Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939 (173 page)

130 
Speer,
Spandauer Tagebücher
, p. 278 (entry for 14 March 1952); see Below,
Als Hitlers Adjutant
, p. 34.

131 
Krebs,
Tendenzen und Gestalten
, p. 127; see Wagener,
Hitler aus nächster Nähe
, p. 170; Schwerin von Krosigk, essay on Hitler’s personality; IfZ München, ZS 145, vol. 5.

132 
See Hanfstaengl,
Zwischen Weissem und Braunem Haus
, pp. 63, 68.

133 
Wagener,
Hitler aus nächster Nähe
, pp. 75, 252.

134 
Speer, corrected manuscript of
Erinnerungen
(second version), chapter 1; BA Koblenz, N 1340/384.

135 
Goebbels,
Tagebücher
, part 1, vol. 1/3, p. 208 (entry for 20 March 1929).

136 
Schroeder,
Er war mein Chef
, p. 75. See Hanfstaengl,
Zwischen Weissem und Braunem Haus
, p. 134: “Wild horses could not get it out of Hitler if he did not want to say something.”

137 
Wagener,
Hitler aus nächster Nähe
, p. 168.

138 
Ibid., p. 82.

139 
Krebs,
Tendenzen und Gestalten
, p. 135. See Speer,
Erinnerungen
, p. 111: “In general, self-control was one of Hitler’s most notable qualities.”

140 
Schirach,
Ich glaubte an Hitler
, p. 49.

141 
Schwerin von Krosigk to Fred L. Casmir, 11 Aug. 1960; BA Koblenz, N 1276/40. See also Hess,
Briefe
, p. 396 (dated 18 Dec. 1928) who writes of “this hot head who could also be so cool, sober and calculating.”

142 
Speer,
Spandauer Tagebücher
, p. 133 (entry for 20 Dec. 1947).

143 
Speer,
Erinnerungen
, p. 114. On Hitler’s “threatening stare” see also Koch-Hillebrecht,
Homo Hitler
, pp. 324f.

144 
Schwerin von Krosigk, essay on Hitler’s personality; IfZ München, ZS 145, vol. 5. On Hitler’s suggestive effect on Blomberg see Schäfer,
Werner von Blomberg
, pp. 115f.

145 
Speer, corrected manuscript of
Erinnerungen
(second version), chapter 1; BA Koblenz, N 1340/384.

146 
Hess,
Briefe
, p. 425 (dated 31 Jan. 1933).

147 
Hanfstaengl,
Zwischen Weissem und Braunem Haus
, pp. 102, 223. See Hanfstaengl’s unpublished memoirs, p. 181: “Hitler never overcame his coffeehouse habits or his congenital inability to keep to an orderly daily working rhythm…He showed up announced or unannounced and kept others waiting for hours.” BSB München, Nl Hanfstaengl Ana 405, Box 47.

148 
Schirach,
Ich glaubte an Hitler
, pp. 53f.; see Frank,
Im Angesicht des Galgens
, pp. 93f., on Hitler’s inability to work systematically; interview with Hermann Esser dated 13 March 1964, vol. 2: “Hitler never really sat down at his desk in either the Brown House in Munich or the Reich Chancellory.” BayHStA München, Nl Esser.

149 
Wagener,
Hitler aus nächster Nähe
, p. 266. See Hanfstaengl’s note about the “ink-shy Hitler”: “If he wrote down anything, it was noted on long loose sheets of paper—in pencil and in the form of bullet points.” BSB München, Nl Hanfstaengl Ana 405, Box 25.

150 
Goebbels,
Tagebücher
, part 1, vol. 2/2, p. 247 (entry for 23 March 1932). See also ibid., p. 245 (entry for 19 March 1932): “Hitler constantly has new ideas. But it’s impossible to work with him and be scrupulous about details.”

151 
Wiedemann’s memorandum “Preparation for speeches”; BA Koblenz, N 1720/4.

152 
Schroeder,
Er war mein Chef
, pp. 78–81. See Johanna Wolf’s statement dated 1 July 1947; Kempner,
Das Dritte Reich im Kreuzverhör
, p. 55; Krause,
10 Jahre Kammerdiener
, pp. 42f.; Linge,
Bis zum Untergang
, pp. 111f.

153 
See Wiedemann, shorthand notes, 25 Feb. 1939; BA Koblenz, N 1720; Friedrich Hossbach (
Zwischen Wehrmacht und Hitler 1934–1938
, 2nd revised edition, Göttingen, 1965, p. 20) described Hitler’s life as vacillating “between a maximum need for activity and capability and an idleness that verged on apathy.”

154 
Goebbels,
Tagebücher
, part 1, vol. 2/1, p. 186 (entry for 29 June 1930). See also ibid., vol. 2/2, p. 224 (entry for 22 Feb. 1932).

