 1943 )" "Most of you know what it means when a hundred corpses are laid out or five hundred or a thousand" "And to have stuck it out and, apart from a few human weaknesses" "...remained decent nevertheless that has made us hard it is a page of glory never mentioned, never to be mentioned" "I was astonished to hear so frankly from HimmIer how closely his religious feelings were bound up with his personal fate" "I was about to ask a further question, but HimmIer stopped me" ""Wait, I shall read you something entirely different'"" "He took the Bhagavadgita, a book he particularly loved and read the following passage, which I made a note of" "Whenever humanity's sense of right and truth has vanished and injustice rules the world, I will be born anew." "That is the law I have no desire for gain" ""That paragraph fits our Führer perfectly", Himmler declared" ""He was given to the German people in their greatest peril..." ""... when they had plumbed the depths" ""He is one of those beacons which appear in the Germanic world..." ""... when its body mind and soul are in the pit of despair" ""Goethe was such a beacon in the sphere of the mind" ""Bismarck was such a beacon in the sphere of politics" ""But the Führer dominates all spheres:" ""political,cultural and military" ""He is predestined in the karma of the Germanic world..." ""...to wage war against the east..." ""...and save the Germanic races of the world" ""He has become one of those great beacons"" "Himmler expressed these thoughts with great solemnity and intensity" "Now it became clear why he had sometimes described Hitler to me as a man who would be worshipped as a Christ in centuries to come" "He saw in him not only a figure which, in the struggle against the church it was expedient to imbue with a religious aura but as a figure from other worlds who always bring help in times of distress echoing the theme of the Knights of the Holy Grail and Parsifal" "If Himmler lives in such a world of fantasy he must believe that he, too, is the reincarnation of some great German I asked him about that, but he replied defensively:" ""One doesn't like to discuss oneself like that" ""l've given it a lot of thought, but I haven't come to any conclusion"" "I had a long conversation about the last question with Brandt who declared that he knew for certain the Reichsführer considered himself a reincarnation of Heinrich the Lion" "Himmler was the authority on that king and considered Heinrich's eastern settlements a great historical deed" "Himmler's followers called him King Heinrich, or the Black Duke" "He knew about it and rather enjoyed it" "And at the Brunswick celebrations honouring King Heinrich Himmler made a very impressive speech lauding that great man" "Brandt found it quite in order for a man to follow such an exalted example" "And if he goes as far as to identify himself with his idol so much the better" "certainly, there will be a Iot of suffering among the Jews" "But what did the American do in the past?" "The Red Indians, who only wanted to live on their own soil were abominably exterminated" "It is the curse of the great that they have to step over corpses to create new life" "We must create a new life and the soil must be free from contamination, or ti will not thrive" "I shall have to carry a heavy burden" "Retribution stalks implacable throughout world history" "It is a historical fact that the empire of the Jews has cost millions of dead many more millions than all the Jews living in the world" "Those dead cry out for vengeance" "Even the Jewish "An eye for an eye, a toth for a tooth" means vengeance" "originally, I had something else in mind but the necessity of vengeance and seIf-defence has overwhelmed me" "It is the old, tragic conflict between inclination and obligation" "I am experiencing now how terrible that can be" "please leave me alone now" "Those exertions are too much for you, Herr Reichsführer" "I need from you forty-two Dutch, sentenced to death and three Estonians, four Letts, one BeIgian two Swedes, three Frenchmen and those Russians" "You believe in the immortality of the soul in the blood" "As you are King Heinrich, so Crown Prince RudoIf atoned in reincarnation for all the sins of CaIiguIa through his own emotional torment" "How can you, as Himmler, repend your cruel deeds unless you start now?" "Be grateful;" "I take you seriously" "You are mistaken if you believe that the victims' screams affect my men" "That is not the root of the trouble" "They suffer through their virtues, their severity their faith to the nation their comradeship, their being Prussian" "They can hardly see it through" "But they have learned to remain strong loyal to their oath to Germany" "Germany is hitler and hitler is the world" "AII homosexuals will be sent for trial by SS courts then sent to concentration camps and shot trying to escape" "Sixty thousand, including Jews were removed from the SS in 1935" "( Albert Camus, 24th August, 1944 ) ...the joyful faces of the Parisiens ans especially the Resistance men..." " Make the stars favourable to us." " I can do nothing about that" "You'II save thousands" "AII concentration camps are due to be liquidated at the end and we shall finish the war sooner if HimmIer renounces this plan" "world history is in your hands" "world history is determined by the stars and you want to do business with the stars, business with history business wih humanity" "We live in a time when business deals are quite human compared with the ideas where one corruption can save a thousand lives" "We must seize our chance" "Which country afterwards, what passport, which aircraft, how many dollars?" "I have friends everywhere, but the prisoners must be freed first" "You must tell HitIer my version of the future, "as the stars foretell"" "The stars don"t prevent us negotiating" "One doesn't haggle with the stars" "They don't lend themselves to human corruption" "I make no deals with truth with the art of the laws of heaven..." "We must be strong enough to realize it" "Our limitations and the serenity to understand the laws of the stars" "The stars above us and the moral law within us" "( Albert Camus, 24th August, 1944 )" "The ruling class has failed in its duty and lacked intelligence and heart" "We want to have, without delay, a workers' popular democracy ln this alliance, democracy will provide the principles of liberty and the people the faith and courage without which liberty..." "Today is our meatless day" "In any case, I cannot bear to see an animal suffer" "I can't stand the smell of blood, You'II laugh about that" "Thank you for the book Arthasastra" "A textbook for cruelty..." "and falsehood" "well... those Indians" "It contains everything a statesman requires of wisdom" "The four castes." "The four sections of Iife" "A hierarchy, as among the planets, otherwise everything would collapse" "I am a Buddhist." "Yes that as weIl" "astrology is a royal art" "AII my big actions are undertaken at certain phases of the moon" "It's an old farming rule" "I believe in good and bad spirits" "I'm sorry that I had to imprison you, but it had to stop" "Concentration camp for all astrologers until the end of the war" "Like Frederick the Great's order that all sermons were to extol his war as a sacred and just cause" "What are StaIin and Eisenhower doing?" "A crusade for freedom!" "There you are!" "And ChurchiII, the things he said, that old cynic" "But that "blood and tears" was good" "That is always effective and true" "So one wins and writes memoirs" "( A German broadcast from Stettin, 28th February, 1945 )" "Enemy shells are whistling into the city from across the River Oder" "Large holes are torn in the roofs of buildings stones and debris crash down onto the pavements" "Our batteries reply with a roar" "On the roads out of the city refugees are assembled with their belongings" "Some have only a rucksack" "Military police stop every vehicle and ensure that it is fully occupied" "Lorries and carts are piled high with the last possessions of our people enduring hardship to to escape the advancing enemy" "(B.B.C. in German, 21 st October, 1944 )" "The city of Aachen no Ionger exists" "That is the price for prolonging the war" "( German broadcast ) The Reichsführer SS will command the people's army" "Now let us examine the birth date of a high favourite" "This is the command post of the First Anti-aircraft Division, Berlin" "He will betray everything and flee, but he will be captured" "You speak of SS-Obergruppenführer Fegelein." "Be careful" "You had an accident on the 9th December?" "Correct." "That day I drove the car myself." "It was dark" "I lost the way and crashed forty metres into a railway cutting" "Onto the rails as a train was approaching, you nearly didn't escape" "As you know, I found where MussoIini was being held captive" "Another one" "He will not die by a murderer's hand" "A woman will take a certain part in his end in april '45." "hitler" "I couId arrest him without difficulty" "I'lI send Berger with a tank division;" "the rest is easy" "A woman, in april '45?" "I don't know" "The next sheet, please" "A number of interesting constellations" "Mars in the sixth field, that means active in war, as commander of an army" "Then the favourable aspect of Jupiter towards the Moon Uranus and Mars, signifies a steep rise in his fortunes