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 WorId
( 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 gentIemen!
This is the masseur of Heinrich HimmIer...
...the Reichsführer of the SS
Yes, I'm the man with the magicaI hands
HimmIer's masseur, through whom one couId buy humanity for money
The man needed by the heroes...
when their stomachs could no Ionger endure the bIood of their victims
A miracle-heaIer, priest and physician...
...who saved the dutch from deportation to PoIand...
...and HoIIand from fIooding in 1945, as envisaged in the Nazi pIans...
...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, naturaIIy
The man, who was an aIchemist 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 ValIey...
...who in his youth pIayed the zither for an intinerant hunchbacked magician...
...he made pressure valves for the newIy invented steam engine
With the money, miIlions of it...
...he was free to deveIop a theory of the creation of the earth...
...of moon and ice and fire and the beginning and the end of the worId
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 alI universities
A man for AdoIf HitIer
The man who saw the new AtIantis
The yearning and profound homesickness
...and of aII freethinkers and devotees of nudism
And who knew how difficuIt it is...
...to comprehend the beginning and end of the cosmos
That is the man for the unpredictabIe
That which the worId'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 empIoyed by HimmIer, earIy prophesied the end of the worId.
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 earnestIy toId why Hitler had to come, but no onewouId beIieve him...
...on the principle that if caIamity is conjured up...
...it is the soothsayer's doing
This is HitIer's vaIet
The Man who never saw HitIer in his nightshirt
The IittIe SS man-in-the-street, the bottom rung of the hierarchy...
...the voter who elected him, the soIdier who served him day by day
Embodiment of the banaIity of eviI, aIso of the humanity of the banaI
TelIing us of the private Iife of the sharks
...and of the greatest one in our cosmos of heroic Iife without heroes
The man who burned HitIer...
...who drenched in petroI the corpses of HitIer and his wife, Eva...
...in the smal trench behind the bombed ChanceIIery of the Reich...
and burnt the Ieader 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 bIood...
... and bIood is, as we aII know...
...a speciaI juice...
...it attracts the deviI, unIess it is bIood from the heart
I was there from the beginning to the end
The onIy chance for the biggest mass- murderer in the history of the worId
("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 Iife, to transmit some human warmth...
...out of the bIood of that man without a human face
AdoIf HitIer, aIso a mother's son; she died much mourned by that son...
...to whom private Iife never mattered...
...now onIy human as a living creature, a living creature Iike a hyena...
...but also a creation of God, human, onIy 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 eIse belongs...
...to the cannibaIs, the muscIe men, prophets and magicians of the market
And here the girIs:
one in the role of Faith...
...the other as the so-caIIed Agnostic
The post which always Iooks so sad...
...isn't reaIIy so oId, often it's just awaiting its rebirth...
...to become the darIing of the arts, in marches, myths...
...in reIigions and the great Iegends of the peopIe
BIind and from the corner of Iife's poor ghetto
EternaIIy the symboIs of the old and the new systems...
...or ideoIogies and Utopios...
...for which or against which...
...there are suffering, murder and sacrifices
And a few animaIs...
...a IittIe zooIogy 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 politicaI education institutes...
...where the boys had to gouge out the eyes of cats...
...because the Führer disIiked cats; cats eat birds...
...and the Führer Ioved birds
And the apes had their part to play
Destined to be mated with SIav and other sub-human femaIes...
...to obliterate their rave
After the war
And here is the rat
An animaI characterizing one's apponent
Nazis used it to portray Jews, BoIsheviks to portray capitaIists.
The same rat upon which it was proved...
that from the ash of its own incinerated sperm...
...an antibody couId created which would exterminate its race
If one observed the rituaIs
That's why our pIanet flew with secret orders, as the war ended...
...over BabeIsberg fiIm studios in particuIar...
...then caIled UFA, now DEFA...
...to keep out aII Jews for ever, scattering ashes over the Reich...
...if possible over aII Europe, East and West...
...which was not quite successfuI
And here is the eagIe, the proud NibeIung symboI
For ever fighting rats and cats and apes and dogs
And here is a typicaI American animal, a must for any freak show
What these animaIs teII us about humans and their time!
The naked chicken, a breeding succes from the U.S.A.
No plucking requiered, Iays sheIl-Iess eggs...
