Office of Strategic Services ...The dark secret, which remains carefully veiled
and hidden in his autobiography, is the wretched
existence of a man early stranded among the real
dregs of society. The picture of years spent in the
Asylum for the Poor and Homeless, fed as a beggar
with charity-soups in the monastery courts--the
picture of life among the derelicts in a city of millions
cannot be passed on to his contemporaries.
(Hitler-Billinger-p. 25)
...He hates the politicians, the ignoramuses who get
good pay for their nonsense. He hates the Hapsburgs
who try to gain favour among their Slavic subjects
and suppress the German elements. He hates workers
and their unions. He hates his environment. He hates.
Not a single word expressing pleasure in living is to
be found in his writing. Not a single suggestion that
he had a friend or ever loved a girl. Dressed in a shabby
black frock coat which reaches to his knees, his
hollow cheeks framed with a beard, his hair in the
Bohemian fashion of that time--hanging down his
neck, the artist starves through life absolutely alone.
(Hitler-Billinger-p. 26)
"Today it is difficult, if not impossible, for me
to tell just when the word _Jew_ first gave me
occasion for special thought," he writes, preparatory
to his telling how he became an anti-Semite. His
father was not anti-Semitic, and even in school he
had not been imbued with hatred for the Jews. He
says he recalls that in school there was a Jewish
boy of whom he was very wary. But this he ascribes
solely to the fact that the Jewish pupil was a
chatterbox. In Linz the difference between Jews
and Gentiles had not yet become apparent to him,
because the few Jews who lived there had
"occidentalized their external appearance in the
course of the centuries." Their features were
too "human" for him to differentiate.
(Hitler-Billinger-p. 26)
...Georg von Schoenerer's Pan-German Party and
the even more influential Christian-Social Party
of the Viennese Burgomaster Karl Lueger were both
anti-Semitic. Schoenerer and Lueger -- especially
Lueger -- were Hitler's prototypes of popular
leaders. To them he dedicates dozens of pages
in _Mein Kampf_ in admiring acknowledgment.
(Hitler-Billinger-p. 27)
His own '"study" of another side of cosmopolitan
life revealed to him the Jewish danger in full--he
discovered that in Vienna the Jews had a monopoly
of sin. Here for the first time in his book we come
upon expressions which throw some light upon
Hitler's sex life. It may be interesting for the
psychiatrist that Mein Kampf speaks of sexual
matters almost exclusively in connection with
anti-Semitism.
(Hitler-Billinger-p. 27)
What hypocrisy from the mouth of a man in whose
proximity and with whose knowledge countless boys
were being prostituted by Nazi officers! And quite
aside from the infamous lie that more Jews than
others were professional prostitutes in Vienna,
did not the German troops at the Western Front,
with whom Hitler served, know the German Amy
brothels in the occupied territories of Belgium
and France? Even Hitler could not very well unmask
the responsible German officials as Jews.
(Hitler-Billinger-p. 28)
His alleged observations seem to have impressed
him deeply. The rape scene, especially, has caught
his fancy. "The dark-haired Jewboy lurks in
ambush for hours, satanic joy upon his face, for
the unsuspecting girl, whom he poisons with his
blood, thus stealing her from her people." Then
again he tells of the "rape of hundreds
of thousands of girls by bow-legged repulsive
Jew-bastards." And another time: "These dark
parasites on our people deliberately
rape our inexperienced young blonde girls
and thus destroy something
which cannot be replaced in this world."
(Hitler-Billinger-p- 28)
...because those who really know will not or can
no longer tell. It cannot be said with certainty
either that he is homosexual or that he is
impotent, although he undoubtedly is suffering
from sexual repressions.
(Hitler-Billinger-p. 29)
There has been much speculation as to the
reason for Hitler's devoting so much attention
in his book to syphilis. He accuses old Germany
of not having made the struggle against this
disease the central task, "_the_ task of the nation."
(Hitler-Billinger-p. 30)
Page upon page he dedicates to the past
failings and future duties of the State to
exterminate this plague. That in its spread
he sees the hand of the Jew who is out to
ruin the German race, was to be expected. But
in his presentation there is also to be heard
an unusually mild and understanding note of
compassion for the endangered end the sick.
Even a boy of fourteen must be shielded from
his sensual lust. "He has no right to waste
these years in uselessly loafing about."
0therwise, Hitler says, one should not be
surprised "that at this age syphilis already
begins to look for its victims."
His words are full of pathos when he speaks
of the sick and their duties to the race. The
State must see to it that only the healthy
beget children. _"He who is not healthy and
worthy physically and mentally, may not
perpetuate his sorrow in the body of his
child."_ The State must further "by means
of education teach the individual that it is
no disgrace to be ill and weak, only a regrettable
misfortune, but that it is a crime and a disgrace
to make this misfortune dishonourable through
one's own egoism, by passing it on to innocent
human beings." There is only one disgrace: to
beget children in spite of one's own illness.