but nothing can change the fatal end" "He betrays his best friend" "Death comes by no one else's hand, nor heroic deed, nor sharp weapon..." "You are speaking of me" "Born 7th October, 1900" "calculated time of birth 04.28 and 34 seconds, the sign of Pisces" "Under royal protection, father in royal services a man with a continously vaciIIating character professionally in the sign of Saturn" "Position achieved not through his own abilities but through constellations;" "of the planets, I would say" "guilt to be borne through seven generations of family and people" "You have a second brother." "Unborn." "Dead." "Aborted" "Grave respiratory illness" "physical deficiencies: a weak heart and stomach" "Strong attachment to your mother" "guilt complex because of the weakness, wants to remain a little boy" "Lack..." "Yes, lack of wiIl-power subservience, dependence on others and courage" "A tendency to conquer everything" "Wants to be one of the elite;" "much seIf-Iove" "Inclined to masturbate viriIe but impotent, the Prodigal Son type" "Suffers from cheerIessness" "Longing to be a strict father" "I know the secret reproaches, from Heydrich, for example that I'm not measuring up to my tasks" "That I'm too flabby, unmiIitary an intellectual dreamer with a Germany fixation" "Heydrich was different, stern, as hard as steel and played the violin to perfection;" "he once played Mozart for me" "His Jewish heritage always came through and then he became merciless evil, ice-coId" "I didn't need that effort" "At night I see the dead" "whole legions;" "long processions of nameless dead" "CharIemagne riding from the Untersberg the crusaders of Barbarossa, King Heinrich and I myself" "That's bad, I know" "We must stick together, you, Kersten, ScheIIenberg and I" "What shalI I do?" "hitler will hear about it" "The stars know everything." "What shalI I do?" "(HimmIer, Posen, 4th October, 1943 ) I don't give a damn for Russians or Czechs" "Whatever the nation have in good blood of our sort we shall take; if necessary by abducting the children" "All in all, even if we say we have done this most difficult task out of love for our people we have done no harm to ourselves not to our selves, our soul or our character" "The stars cannot conduct the negotiations for us, Herr HimmIer" "If you ask me SchelIenberg should go to Sweden and switzerland to negotiate" "AII concentration camps must be surrendered, not blown up" "The decision is yours, Reichsführer SS and Minister of the Interior" "You have freedom of choice" "Yes, it must be discussed with Eisenhower, he reads our newspapers" "He knows us and what we are fighting for" "Patton searches for the Spear of Longinus" "The grail, we have it for eternity" "A democracy and the grail..." "impossible" "I shall not die in battle" "Go and tell everybody, I am King Heinrich" "The black Knight, as I was then and am now" "I have given Kersten all concentration camps, to save them from destruction" "In writing, my personal negotiation with the world Jewish Congress" "That means betraying the Führer, who says:" ""If we can't revolutionize our country and the world at least our enemies must not triumph." That's logical" "He signed, I mean Kersten with the words: "In the name of humanity"" "I had to hesitate." "Am I inhuman?" "And laughed" "We are always misunderstood" "We happen to have a different view of man and mankind which has nothing to do with humanism and the Chritian God" "socialism, yes, but quite different" "We had to sacrifice, and that is secret our great couterpart, the Jews, the chosen people, sacred, rebellious through the other chosen, sacred people of the Germans in the most enormous battIe-rits of the present and future" "You will see, to make a new man by it a proud, victorious and decent peasant" "It is over" "Over is a stupid word" "I also believe in the immortality of the soul" "And still I don't understand anything the curse of the universe is certain for us" "The laughter of the gods as a vengeance" "The soul, certainly" "The soul dwells in the blood for ever and we are its awakener" "Can one perish and lose after so many deeds for immorality?" "( GoebbeIs, 24th December, 1944 )" "Onwards, over the graves!" "The dead have stronger armies than those we have on land or sea" "They marched before us." "They left us in the din of battle" "When the bells ring for a victorious peace, they will return to us" "More than to all the living, we owe them the Reich" "That is the only demand they left behind" "We have to fulfil it" "Let us keep our hands and hearts ready because soon, as the poet says the world will soon renew itself, like a newborn child" "( GauIeiter GiesIer reciting Dietrich Eckart, 8th November, 1944 )" "Storm!" "Ring the bells from tower to tower" "Ring till the sparks begin to shower lt seems that Judas conquers the land" "Ring till the bell-ropes are bloody red" "Ring the storm-bell, make the earth quake with thunder of the revenge to take" "Woe to the people still sreaming in bed" "Germany, awake!" "walls are beautiful things" "They tell tales" "You can hardly imagine that" "I've seen a Iot, I can tell you a Iot" "But you woudn't know, you're still young, as my father always said" "I've been through heaven and hell, but my heart was always with me" "Before, we were still all together" "There was still something like public spirit" "As for films they had some taste,good stories for the people" "We made a Iot of money" "The only public today is the lonely masturbator" "The things you see!" "I couId tell you a tale or two" "But you're still young" "The Heroes Square in Vienna, what a film!" "I showed it myself at the BeIIaria Cinema in 1938" "Everything a gigantic beer garden" "Yes, we're from Lichten Vale" "And we like to drink a glass" "No scroungers, we pay on the nail" "But it must be wine with class" "Not shandy, or mixed-up toddy" "Only best wine can we pass" "To refresh our mind and body lt must be a wine with class" "I wouldn't have liked to have missed that time" "I'm a victim, an idealist" "Look at me, I'm not the man I was" "The eyes...the hair...the figure..." "I've seen too much." "I couId tell you, but you're still young" "What do you know about that?" "(HitIer, Munich, 8th November, 1943 ) I wish to say something to those people who speak of religion I, too, am religious,:" "profoundly religous I believe that providence weights up a man and those who do not pass the test and who break down are not destined by providence for something greater" "That is one of the necessities of nature" "After a selection, only the strongest are left and I whish to state that quite calmly lf my own people were to break down in such a test I would not shed a tear, they would have merited nothing better" "That would be people's destiny, as deserved" "But I will never believe that because, thank God, I know the German people not from the politicians, the industrialists, the "intelligentsia'" but, thank God, I got to know the ordinary people and those masses are healthy, thoroughly healthy" "In the mornings, a deep silence reigned over HitIer's Berghof" "They asked me not to take a bath before midday because the noise travelled through the concrete building and the Führer needed rest in the mornings as he went to bed late" "Everything was like a graveyard" "I tiptoed to my breakfast" "He rarely came down to breakfast, and when he did it was with Eva, of course" "He drank only two cups of milk or bitter cocoa" "Eva asked for strong coffee and butter" "Only towards midday when the sun was over the KehIstein, did the "Grand hotel" awake" "The cars drew up with a screech of brakes in front of the garage" "Big Mercedes drove in here" "The SS guard presented arms" "The most important receptions were with the Duke of Windsor British Prime Minister ChamberIain Lord Rothermere, Schuschnigg, Mussolini BaIbo and Ciano" "We had all the big names here" "Yes, hitler entrusted building operations to the Munich architect Roderick Fick" "He wanted the original Haus WachenfeId to be left untouched, build around" "As a cathedral is built around a chapel" "Calling Leningrad again" "This is the Leningrad front" "Calling the Channel coast" "Channel naval patrols calling" "Calling the Caucasus" "This is the Caucasus front" "Calling the U-boat crews" "This is a U-boat base on the Atlantic coast" "Calling Catania" "This is the Mediterranean and African front" "Calling Zakopane" "Greetings from the military convalescent home in the Tatras" "Calling Crete" "The Führer lived on the second floor" "There's a gallery, with paintings on the walls, instead of windows vases, knick-knacks, statuettes..." "nothing really matching" "obviously gifts from all over the world valuable, perhaps, but somehow they don't go together" "The main hall was particularly impressive" "I admired the wall hangings in particular" "Eva, who always wanted to give the impression of being cultured said they were "genuine GobeIins d'Aubusson"" "Who knows if it is true?" "But I haven't introduced myself" "Oberscharführer Fritz EIlerkamp" "The servant and the one who acted as film projectionist" "Picture it: whenever I gave a film projection then this "GobeIin d'Aubusson" was raised, automatically and the film screen was lowered" "also, opposite the screen panels slid back to reveal the projection ports behind which I stood and ran