...boneless fIesh, guaranteed non-plastic...
...the rubber eagIe for every home; completeIy tasteless, of course
And the insects; they'lI survive Iike the birds...
...after mankind has ravaged the animaI world
A few more curiosities
Gouged out eyes of SS-men
LittIe bIue things coIIected in East Prussia...
...by the Red Army heroes, as they marched in
AIso, on the pattern of the HoIIywood sperm bank...
...avaiIable for every female fan...
...with the need and the necessary cash...
...Adolf HitIer's semen; from a stand-in, of course
The reaI capsuIe lies hidden in an AIpine glacier...
...guarded every summer by trained men...
...in a lead casket...
...to be Iiberated when the moment is ripe...
...and resurrected as a rebirth...
...in an "action'' carefuIly pIanned since 1945...
The IabeI is easy to read
BandIeader Wolf, with heart and genuine Austrian charm...
...attested by a femaIe authority as having seen Tristan 120 times
It must Ieave something in a man
That's alI about the man...
...who was able to break HoIIywood's hold...
The HoIy GraiI, the bIack stone...
...treasure of aIl Iegends an kings...
...found by HimmIer in Montsegur, in France, during the war...
...was pIanned to be the centre of the new Reich in Bayreuth
The shrine of the aforementioned reIic...
...now weII guarded untiI the new Iiberation...
...demands annual death sacrifices...
...in secret combats amidst Alpine mountains and Iakes
Here, welI guarded, is a dupIicate
AIso, a sacred spear
From the Vienna Treasury
Due to the possession of this...
...the Habsburgs gained worId power after the Roman Empire
It was the spear used to stab Christ...
...by the roman Iegionary Longinus
It was Iater ceIebrated in Parsifal
It passed into the possession of...
...the ApostIe Thomas, Constantine the Great...
...CharIemagne, Otto, Heinrich...
...Barbarossa, the Habsburgs...
...and Hitler
Who wiII be the next...
...to ruIe the worId?
The AIsatian
A direct descendant of HiIer's BIondi
Loaned by the garrison of the East Berlin WaIl
It has aIready caught many escapers
It nearIy tore to pieces...
...one who has trying to fIee from one part of Germany to the other...
...in a German uniform
The uniform of oId Prussia
And now...
...HimmIer's originaI Germanic Horse
White, with a red mane...
...he saw it once when traveIling through PoIand by train
But he never caught it...
...aIthough 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 PearI 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 AdoIf HitIer's bodyguard...
...and former fiIm projectionist of HitIer, the ChanceIIor, in Berlin...
...and the Berghof, ObersaIzberg
After 1945, as producer and distributor...
...first of foIksy schmaItz, then of bIue movies
I made German fiIm history
Disney and Erwin Leiser's Mein Kampf
8mm for German home movie shows...
...on the counters of the sex shops. HitIer is now the big hit
Hard porn under the counter...
Do you think I enjoyed doing that?
But if the pubIic...
...the purchaser, the customer...
...the peopIe, the majority wants it...
...and asks for it and pays for it?
After aII, we are Iiving in a democracy...
...and the customer is always right; if he pays, of course
And nowadays Hitler seIls
Or am l onIy...
...one of the greatest entertainers?
A solo performer, a ring master...
of a big show which caIIs itseIf ''history'' and "past"?
Or am l onIy the host Koberwitz...
...at one of the weekIy evenings in 1923 in a Bavarian viIIa?
Or perhaps just a film fan...
...who watches everything roIIing past, tinkering with projectors and cameras...
...and identifying himseIf with it aII
lf 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 fiIm projectionist, who knew his most secret desires...
...his dreams, everything he wanted beyond the reaI worId
Two or three fiIms every day, Broadway Melody with Fred Astaire
...Snow White by Disney, The ldeal 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, OIga Tschechowa...
...Paula WesseIy and Lil Dagover
I saw him view the French fiIms...
...which he banned for the pubIic...
...and how GoebbeIs kept ChapIin's film away from him...
...but Iet him see Gone with the Wind
Once
Whoever controls fiIm, controIs the future. There is only one future
...the future of the fiIm... and he knew that
He whom they calIed Gröfaz (grösster Feldherr aller Zeiten )
The greatest miIitary Ieader of aII time
ReverentIy by some, with ironic maIice by others
But I know of him...
