Goebbels: A Biography (105 page)

108.
WLZ
, 13 October 1922. See also
WLZ
, 30 September 1922, “Schauspielhaus Rheydt, Flachsmann als Erzieher” (concerning a play about a school that was
published in 1900). BAK, NL 1118/113, newspaper’s dismissal note, 16 October 1922.

109.
BAK, NL 1118/133, Lecture: “Ausschnitte aus der deutschen Literatur der Gegenwart,” 30 October 1922.

110.
WLZ
, 24 November 1922, “Der Bühnenvolksbund in Rheydt.”

111.
“Erinnerungsblätter,” 23f.

112.
“Erinnerungsblätter,” 25.

113.
BAK, NL 1118/126, 17 February 1919 to Anka.

114.
Thus in his 1924 memoirs referring to a short stay in Frankfurt am Main he used the phrase “Jewish city.”

115.
On anti-Semitism after the First World War, see Walter,
Antisemitische Kriminalität und Gewalt;
Hecht,
Deutsche Juden und Antisemitismus in der Weimarer Republik
.

116.
BAK, NL 1118/110, 22 December 1922, E.J. to J.G.; StA MG, NL Goebbels/45, E.J. to J.G., 24 December 1922.

117.
BAK, NL 1118/110, E.J. to J.G., 11 February 1923 and 31 January 1923; her letter of 23 April 1923 (ibid.) reflects his depression.

118.
“Erinnerungsblätter,” 25f.

119.
“Erinnerungsblätter,” 25.

120.
“Erinnerungsblätter,” 27.

121.
See Thacker,
Goebbels
, 312f.

122.
“Erinnerungsblätter,” 25.

123.
Kölner Tageblatt
, 24 June 1923. See also “Erinnerungsblätter,” 27. There he refers to a second article in the
Kölner Tageblatt
, which could not, however, be found. The fiasco article was published again in an amended version in the
Völkische Freiheit
of 4 November 1924.

124.
NL 1118/126; Reuth,
Goebbels
, 62f.

125.
NL Goebbels/45, no. 45.

126.
“Erinnerungsblätter,” 26.

127.
“Erinnerungsblätter,” 27f.

128.
Rheydter Zeitung
, 22 December 1923, “Schöpferische Kräfte. Richard Flisges, dem toten Freunde.”

129.
BAK, NL 1118/110, E.J., 22 September 1923 on his search for work; H.G. to J.G., 18 September 1923.

130.
StA MG, NL Goebbels/45, E.J. to J.G., 23 September 1923. Here there is also a copy of a letter from Goebbels in which he told Else that he was not going to return to the bank (22 September 1923). BAK, NL 1118/113 contains concerned letters from his father of 23 and 27 September 1923.

131.
“Erinnerungsblätter,” 28.

1.
TB, 25 January 1924.

2.
Reimer,
Rheinlandfrage und Rheinlandbewegung (1918–1933)
, 296ff.; Schlemmer,
“Los von Berlin,”
161ff.

3.
Löhr, “Mönchengladbach im 19./20. Jahrhundert,” 174.

4.
Waldecker, “Rheydt 1815–1974,” 289ff.

5.
TB, 23 October 1923.

6.
TB, 24 October 1923.

7.
TB, 22 October 1923.

8.
StA MG, NL Goebbels/45, no. 59a, 4 November 1923.

9.
TB, 18 and 27 October, 4, 5, and 7 November 1923. On the separation, see TB, 9 November; the entries of 14 and 20 November and 5 December 1923 point to the reconciliation that followed.

10.
TB, 27 October 1923.

11.
TB, 31 December; 27 December (Dream).

12.
TB, 21 January 1924.

13.
TB, 27 October 1923.

14.
TB, 5 and 31 December 1923, 5 January 1924.

15.
TB, 2 November 1923; the project was already mentioned in 17 October 1923. On the summer of 1920 (my “Prometheus problem”), see also “Erinnerungsblätter,” 18; on the beginning of 1923 (“the problem of Prometheus”), see “Erinnerungsblätter,” 25.

16.
TB, 4, 5, 7, 8, and 10 November 1923.

17.
TB, 12 November 1923.

18.
TB, 18 November 1923.

19.
Czapla, “Die Entfesselung des Prometheus.”

20.
TB, 10 November 1923.

21.
TB, 7 November 1923.

22.
TB, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 23, 27, and 28 November 1923. The idea emerges for the first time on 5 November.

23.
TB, 5 November 1923.

24.
TB, 5 December 1923.

25.
TB, 12 December 1923; see also 5 December 1923.

26.
TB, 9, 10, and 18 January 1924, 10 March 1924.

27.
TB, 13 December 1923.

28.
TB, 27 December 1923.

29.
TB, 18 January 1924: “Artists can be compared with God. God is greater because he created new things from nothing. Artists make new things from material that already exists.”

30.
TB, 6 February 1924. See also the same formulation in the “Michael” manuscript (1 June).

31.
For more on this, see Bärsch,
Goebbels
, 248ff.

32.
See Czapla, “Entfesselung,” which quotes the poem “God”: “God is in me / and I in him.” NL 1118/126, “Aus meinem Tagebuch.”