the show" "The main hall was done up in Gothic style" "I particularly admired a small table inlayed with exquisite mosaic and the fireplace which, according to Eva, was a gift from MussoIini" "Few people ever set eyes on hitler's bedroom" "It was furnished quite simply:" "a wardrobe in Bavarian style a few books scattered about, and a simple bed" "A door led to the balcony to which no one had access except, of course, Eva" "It was said that Hitler loved to gaze at the stars at night I like the woods" "And my heart soars anew" "Where the mountain rose grows" "With the gentians blue" "Number 175" "They always played the same records" "His tea-party guests knew the record numbers by heart" "For instance, if hitler said:" ""Aida, last act, 'The stone has closed above us' " one of the guests would call the catalogue number to me: 175" "hitler's preferences were Wagner Bruckner, Beethoven Strauss, some Songs by Hugo Wolf Verdi and then only operettas" "He had the habit of whistling the tunes, sometimes even singing them" "Eva once pointed out to him that he was whistling out of tune" "Then he said:" ""I'm not out of tune, the composer made a mistake there"" "blood" "hitler developed his own theory about his blood" "He told me that some time in the past he suffered from high blood pressure and they cured it with leeches" "When I said that I just cannot stand them they looked horrible and loathsome he said: "They're dear little animals which did me good"" "Later, and now, he had Dr. MoreII to relieve him of too much blood... which is much neater, cleaner and hygienic" "Once he saw us eating meat and referred to Dr. MoreII and the blood-Ietting:" ""I shall have black pudding made from my surplus blood as you're so keen on meat"" "But I Iike black pudding" "(Leningrad front line forces theatre )" "He's very old, with bearded jaws I told him: mate, don't break the laws, just earn your keep as Santa Claus" "Why are you fidgeting in your seats?" "Are you bored, perhaps?" "You don't have to tell me anything, I know everything" "I have read all the books, all the biographies" "The biographies by the secretaries, by Krause, by Linge;" "I know everything" "Even of him" "Strictly private and personal:" "a story from his childhood" ""I never loved my father", he told me "but I feared him; he was irascible and beat me often" ""My mother always feared for me" ""As I once read in a book by karl May..." ""...that it is a sign of courage not to show pain..." ""..." "I decided not to utter one cry the next time" ""And when it happened again..." ""..." "I remember how my mother listened anxiously outside the door..." ""...and I remember how I counted..." ""...every stroke" ""My mother thought I had gone mad when I told her afterwards, beaming:" ""'Father gave me thirty-two"" ""Funny" ""I never had to repeat that experiment..." ""...as my father never touched me again"" "That's the story Hitler told me" "The next day I bought a book by karl May" "Later, when he had a hard life HitIer developed a great respect for his father who had worked himself up from orphan boy to Customs inspector" "Through his thrift and hard work, he even managed to buy a smallholding" "That's how one wins wars, with karl May and a strict father." "Doesn't one?" "Now I've had enough" "The skin is for the dog" "In his early years HitIer was given a dog" "It was a Scotch terrier;" "he called it BurIi" "He loved to play with the dog" "But no one was allowed to be present" "No one was permitted to see how the dog tore up files and leapt about the settee" "The moment I Ieft the room, his mood changed and he called the dog" "BurIi, that was its name" "And then Heinrich ("Court Photographer") Hoffmann wanted to take a photograph:" ""The Führer with Burli"" "But he forbade it, saying:" ""No, it's not appropriate for a Führer, we must have an alsatian'"" "There, the skin is for you" "Come here, BIondi." "Eat it" "Good dog, the Führer's doggie" "But he's not Iike BurIi" "How beautiful." "Like Christmas" "Christmas always tore at Hitler's heart" "He couldn't look at a Christmas tree" "They asked why he never went to a Christmas party, or gave one himself" "He said:" ""No, on Christmas Eve, under the lights of the tree..." ""...my mother died"" "I'm fed up." "You're treating me as if I were a nightmare making you sweat in your sleep" "Business, everything a show" "Everything for art, for films" "You know me. lt's a dangerous game" "An old plot: the devil comes to make pleasant conversation" "But he also tells a grain of truth" "Horror, excorcism, inquisition" "Truth nobody else dares to tell, cynically" "You'II be surprised, provided you can stand it" "A game" "If you can stick it out" "hitler as the devil playing to a full house, which is burning" "The devil as a moralist, that's what he always was" "The devil as Hitler and Hitler as a moralist who warns, as he always did" "Just imagine  I am a sad Jew from Germany sobbing that he wasn't allowed to be present wasn't invited although we were always the truest nationalists" "UnreIenting and full of tricks and loving the homeland" "Think how good Heydrich was for you" "Every Jewish immigrant from Germany is, deep inside, first and foremost a German" "How stupid of you not to recognize this" "How stupid of you not to play on this" "Not to make the most of this" "really, you can't be trusted alone with Germany" "What did you do for your country?" "You ruined the U.F.A. film organisation" "It was twenty years before they made decent films again" "You did everything wrong." "Everything" "I know what you mean:" "Murnau, Lubitsch, Sternberg, Fritz Lang" "You were accepted at the Vienna Academy," "An architect or a fiIm-maker, to build worlds in art" "But I had to make my way in politics" "You didn't sacrifice yourself in the dirty business of politics" "But I didn't shirk it, I fulfilled my task to the best of my ability according to our talents and our old traditions" "Friends, Iet us now praise the taboos" "Praise from the beyond, for the progress of the world after me" "What is my short earthly life compared with the eternity of my victory after?" "Can't I be satisfied with immortality?" "For exampIe, what would the map of Europe be without me?" "No one else changed that old continent so thoroughly" "We brought the Russians to the elbe, arranged for the Jews to have a state" "And a new colony for the U.S.A.; ask hollywood about its overseas markets" "well I know the tricks: what to say to the masses, what to do" "I am the tutor of the successful democrats" "Look around, they are well on the way to receiving our legacy" "Each in his own way" "The government of Soviet workers has cost one hundred million dead" "Is StaIin the Russian revenge of the non-Jews on the Jewish revolution?" "His purges extend as far as present day Prague" "It's a stroke of genius to confine the opposition in Iunatic asylums if they oppose oppression in the satellites:" "East Germany, poland..." "One must not speak of national frontiers, if one speaks from the beyond" "It concerns ideas, progress, modern politics, the future of the world" "It concerns the power of the strong;" "today called money, youth, majority" "It concerns not only Germany; people like me want to change the world" "The Germany of the Third Reich was a theatrical prelude" "You are the heirs." "WorId-wide" "On 10th November, 1975, the United Nations decided by two-thirds majority that Zionism is a sort of racism and racial discrimination" "They were all united, black and white, east and west, a majority" "And I praise ldi Amin, my Admirer." "Received by the pope, is that nothing?" "And Arafat appeared before the United Nations with a revolver in his holster" "And in the United Nations, 110 states out of 159 disregard all human rights 110 torture and murder" "So they vote inhumanity every time, a majority, absolutely democratic" "May I also praise the U.S.A where the supporters of the death penalty increasingly gain ground?" "Only the extermination of the American Indians made progress possible" "Only the extermination of the Russian aristocracy and middle class guaranteed the victory of the proletariat" "Everybody fights, re-educates, murders, helps his feIIow-beings" "Praise the new, IittIe-known China with its mass happiness and laughter" "Praise all Africa, which learns from us" "Who counts the dead after Red victories in Cambodia, Vietnam and Cuba?" "And after right-wing victory in chile?" "Think of the torture and killer commandos in brazil think of Argentina and of the kidnappers in Italy and South Africa" "Things are getting better" "The Arabs are already teaching our German revolutionaries terrorist tactics, the use of weapons ad shock troops" "And the best pupils of our desert foxes, the brave people in israel seem at last cleansed by the fire of our hell and can show their own deeds" "And in the U.S.A.?" "Nothing about Auschwitz gas chambers on American television" "It would harm the American oil industry and everything which has to do with oil" "You see, we have been victorious in a strange way, in America" "also I shall not stint my praise for East Germany with the bloody red of their bourgeois flag of progress" "A state of the future in political terms, a generation ahead" "You said it yourself" "Progress from Germany, the true German model" "German ways shall heal