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18. Dark Magnetic Eyes
18. Dark Magnetic Eyes
“Welcome to our Berghof,” says Eva escorting me into the vestibule. Bullet-head butler in black cutaway – very von Stroheim - takes me to second floor göstraum where blind masseur gives me a brisk Swedish massage. Later, butler, whose name is Eric, returns and escorts me to supper mit den Fuhrer.
Supper is in candle-lit, ancient-brick, mahogany-floor, high-ceiling room. Adolf and Eva are already seated at opposite ends of long white-cloth hardwood table, their faces eerily flickering in light of 8-flame candelabra at center of table.
Along one length is a glass-panel, panoramic window with striking moonlit view of Bavarian Alps . Candle light throws distorted shadow on wall hung with medieval painting depicting scene from the Hundred Years War. On ceiling directly above is fresco of mythic war scene with Aryan blonde Valkyrie maidens being sent by Odin to find battlefield dead for Valhalla heaven. Behind Adolf’s chair is big brick unlit fireplace before which stretches huge shaggy black dog - a mastiff who watches me with brooding, unnerving intensity. Both Adolf and Eva are in silent meditation; Adolf is in brown Bavarian mountaineer pants held up by maroon braces and Eva in high-necked long-sleeved black long dress.
Dinner is French, meatless and served with side sauces and cheeses but no wine or aperitif to start nor coffee or tea later. We eat in silence with only occasional clink of plate as white-uniformed waiter efficiently and quietly moves back and forth serving each new course. Host and hostess are fastidious eaters.
Eating ends. Eva stands, bows slightly and exits leaving me alone with Adolf Hitler. Even I, Yosuke Matsuoka, proud of my self control and ability to know my lines, even I, find my hands trembling. Hitler sits looking straight ahead. Then his dark magnetic eyes fasten on me.
19. Surprises
Adolf speaks astonishingly accurate English; but his Irish accent is my first real surprise! He knows it is incredible he would tell his secret history and prefaces it by saying he tells me this because his World Plan depends on it. He has studied my life and knows I am futurist. It is not that he has confidence in me to keep what he says secret, but what he will tell is so fantastic that he is sure on hearing it I will realize that to tell it around will backfire, in that anyone who asserts that he, Hitler, has said it will be rapidly carted off for lunacy. Especially since all evidence has been deleted! That is his chilling phrase since I could become part of the deleted.
Next surprise: Hitler is quarter Jew! It is fact that Adolf''s father Alois was illegitimate son of a peasant woman, ‘Schicklgruber’ her family name. It is checkable because father Alois was born “illegitimate” on parish birth record, 7 June 1837, and from the date one can calculate that conception occurred the previous year counting 3 months forward and 7 days back to 31 August 1836 give or take a day or two. The Great Graz (Austria) Summer Harvest Fair of 1836 was the occasion for Fraulein Schicklgruber’s hiring herself out to help a Jewish merchant to show his ware at the Fair; and sexual intercourse occurred and at the fair's end she was let go and she never told the merchant of her pregnancy because, being honest, ignorant, religious Roman Catholic country girl, she feared if he found out he would take the child from her and raise it a Jew, and she could not allow that because her religion instructed her that even if she had a bastard it must be raised in the true faith. Only she later told the true fact to Alois because with mother’s love she felt a son should know the identity of his real father. The secret was well hidden, even with baby Alois being born bastard, because his mother when he was one-year-old married a local villager who was willing to accept her bastard. And with approval of parish priest the birth record was altered and the husband had his name written in as father in backdated entry. This allowed Alois to give up ‘Schicklgruber’ and assume stepfather’s ‘Hiedler’ and Alois changed the name legally to ‘Hitler’ twelve years before Adolf arrived.
By grammar-school, Adolf knew of his Jewish root and, despite the secrecy of his paternal grandmother and father someone, somewhere, sometime suspected it. So the story of Hitler's Jew root bugged him in childhood. And as should not be surprising, a child under suspicion of having a hated origin becomes on his surface ultra against such origin; so, Hitler affected anti-Semitism. But he was secretly fascinated with the concept of Super-Jew. It seemed to Adolf that in Jew genes is the Ubermensch, the Nieztschean superman. From the first biblical patriarch to Moses to King David to Daniel to Jesus to Jewish pope to Spinoza to Karl Marx to Einstein, the Jew genes give genius and Adolf meant them to make his genie.
By grammar-school, Adolf knew of his Jewish root and, despite the secrecy of his paternal grandmother and father someone, somewhere, sometime suspected it. So the story of Hitler's Jew root bugged him in childhood. And as should not be surprising, a child under suspicion of having a hated origin becomes on his surface ultra against such origin; so, Hitler affected anti-Semitism. But he was secretly fascinated with the concept of Super-Jew. It seemed to Adolf that in Jew genes is the Ubermensch, the Nieztschean superman. From the first biblical patriarch to Moses to King David to Daniel to Jesus to Jewish pope to Spinoza to Karl Marx to Einstein, the Jew genes give genius and Adolf meant them to make his genie.
By graduation from high school, with father dead, mother dying and older step brother in England, Adolf came to Vienna . These Vienna years formed his future. Living by beggary if not buggery, sleeping in poor-house, he earns bread by painting postcards that an enterprising Jew and his first real friend sells to tourists
Hearing complaints of fellow unemployed and listening to raw Marxist chatter, Hitler came to realize Socialism a wave of future. At center of decaying empire that aspires to mantle of Holy Roman Empire and in shadow of Bismarckian Prussian Nationalism and pan Germanism that is about to plunge Europe into World War he senses the power of united German-speakers, to unify Europe today and the world tomorrow; but, as 2nd decade of 20th century moves on, Adolf now in his mid 20's feels stranded on strange shore far from access to power. His hope is war and defeat and chaos, and in 1912 who could tell what would come. It is crisis point and stimulated by threat of conscription into Austrian Army he secretly leaves for England where his stepbrother Alois Jr. is merchant in Bristol .
