Dragon Rising
Corporal Adolf Hitler joined the DAP (German Workers' Party) in late September 1919. The then very small party was known for its connection to occult movements, staunch racist nationalism, and even stronger anti-Semitism. All three points were exactly what he was in tune with. After giving his first speech for the Party on October 16 in the Hofbräukeller beer hall, Hitler quickly rose up to become a leading figure in the DAP. Like other ethnicity groups, the DAP advocated the belief that Germany should become a unified "national community" rather than a society divided along class and party lines. This ideology was explicitly anti-Semitic as it declared that the "national community" must be judenfrei ("free of Jews"). He soon had the name of the party changed to “the National Socialist German Workers' Party” the more commonly known title “Nazi” coming from the pronunciation in German of the initials of the full name.
Hitler soon discovered that he had a hypnotic talent as an orator, and his ability to draw new members, combined with his characteristic ruthlessness, soon made him the dominant figure of the party. He became party chairman on 28 July 1921. Originally the leadership board had been elected by the members, which in turn elected a chairman. He quickly got rid of this system and acquired the title Führer ("leader") and, after a series of sharp internal conflicts, it was accepted that the party would be governed by Hitler as the sole leader of the party and he alone decided its policies and strategy. He at this time saw the party as a revolutionary organization, whose aim was the violent overthrow of the Weimar Republic. The SA ("storm troopers", also known as "Brownshirts") was founded as a party militia in 1921 and began violent attacks on other political parties.
For Hitler the twin goals of the party were always German nationalist expansionism and Anti-Semitism. These two goals were fused in his warped mind by his belief that Germany's external enemies, Britain, France and the Soviet Union, were controlled by the Jews. Therefore to ensure the success of Germany's future and wars of national expansion would necessarily require an annihilative war against the Jews. For him and his principal lieutenants, national and racial issues were always dominant. This was symbolized by their adoption as the party emblem of the swastika, which in German nationalist circles was considered a symbol of the "Supreme Aryan race”.
In spite of many efforts to boost it, the German economy continued to flounder. This made it easy for the radical Nazi Party, to gain support among the public. During the mid 1920s’ Germany entered a period of relative political stability and prosperity. Despite this the Nazi Party continued to grow. The party partially owed its growth to the fading away or absorption of competitor nationalist groups.
Several people got a sensation of trouble brewing from this party leader. One, Reb Solomon Dzubas, the son-in-law of the chief caretaker of the central Berlin Synagogue, told his fellow congregants and friends that “this one will make us great trouble. His words will bring death to many of our people.” He was laughed at. Those laughs were not to remain for long.
However by 1927 the economy started to go downhill again. Then came The Great Depression and its effects on Germany. By 1930 the German economy was beset with mass unemployment and widespread business failures. The Nazi party and its oratory hypnotic leader attracted hundreds of thousands of unemployed, underemployed, distraught and disappointed German citizens. Their inherent nationalism was used and manipulated to bring a fervor no other political leader could get near to achieving. This was also used to make the blaming of all of Germany’s troubles the fault of the Jews.
The party grew in power and influence and on January 30th 1933 Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor, head of the government’s cabinet.
Within two months he arranged the suspending of most of the human rights and granted the cabinet (and therefore himself) legislative powers, all of which effectively was nullification of the constitution. This gave the government the power to enact laws without parliamentary approval, to enact foreign treaties abroad and even to make changes to the Constitution. In effect the Nazi party directed by Hitler used he democratic republic system to gain dictatorial power, and cancel the very constitution that it had abused and manipulated to gain that power.
The Nazis did not keep their promises to their political allies, banning all other parties just as they had banned the communists and socialists. Following this, on 14 July 1933 the Nazi government banned the formation of new parties turning Germany into a single-party state. Hitler kept both houses of parliament as a rubber stamp. The legislative bodies of the German states soon followed in the same manner, with the German federal government taking over most state and local legislative powers.
It was under Hitler’s reign of terror that the world was to learn that the four years’ “The War to end all wars” was to be renamed as World War 1, for in fact it only served to bring about an even more horrific war, World War 2. In this six year war over seventy million people, mostly civilians, were slaughtered, making it the deadliest and cruelest war in human history. While the majority of the civilian casualties were from massive bombing of cities, towns, villages and civilian ships, six and half million Jews were to be purposely ruthlessly methodically slaughtered via a program of insane racial hatred, all empowered by Hitler’s inspiration from Rudolf Steiner’s cult and the cult’s founder’s teaching of, “… the Jews are a race whose time of usefulness to mankind has finished and it would be best if they were to disappear from the earth.”