the world, old traditions in old uniforms with love of reality in their art, which we loved to teach them with condemnation of the decadence of dissidents." "Praise!" "Praise!" "How simple, wailing everything in with barbed wire and our watchtowers everything one huge ghetto, no need for concentration camps surrounded by people they call national and people's and Army shooting at anyone who merely wants to get away from state-made happiness" "Fifty million marks annual income from the sale of enemies of their state" "I couId learn from the, my star Prussian pupils, even today" "But I had the masses behind me, the people" "Only I was really elected democratically, ladies and gentlemen loved by the majority and carried by the will of the nation" "And what about the western half of divided Germany?" "My greetings to the terrorists and anarchists." "We started small, too" "They're driving new supporters to us" "And cheers for women's lib, the new racism, worId-wide but at its most radical with us, regardless of quality" "Whether we're for or against motherhood, the main thing is what we're winning mercilessly and inexorably" "What says the German chancellor, the trade unions, everyone?" "Unemployment is our biggest problem, its abolition worth every sacrifice" "I can tell you how to set about it;" "even hangmen wouldn't be unemployed" "I tell you it's impossible without sacrifice, but where to start?" "To go on living as before, without any change, is the end of you" "But you want to be elected" "Driven to your visionary doom by growth-rates" "But to stop making the volkswagen beetle was stupid" "It was the symbol of our virtues;" "you'II regret it, I tell you" "But the ObersaIzberg is doing well, even as an empty shell like the castles of Ludwig" "Film from my old newsreels commands the most expensive pop show prices" "The Russians used masonsy from the chancellery for their Treptow memorial taking with it my spirit, the curses of victims, the cheers of supporters" "The American took rockets from Peenemunde and used the atom bomb first" "Your Auschwitz." "Bravo!" "The world is a cesspool" "The eagles of Europe are dying out, they live in Africa" "Thor HeyerdahI couldn't wash in the sea for 43 of the 56 days of his voyage" "Is that the world you are setting against mine?" "So HitIer is the miracle man of the German bourgeois." "And nothing else?" "Oil millions, briberies, Lockheed money for your politicians." "well done!" "But what about the great idea the concept of the great architect, the meaningful architecture?" "I'm not speaking of the intricacy of the corruption of the dirty compromising of the functionaries and merchant peoples" "I'm speaking of the logic of this century of its politics that will make you tremble with fear at its effects on the masses" "I'm speaking of socialism and progress with demonstrations and marches which give the masses their glamour" "We need a modern political artist to create the masterpiece" "As long as they play Wagner's music, I'lI not be forgotten;" "I saw to that" "Burned for eternity into the history of Wagner's music" "Source of our, of my strength." "Everything goes according to plan" "And we have conquered, after all, everywhere, in a more subtle way" "Only in a different disguise;" "just think of the new words:" ""Society" instead of "Fatherland", "people's ideology", not "philosophy"" ""Functionary" instead of "human being", "partisanship" instead of "conscience"" ""Expediency" instead of "quality", "politic" instead of "just"" ""Education politics" and "leisure industry" instead of "culture"" ""Satisfaction of need" instead of "happiness"" "Germany as the schoolmaster of the world economy in East and West, together with Japan" "Through leisure-tourism we are everywhere, as busy as the ants" "A slightly softer world domination than my methods, a bitter realization" "An aIl-out fight with all weapons" "I alone am the bogeyman of this world;" "I accept that, if our ideas survive" "AII are guilty, but who is nearer to God than the guilty?" "But what about the time without God?" "We have dethroned Him ourselves" "Thus spake the devil" "Was he, after all, cynical and moral?" "Or, on the contrary, quite human?" "A sort of grand inquisitor living in our time" "full of praise for all sides" "His inheritance, begun long ago, in various ways" "And yet in their banality they find no home in the divine of the devil" "Long live mediocracy, freedom and equality for the ordinary people" "Third-raters only interested in annual increases in profit of salary seIf-exterminating, relentlessly approaching their end; what an end!" "Without me" "Bravo, they're liquidating themselves, only more slowly." "Aren't they?" "Thus spoke the cynic and he's always right" "End of Part 3 "The End of a Winter's tale"" "Faith moves mountains" "The faith that must be in all of us to work and to struggle;" "for the nation, for the Reich" "(Goebbels) 30th January 1943 (Clausewitz New Years Eve 1945)" "I declare and affirm to the world and posterity that I consider the false wisdom of avoiding danger to be the most harmful cause of fear and alarm" "The wildest despair would be wiser if we were unable to face danger with manly courage, with calm, suer determination and a clear conscience I must not forget the warning events of old and new times the wise teachings of centuries the noblest examples of famous peoples;" "I must not forget these and surrender world history for the page of a lying newspaper I feel clean of all selfishness for l can confess my every thought and feeling openly to my fellow citizens" "I would feel only too happy in the glorious fight for liberty and dignity of the Fatherland to find a glorious end" "Should this belief of mine and like - minded men merit contempt and scorn let posterity decide" "Imagine a conversation in a German landscape in which light, windows and fireplace, park, walks, corridors, fires dark faces, cogarette smoke, cIose-ups of faces from face to face or typical refugee conversations, continually interrupted or as in KarI Kraus's Last Days of Mankind the Optimist and the Pessimist, arguments for and against" "That could all be acted in eight to ten scenes" "Perhaps not" "It's all very difficult" "I read from the research material of the film" "Imagine this HitIer that means one hundred and fifty searchIights at Nuremberg shining vertically into the sky so they can be seen at night as far as Frankfurt then concentrated on the stairs where HitIer made his entrance" "How must a man feel when, dazzled like this he appears before 400,000, cheering in the darkness and is then approached by thousands of flags, one from each Party branch?" "I this the will of electorate, the total artistic production of German politics in the twentieth century?" "Official Opening of Great German Art Exhibition" "When Henriette Hoffmann, later the wife of the Schirach who ruled Austria and who ruled German youth, called HitIer Youth when sixteen, this daughter of hitler's friend and photographer barefoot and in her nightdress, opened their door to Hitler one night he asked for his dog-whip and, slapping his open hand with it turned and said: '"Won't you kiss me"?" "He had known the girl since she was eight and now, fort he first time, he spoke to her as a grown-up" "She replied as girls of that age do, in fear or in honesty, who knows:" ""No, really not, Herr Hitler"" "How impractical, she will say forty-five years later" "A few years after that the same Henriette, now a young woman, was the only one who reproached HitIer for the murder of the Jews in the middle of the war at ObersaIzberg, in front of seventeen silent uniformed men" "Speer and Schirach were in the canteen; they preferred the staff whereupon, hitler came up to her, stood by her at the fireplace seized her by the wrists and said, at first intently, then shouting:" ""We're at war, our best men are dying and our German blood is drying up"" ""That's why our enemies must be sacrified, too"" "And she said: "I was taught to love, not to hate"" "She rembered her early days with him when he said:" ""The most beautiful thing in life is to educate a human being"" "But now she heard him shouting:" ""Learn to hate, to hate as I do!"" "Eaten up by love and hate" "We must invent a new, differnt reality" "Let us have the courage to change our lives" "It's a question of the quality of the new reality as they always say in such moments" "The Utopians, the ideologists, idealists or artists" "What did Thea von Harbou say in the book she dedicated:" ""To Hitler and Germany" the authorees of Fritz Lang's Nibelung films of the 1920s?" ""It meant the creation of a new world fort he new century... '...in which the primeval beginning, the myth, the fairy-taIe... '...memories of the beginning of mankind... '...should match the recognizable majesty of the early cathedrals'"" "And he said: "We are idealists..." ""...ideaIists of a steely romanticism..." ""...artists of a new reality, of the twentieth century..." ""...the past merging with the future"" "But what did the widow of PIauen, the UFA technician, have to pay when he was executed for cracking a joke about the new realities?" "Four hundred Reichsmarks for the executioner one hundred for his assistant and twenty-five pfennings for the sawdust" "He saw himself as Moses with the tablets of the