Not even Adolf Hitler’s most intimate political colleagues know of his year of British life, or of the infant daughter he left behind with an Irish barmaid whose embrace he enjoyed and the Irish accent he acquired learning English from her. His year in England allowed him to study the European scene from afar and it put finishing touch on his education, for he had time to read widely – all of Marx’s Das Kapital and English works of wisdom among which those of Darwin, Spencer, GB Shaw and HG Wells stood out most vividly.
Not even Adolf Hitler’s most intimate political colleagues know of his year of British life, or of the infant daughter he left behind with an Irish barmaid whose embrace he enjoyed and the Irish accent he acquired learning English from her. His year in England allowed him to study the European scene from afar and it put finishing touch on his education, for he had time to read widely – all of Marx’s Das Kapital and English works of wisdom among which those of Darwin, Spencer, GB Shaw and HG Wells stood out most vividly.
He leaves England with war imminent, and August 1914 finds him in Munich listening to the announcement that war is on. Joining the German Army he becomes war hero, important prerequisite for his power plan because the unintelligent masses think war hero makes good leader.
Russian Revolution and Germany ’s defeat cause him to brush the dust off his Marxism and cut the long ends off his Kaiser mustache. The events come as no surprise to Adolf. The toiling masses of Europe are finished with King and Kapitalist; a New Order is at hand, to be directed by rational scientific type of man who would set the world right. He, Adolf Hitler, is the one!
It begins one evening in 1919 in a meeting room in Bavaria where Hitler, then secret agent for the Army, is investigating radicalism by attending a gathering of one of the many small leftist groups sprung up among Bavarian workers after the defeat. Named “German Workers Party” it attracts unemployables from the Munich gutter plus a sprinkling of revolutionary adventurers gambling on the GWP’s becoming their ticket to ride. The leader, a forgettable man named Wexler finishes the opening speech. Suddenly Hitler leaps up electrifying the audience with a violent critique of Wexler’s policy ending with “No social justice for the worker until we have torn the bloodsucking Jew from our necks!” The room erupts into chair-flinging, fist-throwing melee and when it ends Wexler orders his minions to find who the speaker is. “One who can start a riot with his words is one we want.”
Digression: But several reliable, well-informed sources told me that Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda as a bait to catch masses of followers and keep them aroused, enthusiastic, and in line for the time when his organization is perfected and sufficiently powerful to be employed effectively for political purposes.
A sophisticated German politician has told me that Hitler was a virtual political genius for laying emphasis and over-emphasis on anti-Semitism, saying: "You can't expect the masses to understand or appreciate his real aims. He had to feed the masses with cruder morsels and ideas like anti-Semitism. It would be politically all wrong to tell them the truth about where he really was leading them."
Digression: But several reliable, well-informed sources told me that Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda as a bait to catch masses of followers and keep them aroused, enthusiastic, and in line for the time when his organization is perfected and sufficiently powerful to be employed effectively for political purposes.
A sophisticated German politician has told me that Hitler was a virtual political genius for laying emphasis and over-emphasis on anti-Semitism, saying: "You can't expect the masses to understand or appreciate his real aims. He had to feed the masses with cruder morsels and ideas like anti-Semitism. It would be politically all wrong to tell them the truth about where he really was leading them."
As Adolf tells it now leaning across table unsmiling: “Like Caesar but with the difference I came, I spoke, I conquered.”
In a year he is leading the party, now National Socialist German Workers Party. “I chose the name myself,” says Adolf: “Nationalism! Socialism! Germanism! Workers! Something for every idiot,” he laughs.
Hitler’s use of anti-Semitism is pure theater to energize his audience to do as he commands. His particular genius is recognizing anti-Semitism would be his ticket to power. “The German masses, insufferably stupid, have inferiority complex. Asses suffering their asininity,” Adolf again laughs. “They need somebody to feel superior to. It is to suit this need that the Jew has been created. In Germany , the Jew is actually that archetype.”
Adolf here appears to have studied Jung whom the Nazis admire because he, an Aryan German Swiss, opposed the Jew Freud.
“Bearded, hook nose, Eastern European who stole your girl because he had more money than you, bilked you out of money in shady business deal, beat you out for cushy high-pay job. Jew is flamboyant fellow who stayed home during war and – while you risked your life for country living like dog in trench, Jew was laying your girl, making twice your salary and living life of Kaiser in Berlin .”
“Of course,” Adolf says fixing me with his dark hypnotic eyes, “I knew it was all nonsense even when haranguing the boobery but I saw this to be what they needed to hear; this would be the source of the Party’s power and without it we would be just another fringe group.”
Here he digresses onto the subject of the big Jewish weakness he spotted early on. “They make themselves sitting ducks ripe for becoming duck soup and targets for extermination by their thoughtless parading of superiority before the non-chosen goyim. The crass element among the Jews knows the trick of making money and compared to them a goy is a tiny tot making mud pie in sandbox. Jew capitalist is clever at making it but stupid to spend and show it. Wife wears expensive fur and children go to elite private school. German Aryan not blessed by cleverness envies Jew desperately.”
Adolf looks across table at me,
"This is what we cunning fellows used to get into power – we use it as potential energy easily manipulated into useful hate.”
Adolf looks across table at me,
"This is what we cunning fellows used to get into power – we use it as potential energy easily manipulated into useful hate.”
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