33.
TB, 14 January 1924.

34.
TB, 18 January 1924.

35.
TB, 10 and 23 November, 17 December 1923, 25 and 31 January, 16 February, 29 March 1924; on these musical experiences, see Thacker,
Goebbels
, 31, 37, 51, 60.

36.
TB, 14 February 1924; see also TB, 18 January 1924
(The Idiot)
, TB, 13 and 20 February 1924
(The Devils)
and 27 June 1924; 15 and 17 July 1924
(Netochka Nezvanova)
, 22 September 1924
(Humiliated and Insulted)
and 21 and 26 February 1925
(The Brothers Karamazov)
.

37.
TB, 30 January, 7 and 9 February 1924; by contrast he found
What Is to Be Done?
too West European (9 January 1925).

38.
TB, 27 November, 5 December 1923.

39.
TB, 20 and 19 December 1923.

40.
TB, 15, 22, and 24 March 1924.

41.
On the novel
Black Banners
, see TB, 1 November 1923. His
Getting Married
put him off (14 January 1924); on the novel
Inferno
, see also 25 February, 11 March 1924; on a performance of
Dance of Death
, see 7 April 1925.

42.
TB, 5 November, und 5 December 1923.

43.
TB, 23 October 1923.

44.
TB, 23 July 1924.

45.
TB, 25 May 1924.

46.
TB, 10 and 14 November 1924.

47.
TB, 29 August 1924 (about a visit to the Richartz-Museum in Cologne); 25 June 1925 (Düsseldorf Art Exhibition).

48.
TB, 29 December 1923.

49.
TB, 1 February 1924.

50.
TB, 10 and 13 February 1924.

51.
TB, 27 February–7 March 1924.

52.
He had already determined to establish “the nicest possible monument” to his friend. TB, 11 December 1923.

53.
Michael Voormann, Ein Menschenschicksal, BAK, NL 1118/127. See Hunt,
Joseph Goebbels;
Michel,
Vom Poeten
, 69ff.

54.
BAK, NL 1118/127, entry of 15 September 1919. See also the phrases “His life, a sacrifice for humanity” (15 November 1919) and “He sacrificed himself for the idea of humanity!” (29 April 1920).

55.
TB, 15 March 1924.

56.
TB, 17 March 1924.

57.
TB, 20 March 1924.

58.
TB, 22 March 1924.

59.
TB, 4 April 1924. On 10 June 1923 he had already written in “Michael” about the “fatherland”: “I rooted myself in your soil; you are the mother of my thoughts and dreams.” On 27 September he wrote of the “liberation of the maternal soil of Germany.”

60.
TB, 3 April 1924.

61.
TB, 24 and 26 March 1924.

62.
TB, 26 March 1924.

63.
TB, 29 March 1924.

64.
TB, 31 March 1924.

65.
TB, 3 April 1924; also 5, 16 (“No bastards as children”), and 21 April 1924, about his ambivalent attitude toward her.

66.
BAK, NL 1118/113, letter to Rudolf Mosse, 22 February 1924.

67.
TB, 26 March, 3 April 1924.

68.
TB, 22 and 23 September 1924, mentions applications for editorial positions.

69.
TB, 29 March 1924.

70.
TB, 31 March 1924.

71.
TB, 5 April 1924. A report of a Nazi functionary, Kreisamtsleiter, W. v. Ameln, provides information about its founding: “Die Stadt Rheydt und die Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei,” in
Einwohnerbuch Rheydt 1936
, 11f. See also Thacker,
Goebbels
, 35.

72.
TB, 5 April 1924.

73.
TB, 8 April 1924. On the origins of Goebbels’s anti-Semitism, see in particular Barth,
Goebbels und die Juden
, 36ff. However, Barth was not yet able to use the passages of the TB quoted here from spring 1924 for his study.

74.
TB, 9 April 1924.

75.
TB, 10 April 1924.

76.
TB, 10 April 1924; it is clear from the entries for 11 and 12 April that for the time being he had finished with the topic of anti-Semitism.

77.
TB, 20 June 1924.

78.
Rheydter Zeitung
, 24 April 1924, Announcement of the election candidates of the Völkisch-Sozial-Block for the local government election in Rheydt.

79.
TB, 29 April 1924, 1 May 1924.

80.
TB, 29 April 1924;
Rheydter Zeitung
, 30 April 1924.

81.
TB, 29 April 1924.

82.
TB, 3 May 1924.

83.
Rheydter Zeitung
, 5 May 1924; on the election results, see also TB, 5 and 7 May 1924.

84.
TB, 7 May 1924.

85.
TB, 28 May 1924. In a leaflet of the Schillergemeinde (“Empor zu Schiller!”) there is a reference to the Deutsche Schillergemeinde Verlags-Gemeinschaft Duisburg. See also Deutsche Schillergemeinde,
Satzungen
(both in the Staatsbibliothek in Munich). Later, however, he tried unsuccesssfully to give talks under the auspices of the Schillergemeinde: TB, 23 May, 7 June 1924; also TB, 10, 12, 14, and 16 June 1924.