law" "An Egyption or a Grecian prophet." "hitler the Great" "The Shining example of ObersaIzberg, as Henriette knew him a Nero who set Europe afIame for us not insanely, but coolly, consciously, logically" "The planned end of our tradtion and development" "It is fear" "Fear of the great tempters democracy" "A fear persisting as long as there is socialism, the masses, technology" "Fear of the devil of the democratic system" "And Germany was ripe for it" "The reddest state in Western Europe, Bavaria in communist hands" "A state always top of the class in world history with excellence and idealism, with masses, technology and energy no class hatred, but class reconciliation and then came his slogan:" ""Workers equal artists"" "An art fort he people which everyone can understand a cultural revolution against the turn of the century's ivory tower against those who once scorned popular magazines" "He made trash respectable in the history of German taste" ""Art fort he people"; a radical slogan" ""Work Liberates", or "To each his own" or "Abandon all hope'", or Right or wrong, my HitIer!"" "hitler, on 30th January, 1933, in the CanceIIery, later his last refuge said to the Iast departing guests of his entourage:" ""Nobody" will ever get me out of here alive"" "With that proved to be right, as he so often was" "Let us remember how HitIer wept when he said good-bye to his old friend, the photographer Hoffmann before his cremation in a Russian bomb-crater" "twilight of the Gods, 1945" "In the petrol fire lit by his driver and servant you"Il have to visualize him as a lover of Germany, and he was Germany as everybody knew; wasn't that what they wanted?" "Heir to the Habsburg emperor and the holy Roman Empire" "You'II have to sustain that idea for once, without any seIf-deception" "Look at his face, the face of a typical loser at the head of Germany, identifying himself with it" ""I am Germany and Germany is me" ""How fortunate that we found each other" ""Perhaps it isn't worthy of me..." ""...this Germany..." ""...where democracy and republic were still just imports from abroad..." ""...aimed against our best traist, against obedience and subordination..." ""...against a freedem to serve and to command..." ""...against the virtues of soldiering, technology, philosophy..." ""...aimed against our enthusiasm, aimed against our joy in strength..." ""...the strength of our belief, of our beauty in the Triumph of the Will..." ""...aimed against our electoral will" ""Our right and our desire, our garment of honour is the uniform"" "Put Germans in uniforms and you'II see them achieve miracles" "They are unsuitable for eating, living or having fun" "In the war they were called Fritzes" "Better to die with honour than live in shame" "To live for others, to die for others" "That's not new, it's the basis of our culture, the proxy principle" "An old European tradition, Western civilization" ""Who"Il ask in the future if FräuIein SchuIze was happy?", HimmIer said" ""War is the father of everything", said the Greeks" "And today we say: "He who pays the piper calls the tune"" "The freedom of the consumer..." "but there's more to it" "We speak of war and the Germans, famous for their wars and culture" "But we have really known how to live and known how to die" "We've lived a theme that will serve for centuries, the theme of happy guilt" "We've lived it to death" "guilt is the principle of tragedy" "Germany is the tragic country of the century" "Europe's downfall, yet ultimate victor of the Iast war if we deem it an honour to be and to remain the foremost consumer democracy in the world" "A war forced upon us, says HitIer, to avoid it all later on" "It's easier to wage war at fifty than at sixty." "It had to come" "Let us hear again the sacred war hymns as a reflection of Europe's glory the orgasm of universal life which fertilizes the chaos which is the prelude to all creativity and which, Iike Christ, the redeemer from death triumphs over death itself" "And HitIer was born of war, Iike ParsifaI" "There the war-bIinded Hitler decided to be a politician" ""There I resolved to be a politician"" "1918, when everything came to an end" "Let's assume he remembered the scene when he was decorated with the Iron Cross, First class unusual for a Iance-corporal then" "As he stood before his officer, a German ...who was secretly called a Jew HitIer was told never to forget the honour and duty to the Fatherland he accepted with the medal" "He, a Iittle man, regimental runner and petty bourgeois" "That admonishment, coming from the Jew, Hugo Gutmann the adjutant who considered him a crank and laughed about it as Hitler was unfit for promotion, lacking qualities of leadership reading only Homer and Parsifal, Schopenhauer and the gospels away from the others, in the trenches which HitIer called a substitute for university" "The loneliness of the chosen one, his home and his religion" "That is how adolf hitler son of an Austrian customs official, became a politician swearing he would never again be petty bourgeois" "If politics is really the art of the possible the formulators of programmes can only please the gods if they demand the impossible" "In the course of human history it can sometimes happen that the politician and the planner become one" "But he closer this fusion is, the greater is the resistance to the politician's activities" "He no Ionger works for requirements understandable to the average citizen but for aims which only a small minority understands" "That is why his life is torn by love and hatred and why success becomes rarer, but if it blossoms just once in centuries then perhaps in his later years an aura of glory can surround him" "obviously, such great men are only the marathon runners of history" "The laurel wreath of the present touches rather the brow of the dying hero" "Remember how he resolved in Landsberg prison by strict observance of the laws, by legality and determination to reach power through proper democratic procedures radical, fanatical use of democratic principles and possibilities" "The little man who swore never again to be commonplace" "A commonplace man with artistic ambitions who swears a Philistine oath against a Philistines and with a committed belief in German greatness born of ancient tradition and European bourgeois civilization fashions German dreams in his heart" "The soldier from the battlefields of the First world War who had to prove his leadership and artistry, belittled in Vienna" "A terrible, seIf-imposed code which it was to prove impossible for him and his feIIow-fighters to keep" "Which is why, through inferiority and guilt, they were strict and cruel merciless insisting on everyone's observance of that code" "About this time, hitler saw the film of Hugo's Les Miserables as Henriette recalled in later years" "He sat under chestnut trees and drank beer" "The film was projected onto a sheet, with piano accompaniment" "It was a struggle between the inhuman agent of the Iaw and the human fate of Jean VaIjean and little Cosette" "The film said it was better to give than to take a quality which was totally alien to hitler" "He was a fiIm-fan, a man of the masses who sensed the power of the cinema and had decided to become a film hero if not literally, at least he had decided never again to be commonplace but would live by a justice which ignored petty suspectibiIities" "So HitIer became Siegfried and, like stalin, a great fan of Westerns whose code was: "One man against all, against a world of enemies"" "The little good man against the big baddie with enjoyment of the strength we all like to see" "The quickest on the draw wins and is right, applauded at the end" "A little pressure in the spectator's drab life" "Don't we feel once more at this moment the miracle that brought us together?" "Once you heard a man's voice and it touched our hearts" "It woke you up and you followed that voice" "You followed it for years without ever having seen its owner" "You heard only a voice and you followed it" "When we meet here, we're filled by the wonder of that meeting" "Not all of you an see me and I can't see all of you but I feel your presence and you feel mine" "It is the belief in our nation which has made us little people great which has made us poor people rich which has made us waiting, dejected, frightened people brave and courageous which has made the lost see again and brought us together" "That demanded sacrifices, true to the old fairy-taIe" "If you renounce love, you'II be rich" "If you renounce friendship, individuality, you'Il be famous rich and famous" "But he happy end is called the Twilight of the Gods" "But if there are no more gods, above or below where do we fail in a godless game for success?" "Fatherland, community, socialism, nation" "The secret ideal of all managers, if they are honest" "He stated everything in advance, to everybody but nobody wanted to believe it" "Somebody had to be found who's to blame for all the sins of the world for the shaming rat-race for profit for art which no one among the people understood for unemployment and everyday humiIiations and hardships" "And somebody had to be found who undertook the task of purification sacrified conscience and swept everybody along in a Dionysian cult like a nightmare with murder and blood fort he new cause" "They thought they