155 
See Speer,
Spandauer Tagebücher
, p. 354 (entry for 8 Dec. 1953); Schirach,
Ich glaubte an Hitler
, p. 235.

156 
Dietrich,
12 Jahre mit Hitler
, p. 28.

157 
Schlie,
Albert Speer
, p. 40. See Speer, corrected manuscript of
Erinnerungen
(second version), chapter 1: “Those around him spoke reverently of an antenna that allowed him to sense particular conditions and relationships.” BA Koblenz, N 1340/384.

158 
Goebbels,
Tagebücher
, part 1, vol. 2/2, p. 210 (entry for 3 Feb. 1932). See ibid., vol. 2/3, p. 160 (entry for 1 April 1933): “Hitler has the finest instincts I’ve ever experienced.”

159 
Wagener,
Hitler aus nächster Nähe
, p. 251.

160 
Goebbels,
Tagebücher
, part 1, vol. 2/3, p. 76 (entry for 7 Dec. 1932). See ibid., vol. 3/2, p. 257 (entry for 19 Nov. 1936): “He has a soft spot for artists because he’s an artist himself.”

161 
Schlie,
Albert Speer
, p. 55. See Ribbentrop,
Zwischen London und Moskau
, p. 46.

162 
Hess,
Briefe
, p. 327 (dated 18 May 1924). In June 1924 Hitler asked his landlady Frau Reichert in a handwritten note, which Hess included with the letter he sent to his fiancée, to hand over to “Fräulein Pröhl” his “history of architecture in four volumes,” recognisable by its blue boards. BA Bern, Nl Hess, J1.211-1989/148, 33

163 
Ibid., pp. 395f. (dated 18 Dec. 1928). See also ibid., p. 369 (dated 7 Feb. 1925).

164 
Schlie,
Albert Speer
, p. 166. See also below, pp. 597ff.

165 
Hitler to Countess de Castellance, Ségur, 19 April 1934; BA Berlin-Lichterfelde, NS 10/123.

166 
See transcript of an interview with Anni Winter (undated); IfZ München, ZS 194.

167 
See the receipts in BA Berlin-Lichterfelde, NS 26/2557; NS 10/120. See Wiedemann’s memorandum “Architektur,” in which he said that Hitler got “the greatest pleasure” from visitors bringing him books about the architectural works of the world’s great cities. BA Koblenz, N 1720/4.

168 
Hitlers Tischgespräche im Führerhauptquartier
, ed. Henry Picker, Stuttgart, 1976, p. 146 (dated 27 March 1942). See also Gerhard Engel,
Heeresadjutant bei Hitler 1938–1943
, ed. and annotated Hildegard von Kotze, Stuttgart, 1974, pp. 34 (dated 20 Aug. 1938), 48 (dated 8 April 1939).

169 
Adolf Hitler,
Monologe im Führerhauptquartier 1941–1944: Die Aufzeichnungen Heinrich Heims
, ed. Werner Jochmann, Hamburg, 1980, p. 400 (dated 13 June 1943); see Schlie,
Speer
, p. 57.

170 
See Birgit Schwarz,
Geniewahn: Hitler und die Kunst
, Vienna, Cologne and Weimar, 2009, pp. 103–5.

171 
See ibid., pp. 105ff.

172 
Goebbels,
Tagebücher
, part 1, vol. 3/1, p. 233 (entry for 19 May 1935); see Engel,
Heeresadjutant bei Hitler
, p. 33 (dated 28 Aug. 1938).

173 
Goebbels,
Tagebücher
, vol. 4, p. 235 (entry for 27 July 1937). Albert Speer confirmed that Hitler considered Wagner “the greatest artist Germany ever produced.” A. Speer to Joachim Fest, 13 Sept. 1969; BA Koblenz, N 1340/17.

174 
Hans Severus Ziegler,
Adolf Hitler aus dem Erleben dargestellt
, Göttingen, 1964, p. 171. See Hamann,
Winifred Wagner
, pp. 231ff.; Bernd Buchner,
Wagners Welttheater: Die Geschichte der Bayreuther Festspiele zwischen Kunst und Politik
, Darmstadt, 2013.

175 
See Rieger,
Friedelind Wagner
, p. 89.

176 
See Goebbels,
Tagebücher
, part 1, vol. 3/1, pp. 357 (entry for 1 Jan. 1936), 386 (entry for 27 Feb. 1936); vol. 5, p. 96 (entry for 14 Jan. 1938). See also Wiedemann’s memorandum “Musik”; BA Koblenz, N 1720/4; Speer,
Erinnerungen
, pp. 144f.