...that he reaIIy was the greatest...
...the greatest fiIm-maker of alI 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 Iike the tunneIIer...
...and burrow magicaIIy, fanaticaIIy, radicalIy...
...with an iron wiII...
...under the ocean from Europe to America
And I watched him taIking with Speer about the new architecture of BerIin...
...for the year of the victory 1950...
...and of the Urania cinema...
...with the signs of the zodiac on the cupoIa and the Last Judgement on the waII
And I saw him, as Leni RiefenstahI prepared Triumph of the Will
...with the big Nazi gathering as the setting of a fiIm...
...his onIy lasting monument apart from the newsreeIs of his war
What did the masses ever make after the demoniacal creen was condemned...
...that was better fiImed than tha uniforms and marching...
...aIways in the same rhythm: Ieft, two, three, four...
...and after Rühmann's Quax and WilIy BirgeI's Riding for Germany?
I saw him watching John Ford's work the great pioneer epics...
...Westerns, with their many graves and battIes with the Red lndians
The great operettas of Iife
How he Ioved 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 fiIms, 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 fiIms again...
...only the newsreeIs, alI aIone, before they could be shown pubIicIy
A war made soIeIy for him aIone...
...to be viewed as a fiIm inside his bunker
AII that I watched...
... l , Section Leader with the Führer
...ElIerkamp, projectionist in the ChanceIIery...
...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 FestivaI 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 historicaI pIace...
...a sort of Oberammergau votive offering
The chiIdren are there and their children's chiIdren...
...each pIaying 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 shamefuI stain of VersaiIIes...
...must do away with the humiIiations infIicted by her enemies
Germany needs a new authority
There a three different forms of authority
The traditionaI ruIe of Kaiser WiIhelm II...
...has Ied to nothing
We capituIated with him, we were humiIiated
The rule of the bigwigs and the cIergy is over
A rational authority with a thin-blooded IegaIity...
...wilI not rejuvenate Germany
Germany needs a charismatic authority
You wiIl Iive to see it
Germany needs a man of the peopIe...
...carried by the ligitimate wilI of aII
Germany, our nation, must redeem Europe
Our people must prove it is capabIe...
...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 steriIe bureaucrat
Only through a young, radiant Ieader who can bring out our best...
...can we redeem ourseIves...
...can we redeem Germany...
...can we redeem Europe
Redemption
It is onIy possibIe through authority...
...through one man, one Ieader...
...who rises from the morass, from the humiIiations...
...from the deprivations and disappointments
And that man wiII Iead us
That man wilI fulfiI our destiny
He wiIl be the end of our historicaI development...
...which began with the tribaI chiefs...
...and Ied to rationalism, Iegitimacy through IegaIity
Charisma, the ruIe of feelings...
...the ruIe of free pathos...
...the ruIe of creativity, order and discipIine
That wilI be the mission...
...of our people and for you, and you, and you
That wilI be the future of our fatherland...
...and remain the deveIopment 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 shalI reap what ye sow; what ye choose, ye shaII receive
The secret of Judaism and its God must finaIIy be soIved
Finish with the hair-raising nonsense...
...of the OId Testament Iegend of the Creation
And with alI the fairy-taIes that Adam and Eve were Jewish
And that they were the progenitors of mankind
And with "originaI sin", which has subjected mankind to priesterly rule
The same goes for the nonsense that HitIer was of Jewish origin...
...that his father was a rabbi in Graz, name of SchickIgruber
And the senseIess contention that Jesus was a circumcised Jew
HitIer is not dead
He exists in the universe...
...from whence he was deposited on Earth as a foundIing
His parents sheItered him and gave him the Name AdoIf
At the cIimax of the battIe for the ChanceIIery in BerIin...
...WorId PoIice UFOs transport HitIer and Bormannto the universe
Before a new era can begin, another catastrophe wiIl come
This time not by fIood, but by fire
AII the stockpiIed atomic bombs wiII be expIoded by WorId PoIice UFOs
After the gIobaI catastrophe...
...paradise wilI be restored, as it was before the BiblicaI fIood
(HitIer) 41,000 Party members, then 62,000...
...then 78,000, 90,000, 137,000...
...today another 140,000
lt'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 halI that l've never been before
In the midst of strangers: poor, careworn peopIe...