were doing good by killing evil, as they called it ostensibly in others, but subconsciously in themselves" "A battlefield of the ego" "In Thuringia, where BuchenwaId concentration camp was built they left standing the oak where Goethe wrote poetry 150 years before" "For exampIe, "The Wanderer's Night-Song"" "Thou comest from skies, all our pain and torment stilling" "Him who doubly troubled lies, doubly with Thy comfort filling" "When will all this turmoil cease?" "What's the point of life's unrest?" "Come, sweet peace, come, oh come into my breast" "And four years later" "Over all the treetops it's still" "Over all the mountains tops you will hear each sound cease" "The birds have grown quiet in the glen, wait a while" "Then you'll also find peace" "When the VersailIes Treaty forbade us to use old wooden munitions stores because of the explosion risks though they were isolated, fenced, with watch-towers and railway sidings HitIer swore to use these vacant munition camps on state land and lock up in them, should he ever come to power those very men who signed that Treaty of versailles" "And he swore to call them concentration camps as the english called their camps in the Boer War" "Those english, his great rivals whom he imitated, radically, thoroughly, without any sloppiness" "He feared sIoppiness; people reproached him for that and his indecision" "To the english "right or wrong, my country", he replied "I am Germany"" "So he became the fulfiller of civilized German's principles of its performance, progress, energy its power and intelligence without morals, without God or emperor only with a yearning mass which lacked a rallying point" "What had Robert MusiI said, that Viennese Jew, hitler's compatriot?" ""If just once..." ""...one of the ideas which move our lives..." ""...was applied so thoroughly that no opposing ideas remained..." ""...our culture would no Ionger be our culture"" "When Abraham received the order to kill his son to perform a service for God to comply with religion and God's law it was the arm of that God which stopped him at the Iast moment" "hitler had to do without that mercy in the godless period of the collapse of Western civilization" "And history progressed through him" "He accomplished it." "East and West face each other on te EIbe and israel has become Greater Israel" "Europe is, as he said, at its end" "Not economically, but he never spoke of economics; that's how we prefer it" "We don't discuss money, of course" "In ten years, car fumes destroyed as much culture as four previous centuries" "That the post-war years destroyed more in our cities through rebuilding than the Iast war's bombs, is a well known joke of our reality" "Final victory, final solution" "This is how Goebbels and his men saw themselves in the war's last battle when he spoke of the film Kolberg:" ""gentlemen" ""In one hundred years they'Il show another colour film..." ""...describing the dreadful days we are about to undergo" ""Don't you want to play a part in the film that will resurrect you?" ""Every man now has the chance to pick the part..." ""...that he'lI play in that film in one hundred years" ""I can assure you it will be a great, beautiful, inspiring film..." ""...and fort he sake of that film, it's worth standing fast." "Hold out!"" "And the story, a very short story" "An everyday story of a man with a placard marked '"Jew" who was driven through the streets of GreifswaId in Pomerania the town of the painter Caspar David Friedrich driven by the hitler Youth of GreifswaId who kicked his arse and spat at him" "But that German walked proud and upright through his town" "A young officer, in tears at this Iegitimized injustice had to be restrained lest the suffer the same fate" "And in May, 1945, when the war was over some GIs caught the son of von Schirach the three year old son of the former HitIer Youth leader" "The child thought he would get some chewing-gum but they demanded he say Sieg heil!" "or hell HitIer!" "At a loss, the weeping child imitated the Gl's actions and one stubbed a lighted cigarette on his arm" "What did Hitler say before the end of the war?" ""Even if we lose it, the sacrifices will not have been in vain"" "The seed will sprout, some time, somewhere" "I am immortal as long as this world exists as long as socialism, capitalism and human masses exist" "At the end of the film Jew Süss GoebbeIs banned the Jew's curse on his town when he was imprisoned in a cage and hanged" "This was the curse:" ""You bIood-thirsty tyrants, slaves of baal, judges of Sodom!" ""Your limbs shall wither, your living bodies shall decay" ""Your children and children's children shall fester" ""Each day shall bring you misfortune..." ""...and pain shall drive the sleep from your eyes" ""evil neighbours shall disturb your peace" ""Your first-born shall bring you shame" ""Your memory will be cursed..." ""...and your town will be destroyed by fire from heaven" ""No bread shall still your hunger, nothing quench your thirst" ""Your rights shall find no hearing..." ""...and your own tongues shall revile your God"" "And on the road, the old man dragging a cart with his cases and remainung possessions moves fearfuIIy on forever trekking on, a refugee goaded on, staring ahead, without rest ignorant that he is forever without a homeland, that he will never arrive" "hitler is to blame for everything" "Only Hitler?" "The questions of a literate worker" "But how are we to represent all that without narrow-mindedness, injustice?" "Where does one begin?" "The ideas and their consequences, big and small the grief and the merriment which was always present" "What could Henriette von Schirach tell us today?" "It was the glorious time of our youth, great decisions" "He took my hand and forbade me to cry when mother died" ""One mustn't allow people to look into one's heart'"" "And that same man, now grown old at the end of his war, weeping who stood turned aside at the fireplace hearing the death-roII of his blond soldiers, handkerchiefs to his lips like Frederick Il after the battles in the Seven Years War when his great men fell, as MenzeI painted him" "In between, there were the glorious, golden days" "Picnics with him in Munich in 1923, when we sang in the open Mercedes" "Dreamed with him of rockets to the moon the House of Art, the labyrinths of the Minotaur with cars for all on the motorways" "butterflies on the naked bodies of our youth when Geli was still alive and Ernst Röhm still laughed and Brückner always had his elbow out of the car window until it was shattered in the accident with the big Mercedes still driven by Maurice the founder of the S.A. , later condemned as a Jew HitIer's oldest friend, who saved his life, a Jew from Germany" "With Putzi who whistled Wagner and read from newspapers foreign reports of the latest speeches at the Zirkus Krone where HitIer said: "The Jew is always in us..." ""...and if he didn't exist we'd have to invent him"" "Pure medieval times, witches and belief in devils, Western civilization" "It was at that time that he suddenly ordered the car to stop on the way to Berchtesgaden, before the house was rebuilt when he saw a boy reading under a tree just like the trite pictures of yesterday... and today" ""Just as it was in my youth", he cried "when I sat in the shade and read to my friends about the Boer War..." ""...how they were fighting the english;" "Ohm Krüger versus Lord KiIchener..." ""...with concentration camps and great harshness" ""And behind me was my stern father's beehive..." ""...shaped like the victorious napoleon, the master of frozen Moscow" ""napoleon, through whose stomach the bees flew in and out..." ""...a busy community, clean and tidy, which loved its state..." ""...capable of organizing honeycombs, tending its queen..." ""..." "looking after its future..." ""...always battling with the hostile wasp..." ""...which is stupid, but wily, incapable of building a dwelling..." ""...parasites which have to be exterminated, as my father said" ""That was my task from early childhood." "Duty against the vermin" ""Father was stern, with his pipe and whip and all the bees around him" ""We can always learn from nature;" "always, everything"" "And there was young Hess who took pity on a wasp and rescued it from a wasp trap on the verandah of hitler's house" "It bit him on the tongue so badly he needed doctors and a hospital and a tracheotomy in Berchtesgaden" "That's when Hitler said:" ""You see, my child, he's too kind and that's the result"" "I remember him listening to Bruckner, his compatriot from Upper Austria his Romantic Symphony" "Bruckner, not Wagner, to get into the right mood for his speeches" "We shall go into this battle as into a church service" "( GoebbeIs, 11th March, 1945, GörIitz )" "And when they shoulder their rifles and start their tanks then they will see their murdered children and their raped wives and a cry for vengeance will arise from their throats which will make the enemey blanch" "...which suddenly grew so huge in its small surroundings like a cancer in the history of our traditions" "hitler as the Iast maker of European history who failed in tradition, ideas, art, power politics energies and achievement" "Why failed?" "Why not a meIting-pot, a mindless victim, medium of a world spirit?" "You think you're pushing, but you're being pushed" "The