177 
Hanfstaengl,
Zwischen Weissem und Braunem Haus
, pp. 103f.; see Hanfstaengl’s unpublished memoirs, p. 79: “What a classic example of discipline it is when a father is prepared to condemn his son to death. Great deeds demand hard measures.” BSB München, Nl Hanfstaengl Ana 405, Box 47. On the film
Fridericus Rex
see Siegfried Kracauer,
Von Caligari zu Hitler: Eine Geschichte des deutschen Films
, vol. 2, ed. Karsten Witte, Frankfurt am Main, 1979, pp. 124–6.

178 
Hess,
Briefe
, p. 371 (dated 24 Oct. 1926).

179 
Goebbels,
Tagebücher
, part 1, vol. 2/2, p. 210 (entry for 3 Feb. 1932). On
Girls in Uniform
see Kracauer,
Von Caligari bis Hitler
, pp. 237–40.

180 
Goebbels,
Tagebücher
, part 1, vol. 2/2, p. 211 (entry for 4 Feb. 1932).

181 
See above p. 359.

182 
Hitler,
Monologe
, p. 192 (dated 9/10 Jan. 1942). See also Werner Koeppen’s reports, p. 51 (dated 3 Oct. 1941): “The Führer regards the automobile as the most wonderful of humanity’s inventions as long as it’s truly used for fun.” Hitler was a member of the General German Automobile Club. See the membership cards for 1926/27 to 1930/31 in BayHStA München, Nl Adolf Hitler. Receipts for garages, petrol, car accessories and other things for 1931/32 in BA Berlin-Lichterfelde, NS 26/2557.

183 
Schirach,
Ich glaubte an Hitler
, p. 61; see Olaf Rose (ed.),
Julius Schaub: In Hitlers Schatten
, Stegen, 2005, p. 69.

184 
Hess,
Briefe
, p. 339 (dated 16 June 1924). On Hitler’s admiration for the production capacity of the American automobile industry see Rainer Zitelmann,
Hitler: Selbstverständnis eines Revolutionärs
, 2nd revised and expanded edition, Stuttgart, 1989, pp. 352f., 356f.

185 
See Eberhard Reuss,
Hitlers Rennschlachten: Die Silberpfeile unterm Hakenkreuz
, Berlin, 2006, pp. 45f.

186 
See the facsimile of Hitler’s letter to director Wilhelm Kissel dated 13 May 1932; Rose,
Julius Schaub
, pp. 70–2.

187 
Quoted in Reuss,
Hitlers Rennschlachten
, p. 51.

188 
Daimler-Benz AG to the Reich chancellor’s office, 14 June 1933; BA Berlin-Lichterfelde, NS 10/119. See the Daimler-Benz book,
Ein Rüstungskonzern im “Tausendjährigen Reich,
” ed. Hamburger Stiftung für Sozialgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, Nördlingen, 1987, pp. 123ff.

189 
See Julius Schreck, “Mit dem Führer auf Reisen”: Beitrag für das Reemtsma-Album “Adolf Hitler” (1936); BA Berlin-Lichterfelde, NS 10/121; Rose,
Julius Schaub
, p. 69.

190 
Rudolf Hess to his parents, 7 July 1925; BA Bern, Nl Hess, J1.211-1989/148, 35. Dietrich,
12 Jahre mit Hitler
, p. 190. See Rudolf Hess to his parents, 21 Sept. 1935: before 1933, Hitler could not bear it “if there was another car in front of him for a considerable amount of time or if he was overtaken by another car.” BA Bern, Nl Hess, J1.211-1989/148, 55.

191 
Goebbels,
Tagebücher
, part 1, vol. 1/3, p. 175 (entry for 28 Jan. 1929).

192 
Ibid., vol. 2/3, p. 236 (entry for 28 July 1933). See Dietrich,
12 Jahre mit Hitler
, pp. 161, 208.

193 
Hanfstaengl,
Zwischen Weissem und Braunem Haus
, p. 80; see Hanfstaengl’s unpublished memoirs, p. 60; BSB München, Nl Hanfstaengl Ana 405, Box 47.

194 
Wagener,
Hitler aus nächster Nähe
, p. 100.

195 
Meissner,
Staatssekretär
, p. 616. See Speer,
Spandauer Tagebücher
, p. 158 (entry for 5 May 1948): “Right up until the end there was something ascetic in Hitler’s private life”; Frank,
Im Angesicht des Galgens
, p. 95: “Wherever he went, he lived as simply as imaginable…His asceticism was genuine and not put on.”

196 
Speer,
Spandauer Tagebücher
, p. 140 (entry for 15 Feb. 1947).

197 
Schirach,
Ich glaubte an Hitler
, p. 128.

198 
Speer,
Erinnerungen
, p. 123.

199 
See the receipts for 1933/34 in BA Berlin-Lichterfelde, NS 10/115 und NS 10/119.