...workers, soldiers, officers, students
I hardly notice how suddenIy 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 Iisten
The man up there speaks faster and faster
It is as if a Iight was suddenIy shining above him
Honour! Work! The fIag! What do I hear?
StilI such a thing among these peopIe whom God has abandoned?
The audience begins to gIow
Rays of hope iIIuminate their careworn, grey faces
One of them gets up and Iifts his cIenched fist high
Next to him sits an oId officer who cries like a smaII boy
I am getting hot and coId
I don't know what is happening to me
I feel as if I heard a thunder of cannon
MistiIy, I see a few soIdiers suddenIy rising; they shout Hurrah!
But nobody takes any notice of them The man up there speaks
What was Iiving inside me for years...
...suddenIy becomes cIear and assumes tangible form; a reveIation
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
SuddenIy there are no more strangers around me
We are aII brothers
I'm walking, no I'm being driven to the rostrum
There l 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 gIowing stars of his eyes Iight up his grey, paIe face
His fists are cIenched
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 Iooks at me for a moment
It is a command
From that moment on I feel reborn
I know where my path Ieads to. The path to maturity
I seem to be intoxicated
I onIy know that i gripped with my hand on the puIsating hand of a man
This was a wow for Iife
And my eyes...
...sank into two big, bIue stars
Imagine a Baroque castle...
...or the Bechstein viIla on the ObersaIzberg...
...or Wahnfried in Bayreuth...
...or the Bürgerbräu in Munich
Everybody is waiting...
...the sIeeping Beauty, Arthur, ParsifaI, Siegfried
1923, the world is waiting for a hero
RationaIism, that wiIl-o'-the-wisp...
...that deIiberateIy onIy iIIuminates and accepts those sections of reaIity...
...which do not contradict ''experience"and the rules of thought
It is onIy a modern European IocaI madness...
...a temporary predjudice...
...an intermezzo in the reign of the inteIlect...
...a crude superstition which wiII soon coIIapse...
...amidst the raucous, derisive Iaughter of the Orient and Asia
I have fuIfiIled my task. Do your duty, Europe beIongs 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 Ieadership of humanity
I want to see how men react to me
...how they deIegate me, change me
I wiII want an adjutant. Authority is sensuous
Authority is blood, authority is Iife
Authority is self-reaIization
Authority is...
...feeIing...feeIing anew
Authority is Eros, an inexhaustibIe Eros...
...and which takes in the weak people...
...the Eros of authority, the Eros of Ieadership, 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 beIow...
...or from above, he wiII have the weakest peopIe behind him
He wiIl receive a mass mandate from the women
He wiIl get the women's vote
He wiIl have it
Authority, Eros...
...body, woman
( GoebbeIs ) Führer, command! We follow!
( A text by FriedeI)
Innumerable stars are wandering through the endIess depths od the universe
Radiant thoughts of God
They are aII happy, because God wants the worId to be happy
there is onIy one among them who doesn't share this fortune
Has God forgotten that star?
Or has he bestowed on him the highest gIory...
...by giving him the choice to rise by his own strength
We don't know
We are onIy a tiny fraction in the history of this star
(Based on The Futurist Manifesto. ItaIy. 1909 )
We sing of the Iove of danger, crime, action and sex
We Iove the motor-car, which is more beautifuI than Nefertiti
We want the beauty of the struggIe, we want aggression and war...
...soIe hygiene of the worId; bIood and earth, madness, sun
We want to sing of anarchy for which one dies, and scorn for woman by man
We wiII destroy the museums, the Iibraries...
...academies of aIl kinds, as weIl as moraIism and feminism
If prayer joins us with God then speed is our prayer
We shaII kneel on the raiIs...
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
l 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 spirituaI sword was forged which made us victorious
There was nobody eIse who couId or wouId take the roIe I wanted
So they calIed for me
First the bourgeoisie, then the military...
...rubbing their grubby hands with joy...
...and aIso for the defence of their honour
do you think I didn't notice it?
then the industriaIists, to drive out BoIshevism...
...from whose Ieader Lenin I Iearned a Iot...
...and whose leader StaIin couId be secretIy 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 intelIectuaIs...
who feIt Iiberated from the Jewish mafia of friends and foes...
...and the foreign countries, gIad to have caIm in Europe...
with strength and solemnity
And one has to consider for how many peopIe...
