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Hitler as a political Britney Spears

Whereas one commentator in my last thread had Hitler as the progenitor of all European racial pride, Joachim Fest shows him as a man more gifted at borrowing other peoples ideas than himself coming up with any of his own. Fest traces the origins of Nordic/Aryan racial ideology and also the idea of National Socialism to a handful of thinkers, whose ideas were already in circulation at the beginning of the 1910s. Even the combination of these various elements was already present in the early discussions of the DAP, the first incarnation of what later became the NSDAP. According to this author, Hitler’s main contribution was his gift for public speaking and propaganda, and his willingness to erect a personality cult in his own name, rather than any specific political idea.

In this passage, Fest describes how Hitler became the Führer, with some help from poet-occultist Dietrich Eckhart. The following indicates that Hitler had some marketing specialists behind him, like the kind of producers and image-managers that marketed Madonna and Britney Spears to the world.

Eckhart had already gotten to know Hitler early on, and during the Kapp-Coup in March 1920 both travelled to Berlin by order of some national backers, to observe the situation there. As a well-read man and an expert with people, who had a broad knowledge and likewise broad prejudices, he had a great influence on the provincial and awkward Hitler. He was, thanks to his uncomplicated manner, the first person with a middle-class educational background who Hitler could stand to be around, without calling to the fore his deep-lying complexes. He loaned and recommended him books, trained him in good manners, corrected his German and opened many doors for him: for a time they were an inseparable pair on the Münchener social scene. Already in 1919 Eckhart had prophecied, in a skillfully and self-consciously antiquated poem, the arising of a national Saviour: “a lad”, as he said in a different place, “who can hear a machine-gun. The herd has to be scared shitless. I can’t use an officer, the people have no respect for them anymore. Best of all would be a worker, who has his mouth on the right side of his head…. He doesn’t need to have much intelligence, politics is the stupidest business in the world.” One who always would have a “hefty answer” for the Reds, would be better to him than “a dozen learned Professors, who sit trembling on the wet pants-bottoms of facts.” And finally he demanded: “It has to be a bachelor! Then we will get the women.” Not without some amazement, he considered Hitler the embodiment of this model and celebrated him already in August 1921 in an article in the Völkische Beobachter for the first time as “the Leader” (Führer)...

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Posted by Potential Frolic on Sunday, August 26, 2007 at 11:55 AM in
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