mirror of our avid desire and dreams for the power to the community" "There was no other choice;" "the development of history and the many attempts at democratic elections in germany prove it" "AII lead again to him;" "he was the only solution" "No chance, no mistake, but logically, to the Iast he and we were together" "The goddess of history and of destiny had spoken" "He was right, in a terrible way right" "He was germany, Germany was him, in twentieth century Europe" "AII in the traditions of Frederick the Second Napoleon and Lenin and stalin and WaIIenstein the knightly dynasties, King Arthur and Charlemagne the Romantics and the classics of Kant nineteenth century Vienna, Greeks, Romans, the entire middle Ages" "The executor from the grandiose era of Vienna who came from the province of Upper Austria the catholic acoIyte Adolf, with Mozart's Masses in his ear grown up to bet he petty bourgeois executor of Prussians virtues in the Iast St. Vitus's dance of the twentieth century" "The European atom bomb had exploded" "It ignited in the field of culture that mixture of the enlightened believers in progress with the conservative taste and intent of Western reaction and the desire for recognition in sacrifice of the proletarian masses" "AII that in the heart of Europe" "Austria and Prussia again united in a German Reich for the Iast time with the global ambition of a petty bourgeois genius" "Or he last desperate attempt of the intellectually deprived hungry upstarts of the cultural proletariat to find their own style, to gain equality, together with the urge to be admitted into places incomprehensible to them the offensive venues of the cultured, capitalists, fashionable those despised sets which were so chummy with one another who lived it up and laughed at the have-nots of the slums and the vulgar masses until they were slain, insisting on their last right to fulfilment in the seIf-imposed Paradise in hell" "What does it say in MuspilIi, the ninth century manuscript about the final battle between the heavenly host and Satan's followers?" "Imagine Elijah and Satan Satan's blood dripping onto the Earth, kindling the world's conflagration" "The earth, mountains burning trees disappear from the earth rivers dry up, the moon falls down and finally the whole world is burning" "Attention!" "Here is an air-raid report" "Attention!" "Here is an air-raid report" "Enemy bomber and fighter squadrons are heading east from Norderney" "A small group is reported over the Rhineland... (President RooseveIt, 20th January, 1943 )" "We shall go into this battle as into a church service" "We speak to you as Germans with heartfelt love for their people" "Soldiers, our people has no need of your senseless death lt needs your life for work in a Germany of the future" "(waiter UIbricht, 11th april, 1945, Moscow Radio )" "This is Radio Wehrwolf in enemy-occupied territory" "We are the voice of the German freedom fighters" "Every evening at seven we bring you news of the German fight für freedom" "On 1,3000 metres, 32 4 kilohertz" "Further news of our Wehrwolves' fight will be given later." "Meanwhile, music" "(5th april, 1945 )" "Attention!" "Here is an air-raid report warning" "Enemy bombers are approaching Bremen" "( 12th april, 1945 )" "(Winston churchill. 25th april, 1945 )" "(BBC report from Auschwitz, 15th April, 1945)" "Today we are happy that everything is behind us" "We don't know how we can ever thank the liberators" "We only know that when we get out we must tell the world everything we have been through here" "Otherwise, we would not be able to live" "Listeners will probably think that we are no longer quite normal but when you start to tell the story, it's so gruesome you don't know where to start, there are such terrible things" "You can't find words to describe the things we have experienced and anyone who wasn't here will never understand how dreadfully that red flame stays in our memory" "When we see the sun setting today, we think of the Auschwitz chimney which devoured thousands, and we had to look on" "Fists clenched in our pockets, we could do nothing, we were slaves tortured only because we had come to Auschwitz as Jews because we had the terrible misfortune to be born Jews" "We had committed no crime, except we had come into the world as Jews;" "as Jews we had to end up that chimney" "( 1st May, 1945 ) lt is reported from the Führer's headquarters that our Führer, Adolf Hitler fell this afternoon in his command post in the Chancellery fighting to the end against Bolshevism" "He died for Germany" "(BBC, 2nd May, 1945 )" "ObersaIzberg today." "Memories of Hitler" "The whip" "The suit torn in the attempted assassination." "A Winter Charity badge" "Eva Braun's leather shorts." "hitler's dogs, stuffed" "Secretaries, servants, drivers, military men" "Then the Iast things from hitler's room in his bunker" "Frederick the Great, painted by Anton Graff" "His mother's portrait." "The pistol for his final solution" "And MuspiIIi, which he read as he wrote Mein Kampf on his spot" "Ladies and gentlemen, the opening of "The Life of hitler" in Bavaria" "A report on the exhibition, before it is expanded." "Three thousand visitors per day, as in Ludwig the Second's castles" "That's our limit." "Five buses up, five buses down, in convoy on the single track road to the Teahouse lift" "Many Americans, French, Scandinavians and from Eastern Europe and the German Democratic republic if they can get out secretly;" "and our people" "whole bus-Ioads of factory workers work's outings and celebrities, too" "Romy Schneider recently and blacks from developing countries, with white girls and AIsatian dogs, on an elegant short chain" "Therefore as a tourist attraction a public demand can be statistically measured" "Capacity is still capable of expansion" "A diagram shows how they moved between the destroyed places of history between their homes, overgrown with vegetation Bormann, Göring and hitler like ants whose nest has been destroyed and their queen removed" "And, strangely, where their houses stood the new green grows more Iushly" "It's comforting to realize how our traces and those of historic deeds imprint their spirit in their landscape how our traces cannot perish for eternities or cannot be obliterated by a government decree to blow them up" "The spirit lives on" "Many people cannot forget that" "Many want to see it again, even the evil" "At least that might be a last consolation" "(7th May, 1945 )" "Welcome, everybody!" "Don't be alarmed, we're not dealing with politics" "We don't want any problems" "We're dealing with leisure industries" "Entertainment, show business, films and tourism" "Of course, within the framework of law, not of morals" "Do some Business, have some fun" "The best one is the one who sells well" "Business is the freedom of the democrat" "Democracy is only possible with economic growth" "Seen like that, Hitler is clearly the international best-seIIer with real box-office potential" "Of course we've made a few concessions to public feeling... but the public is always right" "At the box-office, quality is decided democratically" "Porno, hetero, homo, blood, horror" "really human situations amid catastrophe a cast-iron story with convincing actors" "Big business, worId-wide, socially conscious, socio-poIiticaI" "Nothing esoteric; culture is excluded" "The common people's taste rules, O.K.?" "Softly the telephone's ringing and we know what it's bringing it can only be you, just you" "This is bandleader Wolf" "Haven't you, haven't you, got a wife for me, too?" "Sure, sure, we've got one you'll adore" "One I'd like from head to toe, with a great big stack of dough" "Sure, sure, we've got one you'll adore" "She must be charming, yes, yes, yes." "Not alarming, no, no, no." "Have no vices, no, no, no, Pay my prices, yes, yes, yes" "Of course, we must not glorify HitIer but using him for business is permitted" "That creates jobs and a leisure activity" "Important milestones of the democratic spirit that we have learned so well, don't you think?" "If you please, Herr Director" "Here is the pistol with which HitIer shot himself in front of Frederick the Great's portrait" "Don't be afraid" "(Winston churchill, 8th May, 1945 )" "Of course, we must also remember the victims" "A mini-show as reparation a mini-Dachau, with the Boger swing" "No power without resistance;" "no castle without a torture chamber" "Witness the Tower of London" "Here we deal with the terrible power and torture of the twentieth century" "Very modern and progressive technically perfect, approved by the State building Authority" "We are open for all questions, strictly impartial" "With Arab money and israeli management, equally balanced" "Land speculation with money from reparations" "On our alpine territory in Germany, absolutely democratic" "The secret places where Bormann's biologically dynamic food grew" "Vegetarian food nowadays" "Where Hermann Göring, the fat one practised archery and laughed" "And Eva wept in the evening when she had to stay alone not even a grass widow, fanatically taking snaps for her album" "A German war savings bond for the German disneyland on the holy Mountain near Berchtesgaden" "An amusement park with special film shows" "hitler in UFA-Iand, servant girIs' fiction" "AII sorts of shows, from fairy-taIe to the land of