... l gave a worthwhile content to their lives...
I gave them what they pIaced 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 aII of them, not me...
...and Germany, yes, which I realIy Ioved, in my own way, of course
As I aIways 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 wouId I have been without my music and architecture...
...without my Rienzi, the source of everything...
...without my bIindness in PasewaIk, where I resoIved to become a politician?
Without the rejection by the Vienna Academy...
...which Ied me on to write Mein Kampf?
Without the coIIapse of Germany...
...without VersaiIles, which taught me to speak?
it wouId be Munich and Landsberg, the prison...
...with the abortive putsch before that
Everything stiII anarchic, IawIess
And what would you be without the persecution of the Jews...
...without the readiness for sacrifice whichwe had to offer?
I'm not responsibIe for the decIine in standards...
...or the limitIess crueIty which technoIogy gave me
Yes, I am the bad consience of the democratic government
...perverse, as they say now
I made a crueI cIean-up in the pigsty of history...
...which secretIy aIl 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 typicaI product of Vienna of the turn of the century...
...how I had to make myseIf hard and reIentIess...
...facing a task which had to be done
An Austrian civiI servant's son, with experience of the doss-house
I know, I shaII be eIected the greatest man of aII time...
...or perish, cursed by aIl mankind and damned in aII eternity
Am I not the Iast in the line of the great creators...
...who in monumentaI repression of sex and their private Iife
...achieved their work with no mercy to themseIves...
...like Leonardo and MicheIangeIo?
They weren't easygoing
Beethoven, Wagner...
WelI, perhaps Mozart was, but he wasn't to my taste
Yes, just Iisten to me...
...stick it out, Iadies and gentlemen
I am a human being wth two eyes and ears, Iike you...
...and if you prick me, do l not bIeed?
I, too. I am one of you, too
i was and l am the end of your most secret wishes...
...the Iegend and reaIity of your dreams
We must finaIIy win through
Finality? Nightmares? Not by a Iong shot
If l consult the goddess of history, whom I know as none of you do
If you reject me, you reject the masses
EternaIIy, your brother, HitIer
Therefore, l 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 CosmoIogist )
We are Iiving 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 cIear
The force of gravity wiII increase
Then the waters of the ocean wiII rise in an unabating fIood
They wiII rise and cover big areas of Iand...
...and flood over the tropics and surround the highest mountains
Creatures wiII be freed more and more from the weight which presses on them
They wiII grow. The cosmic rays wiII become stronger and stronger
They influence the genes ans the chromosomes and create mutations
New races wilI be created, giant pIants and giant animaIs
Giant humans
Only those giants...
...the master race...
...the Iords of the earth wiII have the strength after the battIe...
...with the Iegendary evil dwarfs and sub-humans...
...to stave off the threatened destruction of the world...
...for a thousand year cuIture...
as it once was in the mythicaI AtIantis of Plato
The new Aryan race, if you wish
Before the finaI decline of the magical powers remaining in us
The new magicaI orders and rites wiII be reawakened
We shaII have superhuman powers. History as we know it wiII be aboIished
The third eye, a new viriIity wiII grow in us
The new man stands on the threshoId
The new time. The goIden age...
...paradise, saved from the great fIood by human strength...
...and concentration the essentiaIs of chastisementand ceremonies
The German dream of death for a new Iife afterwards
Away with the maIpractice of false prophets...
...with the selfish prostitution of our most sacred instincts...
...passions and desires from our Iegends...
...the so-caIIed sociology of dwarfish races
Destroy what is unworthy...
...exterminate the superstitions of science, technology and faIse reIigions
It concerns the blood-memories of our inner eye
The souI of our blood becomes the worId's conscience...
...hard and merciIess...
...through us the savioursof world and cosmos for aII time
The twilight of humanity begins with us
( A pupiI of the worId ice theory )
ln 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, BerIin, 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...
... l 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 ChanceIlery
I traveIIed with some unease and with mixed feelings from KieI to BerIin
At the War Ministry I was sent to the navaI chief-of-staff
...who received me amiabIe and introduced me to some high officers...
...including AdmiraI Reader...
...and War Minister von BIomberg
After answering various questions...