86.
TB, 30 May 1924; see also 19 May 1924.

87.
TB, 12 May 1924.

88.
TB, 6 June 1924.

89.
TB, 16 and 19 May (only for the quotation about the Center Party people).

90.
TB, 6 June 1924.

91.
TB, 14, 16, and 23 June (house search) 1924.

92.
TB, 14 June 1924.

93.
TB, 30 June, 4 July 1924. See 1 May 1924: “We are looking for a Bismarck, who will be able to implement our ideas in the real world.”

94.
Sontheimer,
Antidemokratisches Denken in der Weimarer Republik
, 214ff.; Schreiner, “ ‘Wann kommt der Retter Deutschlands?’ ”

95.
TB, 25 July 1923; Bärsch,
Goebbels
, 221.

96.
TB, 26 May 1924, see also 7 June 1924.

97.
TB, 2 and 4 July 1924.

98.
TB, 4 July 1924.

99.
TB, 7 and 9 July 1924.

100.
TB, 7 July 1924.

101.
TB, 14 July 1924.

102.
TB, 30 July, 13 and 14 August 1924.

103.
TB, 28 July 1924.

104.
TB, 25 May 1924.

105.
TB, 10 June 1924.

106.
TB, 23 July 1924.

107.
TB, in particular 9 May, 18 June (dream), 9, 14, and 21 July (dream) 1924.

108.
TB, 23 July 1924.

109.
TB, 17 July 1924.

110.
TB, 30 July 1924. On his depression, see also 31 July 1924.

111.
TB, 11 August 1924.

112.
TB, 7 August 1924.

113.
TB, 13 August 1924.

114.
TB, various entries between 1 and 11 August 1924. On 11 August he writes that
the “Erinnerungen aus der Jugendzeit” are to go up to “17 October 1923, the start of my diary.”

115.
TB, 8 August 1924.

116.
TB, 1 and 2 August 1924.

117.
Repeated in TB, 1 August 1924.

118.
TB, 2 August 1924; see also 4 and 7 August 1924.

119.
TB, 11 August 1924, see also 13, 14, and 15 August 1924.

120.
TB, 1 August 1924.

121.
TB, 8 August 1924. On his relationship with his mother and the transfer of the image of his mother to his girlfriends, see Bärsch,
Goebbels
, 230ff.

122.
TB, 8 August 1924.

123.
TB, 1 August 1924.

124.
TB, 12, 13, and 15 August 1924.

125.
TB, 13 August 1924; see also 14 August 1924.

126.
TB, 11 and 13 August 1924.

127.
TB, 1, 11, and 13 August 1924.

128.
Reuth,
Goebbels
, 78ff.; Jablonsky,
The Nazi Party in Dissolution
, 118ff.

129.
TB, 13, 14, and 15 August 1924.

130.
TB, 19 August 1924.

131.
TB, 31 August 1924.

132.
Bärsch,
Goebbels
, 226.

133.
TB, 19 August 1924.

134.
TB, 20 August 1924.

135.
TB, 22 August 1924; Reuth,
Goebbels
, 81.

136.
TB, 4, 10, 17, 18, 19, 25, 27, and 28 September 1924; see also 11 August 1924: “Yesterday in Rheindahlen. Völkisch propaganda.”

137.
TB, 27 September 1924.

138.
TB, 11 July 1924.

139.
TB, 30 August 1924. During the following weeks there are almost daily entries concerning his journalism for the
Völkische Freiheit
. On this activity, see also Thacker,
Goebbels
, 42ff.

140.
TB, 4 September 1924.

141.
TB, 22 September 1924.

142.
TB, 27 September 1924.

143.
13 September 1924, “National und sozial.”

144.
4 October 1924, “Industrie und Börse.” Similarly: “An alle schaffenden Stände,” 15 November 1924: “Socialism is only possible at all within a nation state. National and social are not only not opposed to each other but are one and the same thing.”

145.
On the debate concerning the future economic system, see Kühnl,
Die nationalsozialistische Linke, 1925–1930
, esp. 57ff. The debate was also conducted in the
NS-Briefe
in particular, e.g. Rud. Jung, “Nationaler oder internationaler Sozialismus,” 15 September 1926; Rosikat, “Die Frage der Führungs- und Besitzbeteiligung” and W.W., “Werksgemeinschaft,” both 15 December 1926; Gregor Strasser, “Nationaler Sozialismus!” 15 February 1927; W. v. Corswani-Cuntzow, “Die Frage der Führungs- und Besitzbeteiligung,” 15 February 1927; “Privateigentum?” 1 March 1927; Willi Hess, “Gewinnbeteiligung,” 1 August 1927; Gregor Strasser, “Ziele und Wege,” 1 July 1927.

146.
TB, 7 April 1925.

147.
VF
, 18 October 1924, “Völkische Kulturfragen.”

148.
VF
, 25 October 1924.

149.
TB, 15 September 1924.

150.
TB. 27 September 1924.

151.
TB, 3 October 1924;
VF
, 4 October 1924, Notiz.