But it is a high honour if the "innocently sick one"
renounces parenthood. _"Conversely, it must be
considered reprehensible to withhold healthy
children from the nation."_
Is the childless Hitler then to be honoured for
renunciation or is he behaving reprehensibly
against the vital interests of the Aryan Race
and the National State?
(Hitler-Billinger-p. 30-31)
...Actually he did not go to Germany until 1913,
as is apparent from police registration.
(Hitler-Billinger-p. 31)
Even as a boy of ten he had been enthusiastic
about "everything which had any connection
with war or with soldiers." A book about the
Franco-Prussian War of 1870 had been "the
most profound inner experience" to him. The Boer
War had appeared like "Sheet lightning".
(Hitler-Billinger-p. 32)
The long period of peace which had seemed ahead
was to him an "undeserved meanness of fate."
"Why could one not have been born a hundred years
earlier, say, at the time of the Wars of Liberation,
when a men did not have to possess a business
to be appreciated!" The World War therefore
came as a fulfillment of the dreams of his youth--
and as an escape from the misery of his humdrum
existence. With the following words he describes
his feelings in those tragic
(Hitler-Billinger-p. 32)
(Hitler-Billinger-p. 32 cont. )
days when the breath of the entire civilized
world was held back with horror:
To me those hours came like a salvation from
the bitter feelings of my youth. Even today I am
not ashamed to say that I, overcome with a
storm of enthusiasm, sank upon my knees and
thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for
having let me live in this age.
(Hitler-Billinger-p. 32)
He enlisted as a private in the Bavarian Army and
participated in the entire campaign on the Western
Front. The loneliness of his civil life followed him
into the Army, too. He never wrote or received a
letter by field-post; he received no packages from
home. His comrades considered him queer. He would
sit brooding for hours in some corner away from
them, staring into space, and then suddenly
condemn with wild accusations Germany's invisible
enemies who were working for its downfall. Of
course he meant the Jews and Marxists. As far
as discipline and obedience to his officers were
concerned, he was a model soldier.
(Hitler-Billinger-p. 32-33)
A hot argument has started over the Iron Cross,
first class, which Hitler later pinned to his SA
uniform. When and for what could he have
received it? The information is contradictory.
Olden relates no less than seven different
versions, all having issued from Nazi sources.
One is that he captured twelve Frenchmen in a
dug-out; another that he surprised a French officer
and twenty men in a cellar and disarmed them;
yet another relates that it was an English tank
that he tricked into a grenade-crater, where the
crew drowned. The time, too, of the heroic deed
ranges in the various versions from the Autumn of
1915 to October, 1918; the date of the award is
once given as August 4, 1918 and another time
as October 4. According to the _Angriff_, Goebbels'
organ, the award was given some time between
October, 1916, and October, 1918. It has never
been proved officially. The history of his regiment,
to be sure, informs us that Hitler belonged to it,
but there is no mention of his bravery.
(Hitler-Billinger-p. 33)
Hitler lived in Munich during the Soviet
Republic. What he did at that time he nowhere
tells. He only mentions in one place that the
Central Committee of the revolutionary Government
wanted to have him jailed because he had earned
"its disapproval." Eye-witnesses of that time
have reported that Hitler spoke at mass-meetings
in favour of Social Democrats as opposed to the radicals.
"A few days after the freeing of Munich, I was
appointed to the commission investigating
revolutionary activities in the Second Infantry
Regiment. This was my first more or less purely
political activity."
Behind this apparently innocent sentence is
hidden his cooperation in some of the most
dastardly deeds of those bloody days. In a
little biography, which a Hitlerite wrote in
1923 with the consent of the Fuehrer, is the
following: "Ordered to testify before the
investigating commission, his accusatory
documents bring ruthless clarity into the
shamelessness of the military betrayals of
the Jew-dictatorship during the Soviet period
in Munich." This can all be said more simply.
Hitler betrayed his comrades to the counter-
revolutionary execution squad. Informer and hangman of the
soldiers with whom he had lived--these were
his first political offices. In his biography of
Hitler, Heiden has a detailed eye-witness account
of the work of the "investigating commission."
In the barracks where Hitler was living with a
number of "Red soldiers," apparently in complete
harmony, the "Whites" one day appeared. Every
tenth man of the "Reds" was stood against the
wall and shot. Hitler had been separated from
the rest before the executions began. The "Whites"
were taking good care of their informer.
(Hitler-Billinger-p. 34-35)
A more malicious trick of Fate could not be
imagined. Hitler, who was to build up the most
powerful political party Germany had ever known,
found his way to it while he was carrying out
his duties as a spy; and he became a member of it
against his will.
(Hitler-Billinger-p. 37
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Hitler Is No Fool
by Karl Billinger
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