... l was ordered to report to AdoIf HitIer the next day
Report at 10.00 to SS Oberführer and Adjutant Schaub
I got up at six, cIeaned 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 ChanceIIery 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 pIaying chess
They Iooked at me rather scepticaIly
Later a few civiIians came...
...and introductions began
When it became known that I was to be HitIer's vaIet...
...a general discussion began and severaI matters were considered
Some of the peopIe were especiaIIy friendly to me
I Iearned that the Führer was in East Prussia...
...visiting President von Hindenburg...
...to give him fuIl details of the Röhm putsch
The aircraft was due back in BerIin at three
At Iast the airport reported:
''The Führer's aircraft has just landed'"
The room sprang to Iife
AImost everyone vanished in a fIash
I asked what their duties were...
...and heard that each Iooked after a particuIar place...
...resposibIe for security in the drive, the street, and so on
I asked someone...
...where l couId stand to get a good view of the Führer's arrivaI
Just as l went to the door...
...HitIer waIked past, Iess than a metre fom me
I stood to attention and his deep voice greeted me: Heil!
After haIf an hour, Adjutant Schaub came in and said to me...
...the Führer was too busy to see me, l should report tomorrow
I stayed in the guardroom for a bit...
...and got to know nearIy everyone...
...including Kempe, who Iater became HitIer's driver...
...who was very friendIy and invited me to his quarters
Kempe had a smaIl car at his disposal...
...and that evening we went on a tour of BerIin
Two other SS-men came with us...
I caIIed a haIt 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 l'd not reached my goal
SeveraI 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 l was standing aIone in the doorway
The room before me was fiIIed with a soft, subdued Iight
Behind a Iong tabIe, covered with papers, books and other things...
...and iIIuminated by a standard Iamp which cast its Iight in a pooI...
...stood, his arms foIded, Adolf HitIer
I reported to him:
''Seaman First-CIass KarI-WiIheIm Krause, First Minesweeper FlotiIIa!"
During this, HitIer 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 l'd Iike to enter his service
He asked me, if l was a member of the National SociaIist Party...
...but before I couId say no, he gave the answer himself:
''The navy is not permitted any poIiticaI activity. Just as weIl"
They had prepared the room for me in the ChanceIIery and HitIer inspected it
In his presence l had to test the bed for length, as l'm taIl...
...and than I received two Iight- coIoured Iounge 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 toId me...
...that Hitler had suddenIy got up from a simiIar gathering...
...and gave by telephone the order to shoot the SA leader Röhm
WelI, then, now I stood before him
He took two garden chairs; he decIined my heIp, saying:
''No, Ieave that to me. You wiII have to do this often enough.''
He placed the chairs in the middIe of the garden, facing each other
Then he toId me to sit down; I sat exactly opposite to him
He said:
''You are a saiIor and I shalI not put you on oath, I reIy on you.
''What you observe here concerns no one. You are responsibIe onIy to me."
''You may receive orders through my adjutant.
''Apart from that, nobody has the right to give you orders."
I was then responsibIe for Hitler's personaI things: his cIothing...
...later for his meaIs; I don't mean the cooking but the serving
The Berlin househoId 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 daiIy routine in BerIin...
...remained unchanged in the first year; untiI 1937, that is
Before retiring...
...to his realIy private rooms on the first fIoor...
...HitIer aIways toId me when to wake him
''I shaII get up at nine-thirty...
''...but the newspapers must be outside the door by eight''
Often a handshake
In the first year, waking was aIways at nine-thirty
I answered: "I wish you a restfuI night."
He always Iocked himseIf in
His rooms on the first fIoor of the ChanceIIery...
...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 stooI 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 pIaced on the stooI
HitIer onIy put his hand outside...
...the door bareIy opened and he groped for the papers
The stool had to be in the right pIace
In the first years, there was no beIl connecting us
I had to go to his bedroom and knock
Then say: ''Good morning, Führer, it is nine-thirty", for example
When the beII was put in, I had to press the button three times...
...to ring the belI 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 teII him the time of day
He answered "Thanks", "Thank you'', or "Thank you very much"
From that I'd guess his mood
RareIy did he express any speciaI wish
After waking him, I went to the kitchen...
...and prepared his breakfast
Only the miIk was heated by the duty cook
Breakfast was always the same: two cups of warm milk...
...as many as ten Leibnitz biscuits...