This massive genocide was to make endless use of the very same magnificent efficient railway system that the Jewish merchants had built to empower Germany.
The ironies, the “puzzle pieces” that didn’t quite naturally fit but somehow fell in place together, the fact that people who saw the developing debacle in progress and warned others were all ignored, all show a very strong hint that some ethereal hand was behind it all.
Hitler soon discovered that he had a hypnotic talent as an orator, and his ability to draw new members, combined with his characteristic ruthlessness, soon made him the dominant figure of the party. He became party chairman on 28 July 1921. Originally the leadership board had been elected by the members, which in turn elected a chairman. He quickly got rid of this system and acquired the title Führer ("leader") and, after a series of sharp internal conflicts, it was accepted that the party would be governed by Hitler as the sole leader of the party and he alone decided its policies and strategy. He at this time saw the party as a revolutionary organization, whose aim was the violent overthrow of the Weimar Republic. The SA ("storm troopers", also known as "Brownshirts") was founded as a party militia in 1921 and began violent attacks on other political parties.
For Hitler the twin goals of the party were always German nationalist expansionism and Anti-Semitism. These two goals were fused in his warped mind by his belief that Germany's external enemies, Britain, France and the Soviet Union, were controlled by the Jews. Therefore to ensure the success of Germany's future and wars of national expansion would necessarily require an annihilative war against the Jews. For him and his principal lieutenants, national and racial issues were always dominant. This was symbolized by their adoption as the party emblem of the swastika, which in German nationalist circles was considered a symbol of the "Supreme Aryan race”.
In spite of many efforts to boost it, the German economy continued to flounder. This made it easy for the radical Nazi Party, to gain support among the public. During the mid 1920s’ Germany entered a period of relative political stability and prosperity. Despite this the Nazi Party continued to grow. The party partially owed its growth to the fading away or absorption of competitor nationalist groups.
Several people got a sensation of trouble brewing from this party leader. One, Reb Solomon Dzubas, the son-in-law of the chief caretaker of the central Berlin Synagogue, told his fellow congregants and friends that “this one will make us great trouble. His words will bring death to many of our people.” He was laughed at. Those laughs were not to remain for long.
However by 1927 the economy started to go downhill again. Then came The Great Depression and its effects on Germany. By 1930 the German economy was beset with mass unemployment and widespread business failures. The Nazi party and its oratory hypnotic leader attracted hundreds of thousands of unemployed, underemployed, distraught and disappointed German citizens. Their inherent nationalism was used and manipulated to bring a fervor no other political leader could get near to achieving. This was also used to make the blaming of all of Germany’s troubles the fault of the Jews.
The party grew in power and influence and on January 30th 1933 Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor, head of the government’s cabinet.
Within two months he arranged the suspending of most of the human rights and granted the cabinet (and therefore himself) legislative powers, all of which effectively was nullification of the constitution. This gave the government the power to enact laws without parliamentary approval, to enact foreign treaties abroad and even to make changes to the Constitution. In effect the Nazi party directed by Hitler used he democratic republic system to gain dictatorial power, and cancel the very constitution that it had abused and manipulated to gain that power.
The Nazis did not keep their promises to their political allies, banning all other parties just as they had banned the communists and socialists. Following this, on 14 July 1933 the Nazi government banned the formation of new parties turning Germany into a single-party state. Hitler kept both houses of parliament as a rubber stamp. The legislative bodies of the German states soon followed in the same manner, with the German federal government taking over most state and local legislative powers.
It was under Hitler’s reign of terror that the world was to learn that the four years’ “The War to end all wars” was to be renamed as World War 1, for in fact it only served to bring about an even more horrific war, World War 2. In this six year war over seventy million people, mostly civilians, were slaughtered, making it the deadliest and cruelest war in human history. While the majority of the civilian casualties were from massive bombing of cities, towns, villages and civilian ships, six and half million Jews were to be purposely ruthlessly methodically slaughtered via a program of insane racial hatred, all empowered by Hitler’s inspiration from Rudolf Steiner’s cult and the cult’s founder’s teaching of, “… the Jews are a race whose time of usefulness to mankind has finished and it would be best if they were to disappear from the earth.”
This massive genocide was to make endless use of the very same magnificent efficient railway system that the Jewish merchants had built to empower Germany.
The ironies, the “puzzle pieces” that didn’t quite naturally fit but somehow fell in place together, the fact that people who saw the developing debacle in progress and warned others were all ignored, all show a very strong hint that some ethereal hand was behind it all.