the future and a merry-go-round of progress to Fantasy-Land and Frontier-Land where there's always challenge:" "don't say "We didn't have our history"" "Business deals" "The time is ripe, it's expected of us now, the interest is there" "We'Il continue with figures and dates exactly according to history" "The wedding in the Teahouse of Eva's sister with SS-man Fegelein ...the traitor and SS butcher in Poland" "On 20th April, a memorial ceremony for the victims and on the anniversary of his death a wonderful wolf's celebration for the Ione wolf in the 1945 bunker jungle" "And always in the off-season in November a meditation, like 1923, with star-gazing and an introduction to "The World Ice Theory" in the polytechnic" "(8th May, 1945)" "(HitIer)" "So I was a member of the German army, a rifleman among millions of others and that gave me my belief and my struggle in the movement for the soul of the Germann masses of the millions of workers and peasants" "That struggle taught me to know the most precious thing there is:" "the constant strength of the mass of the people from whom the concept of a National Socialist state was born from whom our people's community was created our National Socialist Party our German Reich!" "Star of the sea, I greet you" "O Virgin Mary, help" "Mother of God so sweet" "O Virgin Mary, help us all from our deep distress" "You comrades, march in spirit in our ranks!" "You comrades, shot by Reds and reactionaries!" "Twenty hours and three minutes" "Radio Flensburg and all other stations" "We bring you the last armed services communique of this war from the H. Q. of Admiral Dönitz" "9th May, 1945" "The High Command of the armed forces announces:" "In East Prussia, German divisions yesterday bravely defended the Vistula estuary and the Memel sector to the last" "The Seventh Infantry Division fought with particular distinction" "Commander-in-Chief Tank General von Salten in recognition of the exemplary conduct of his soldiers was awarded the oak leaves with swords, in diamonds of the Knight's Cross" "As the advanced bastion in Courland in our armies commanded by General Grüter tied down superior forces of Soviet infantry and tanks for months and won immortal fame in six great battles" "They refused any premature surrender" "Far from the homeland, the defenders of the Atlantic Wall our troops in Norway and the forces in the Aegean Islands ...have preserved the honour of the German soldier, with discipline" "Since midnight there has been a ceasefire on all fronts" "By order of Admiral our armed forces have ocased the hopeless fight" "The heroic struggle of almost six years is at an end lt brought us great victories, but also heavy defeats" "The German armed forces have finally been overcome honourably by vastly superior strength" "That was the text of the last armed services communique of this war" "There will be radio silence for three minutes" "(Joseph Stalin, Moscow, 9th May, 1945 )" "The great day of victory over Germany has come" "Beaten to it's knees by the Red Army and the troops of our Allies Fascist Germany has admitted defeat and has surrendered unconditionally" "(President Truman, San Francisco, 26th June, 1945 )" "(B.B.C. , 6th August, 1945 )" "After so much praise of the world's progress in imitation of his legacy let me speak of the lost life" "You are guilty of Moscow's successful imperialism stretching to the elbe, with walls and concentration camps like yours patrolled by AIsatian dogs" "And who said that the eternal Jew, wandering for centuries through the world obliged by violent unrest to seek refuge in culture spurred on by endless provocation wanted to become a commonplace PhiIistine like all the others?" "In israel there lives no KarI Kraus no Musil, Kafka, SchnitzIer, AItenberg, FriedeII, PoIgar" "There they need the Moshe Dayans, I can well understand" "You killed the eternal Jew" "You destroyed berlin and Vienna" "Yet your ridiculous panoramic windows on the ObersaIzberg triumphantly progress through the holiday homes of Austria and Germany" "And the others are learning from us still" "You're responsible for the houses without a soul, with burnt out eyes without tears, towns which cannot weep" "Motor-Iandscapes without stillness, full of noise" "You've taken away the sunsets" "Sunsets by Caspar David Friedrich" "You're to blame that we can't see a cornfield without thinking of you" "You've made kitsch of the old Germany with your simpified crafts and peasant pictures" "And you're to blame that we've lost our proud inns turned into quick service restaurants as people fear to value this work more than money the harmlessly harmful, the only thing you've left them because you've occupied everything else and poisoned it with your touch" "Everything" "Honour, loyalty country life, rest for work, films dignity, fatherland pride, belief" "You are the executioner of Western civilization democratically seIf-eIected, voluntarily with the victory of money of materialism over us" "The plague of the century" "The pitiful artist who became executioner and politician voluntarily" "Cheered as no man ever was before" "How am I to explain it to you and myself and to all the children and grandchildren who knew nothing of the previous life that everyone has forgotten today poisoned by the new legacy of your time?" "The new version of the old average, Philistine citizen" ""The commonplace was always there" said WaIlenstein, "It always was and always returns..." ""...and will be there tomorrow because it has prevailed today" ""Man is made of commonplace things and he calls habit his nurse'"" "AII this has been made impossible" "The words "magic'" and "myth" and "serve'" and "rule" '"leader", "authority'", are finished and done banned for ever" "And we are extinguished" "Nothing will grow after us" "A whole people has ceased to exist in the shere of the spirit and the elite" "The new men were designed, developed" "The new man is here" "The plague of materialism has conguered East and West" "My congratulations!" "After the journey into this world who is nearer to God than the guilty?" "But what about the time without God since we ourselves have dethroned him?" "So spoke the devil." "ultimately, cynically and morally" "Or, rather, in a somewhat human tone in one of his roles about twilight of the Gods without gods" "The final end of progress" "The end through death of environment of the species known as "man" among the lower vermin of the insects or the death of souls of an ice age society" "The Last Judgement without lawyers and therefore finally just" "incredibly terrifying" "Making room for the next race on the next planet, after this one finally became seIf-destroying through the species known as "man"" "Now they'II say we're crazy and so are those who invented and made us" "But there'II be no posterity to describe and praise our world" "Or did we insult anybody, offend anyone?" "We only praised." "As in life" "What else is one to say with such a theme?" "And it is this black mother of our fantasy of the Iast star-stories of celluloid  the black Mary as she was called by Edison, who made his first film in her" "The holy apparatus, as Mary Pickford called the camera" "The camera obscura, the black chamber which tells us old stories anew stories, projections of our inner thoughts like "once upon a time'" or "ln the beginning there was..."" "Stories of home-sickness and longing and madness within us after everything has slowly been built up externally" "Let's remember school" "black stone" "Iapis Iapidi, stone of light" "lux ex coeIis, fallen from Lucifer's crown" "The grail, the kaaba the golden fleece from the Tree of Life fallen from the stars" "Stars waxing and waning" "Part of the treasure from Delphi from the legacy of apollo, the Sun God brought to the Gardens of the Resperides and granting eternal life to the gods and those who want to be like the men in the land of the hyperboreas in Montsegur" "Do you remember?" "The Holy chalice of the grail in which the blood flowed that night, the true, pure blood" "Orient, Mohamed, the middle Ages and Christianity together" "King Arthur's Court and Richard Wagner, once again" "A black stone fallen to earth from heaven, eternally Ionging to return to the lost paradise" "The angel who tears the blame fort he world's sin when Adam and Eve became guilty" "black sun of the light at the beginning and from the end of all ends the black hole, appIe-size, in the whirlpool of dark nothingness containing everything, our earth the sun, the planetary system the milky Way, one among fifty millions, miIIiards coIlapsed into the small black hole of the future" "That's what we are and all our projections, memories dreams from the era of the light" "Come down to us, night of love, give forgetfulness, to make us live" "Take me up into your arms and release me from the world" "Praise to Joy, from God descended" "Daughter of Elysium, ray of mirth and rapture blended" "Goddess, to thy shrine we come" "By thy magic is united what harsh custom parted wide" "All mankind are brothers plighted Where thy gentle wings abide" "Thinking of Germany in the night, all my dreams have taken flight I can no longer sleep and with hot tears I weep" "...though I have faith so I could move mountains and have not charity I am nothing" "A projection into the black hole of the future"