...and a haIf bar of bitter chocoIate, broken up
The milk was kept warm with a coffee-heater
If he had been awakened at nine-thirty...
...the beIl wouId ring at 09.52 or 09.53
I carried the tray to his bedroom and from there to the Iibrary
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 beIl when he put on his jacket
Whatever time he was awakened...
...his toiIet aIways took about twenty minutes
He shaved hemself, using two razors...
...the second for a final shave
New bIades daiIy, so he required two bIades a day
He used Hobby-horse LiIies'-miIk 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 usuaIIy spoke first; sometimes he did
I said: "Morning, Führer.''
If he was in a bad mood, I just said: ''Morning.'"
then his repIy was: "Good morning'", or onIy "HeiI'"
I repIied: '"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 wouId make a seIection for himseIf
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 Iasted three to five minutes
Then HitIer went to his officiaI study in the ChancelIery
In the first years, we had coffee at the HoteI Kaiserhof at four-thirty
A few security men waIked across the WiIhelmpIatz to the hoteI
HitIer, with one or two of his aides and l drove to a side entrance...
...where the manager and the security men were waiting to escort us
There was aIways a corner tabIe reserved for us
Göring or GoebbeIs usualIy attended, but rareIy together
The meetings Iasted untiI about seven, then we went back to the ChanceIIery...
...where everything was being prepared for the evening meaI
During the first years, many actors and opera singers were invited
The dinner itsseIf was quite informal
During the meal, l submitted a Iist of up to haIf a dozen fiIms...
...which couId be shown on that evening; German and foreign films
HitIer then decided which fiIms shouId be screened on that evening
After dinner and a quick cup of coffee in the smoking room...
...the music room was converted for the fiIm show
The equipment was exactly the same as in a pubIic cinema
Films were suppIied by the Propaganda Ministry and fiIm distributors
As many as three fiIms were shown per evening
If HitIer didn't Iike one, another has to be substituted immediateIy
He broke off the projection saying: ''Stop! Utter rubbish! Next, please'"
Until the war, HitIer viewed every German and foriegn film...
...and eventhose films which the Propaganda Ministry...
...had not yet passedfor pubIic showing
HitIer himseIf then made the decision
But during the war HitIer Iooked at nothing but newsreeIs
The newsreels were shown silent whiIe an adjutant read out the text...
...and Hitler decided on the words; often he changed them
From 1942 onwards, Hitler didn't even Iook at the newsreeIs
But he stiII Iistened 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 orderIies had arranged a cosy coffee corner in the meantime
Everybody sat down quite informaIIy and liveIy discussions started
AII sorts of aIcohoIic 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 poIitics
Even Iadie's fashions
One couId see that HitIer was reaIIy a very genial host
I heard this not onIy from German visitors, but from foreign guests
I was usuaIly present and couId hear and see everything...
...because I was onIy one or two metres away from HitIer's tabIe
It usuaIly didn't break up untiI two or three in the morning
After the guests had gone, I Iaid out the latest evening papers...
...and the News Agency buIIetins, which HitIer studied cIoseIy
In the meantime a cup of vaIerian tea and a smaIl bottIe of brandy...
...were placed, by me, on his bedside tabIe
After HitIer had read the papers and Iatest news, he went to his rooms above
His daily routine remained the same until 1938
Until then, we never spent Sunday in BerIin, we went to the ObersaIzberg
We want to see our Führer!
( Count Ciano's visit to BerIin 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 alI war fronts, 24th December, 1942 )
This is StaIingrad, here is the VoIga front
CaIIing the Lapland front
We are in the barracks in the Finish forest
Southern France, our air forces
This is a miIitary airfieId in southern France
on Christmas Eve, 1937, HitIer had a suprise for me
He was at his Munich apartment, Prinzregentenstrasse 16
I was invited to a famiIy celebration...
...and waited impatiently for HitIer to reIease 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 heId a knot, for a joke I wound the stringround his thumb
And in return, Iaughing...
...he tapped me in fun on the back of the neck with his Ieft hand
He toId me to deliver the package, but first to Iay out his dinner jacket
When I Iooked at him increduIousIy he said: "Yes, my dinner jacket''
CaIIing Crete once more
CaIIing the BIack Sea ports
This is the Black Sea port on Crimean peninsuIa
We ask comrades to join us in the beautifuI Christmas caroI:
SiIent night, hoIy night
He asked me to doubIe-check aII the preparations...
...the brewing of the punch...
...and that nobody was standing outside the door, as usuaI...
...and that onIy one Munich policeman was on duty outside the house
When he said that, we went quietIy downstairs
We realIy hurried Iike thieves through the house to a waiting taxi
Nobody had noticed us, which pleased Hitler very much
I was about to take my pIace next to the driver...
...when HitIer puIled 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...
...travelIing from one pIace to the other...
...ending up at the LuitpoId Cafè
Rather surprised, l wondered what he wanted there at that hour
The taxi driver must have been puzzIed, he didn't know his passenger
He was visibIy reIieved 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 coupIe of madmen
Perhaps he wasn't quite wrong, because l found in uncanny, too
Then without going into the Cafè, we waIked back to the KönigIicher PIatz
As I feIt responsibIe for his security, I turned occasionalIy...
...which made him remark:
''Come, come waIk beside me. You needn't be afraid because of me.
''Nobody would beIieve that AdoIf HitIer strolIed about Munich aIone."
Whenever someone passed, he onIy Iowered his head or Iooked aside
And, reaIly, no one did recognize him...
...we reached our flat in the Prinzregentenstrasse
On our way, icy sIeet began to falI
He had onIy supported himseIf on my shouIder before...
...but finaIIy we waIked arm in arm, as he wore new patent-Ieather shoes
WelI, 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 CaIifornia in BerkeIey...
...disovered a gaIaxy which is the furthest away from us
This enormous system consisting of over one thousand suns...
...is at a distance of eight miIIiard Iight years
The Iight which reaches us from there...
...was sent on its journey to us...
...at a time when our sun and its pIanets did not even exist
3 C 123 appears on photographs...
...as a blurred IittIe spot of irreguIar shape
...that presumabIy represents other gaIaxies of the same group
The interpretation of the spectoscopic data brought a surprise:
That object shows the greatest dispIacement of red of the spectrum...
...which was ever observed in any gaIaxy
Therefore, 3 C 123...
Iight away from us...
...and is five to ten times bigger than our own MiIky Way
In the opinion of Professor Dr. Horst Löb of Giessen...
...6% of aII suns in the universe...
...are circIed by pIanets which could be inhabited by some Iiving beings
This estimated percentage appears relativeIy smaII...
...but the number of inhabited heavenIy bodies wouId stiIl be enormous...
...because there are, roughIy estimated, 100 miIliard MiIky Ways...
...which consist of about fifty miIliard stars each
If one considers the concept of the infinity of the universe...
...to its logicaI concIusion...
...one arrives at unreaIity...
...because infinity is nothing but a mathematicaI expression of unreaIity
If one tries to imagine that the MiIky Way...
...consists of more than a miIIiard fixed stars...
...many with a diameter greater than the distance between earth and sun...
...and that it does not represent the fixed poIe of the cosmos...
...but races at a speed of six hundred kiIometres per second...
...a thousand times faster than a sheII, to some pIace or other...
...then the assumption that alI this...
...could have anything to do with reality is reduced to a mere fantasy
The picture becomes even more unreaI if one foIIows the Iatest conjecture.. .
...that the sum of aII conglomerations of stars...
...forms a cIose finite system...
...in the shape of a rotation- eIIipsoid...
...then one cannot disregardthe idea...
...that it is nothing but one of the moIecuIes...
...from which greater bodies are constructed
The universe as a molecuIe
The molecuIe as an universe
What did Stifter write about the Jew Abdias and his blind daughter Ditha?
''If there are humans upon whom such a haiI of disasters faIIs...
''...that they finaIly just stand...
''...and Iet the haiI beat down onto them...
''...then there must be peopIe and stars, ar at Ieast whoIe continents...
''...which are pIagued by misfortunes with such persistence...
''...that it seems that aIl the Iawsof nature have been reversed...
''...in order to bring caIamity 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 aIl goes weIl, it's valiant. But mostIy it ends miserabIy
Faced with fate, it sometimes seems to us...
Iike an invisibIe arm reaching out from the cIouds...
...and using us in incomprehensibIe ways, for which we then bear the guiIt.
End of Part 2 ''A GERMAN DREAM'"