Hitler: A Film from Germany (1977) - full transcript
Director Hans-Jurgen Syberberg examines the rise and fall of the Third Reich in this brooding seven-hour masterpiece, which incorporates puppetry, rear-screen projection, and a Wagnerian score into a singular epic vision. Syberberg, who grew up under Nazi tyranny, ruminates on good and evil and the rest of humanity's complicity in the horrors of the holocaust.
Faith moves montains
The faith that must be
in all of us...
to work and to struggle,
for the nation for the Reich
( GoebbeIs ) 30th January 1943
A GERMAN DREAM
... until the
End of the WorId
( Albert Einstein, 24th October, 1940 )
This war will not be over until
German tyranny in Europe is overcome
lt is less certain whether,
once peace is finally achieved...
...it will bring about an organization
to safeguard against future wars...
...in Europe or all the countries
in the world
Only it that is achieved...
...will this generation's suffering
not have been in vain
For that reason, everybody should be
aware of that fact...
...that liberation without organized
security of liberty for the future...
...is only a postponement
Achievement of that aim depends on
every individual
Everyone must resist an accaetance
of the condition of slavery
Everyone should, whenever possible...
...act in such way...
...that oppressors and their
organization receive no support
Everyone should willingly
accept privation...
...if that will weaken the economy
and fighting power of the enemy
Nobody can rob the European
of independence...
...if he holds onto it
with all his strength
(The Magician )
Ladies and gentIemen!
This is the masseur of
Heinrich HimmIer...
...the Reichsf?hrer of the SS
Yes, I'm the man with the magicaI hands
HimmIer's masseur, through whom one
couId buy humanity for money
The man needed by the heroes...
when their stomachs could no Ionger
endure the bIood of their victims
A miracle-heaIer, priest and
physician...
...who saved the dutch from
deportation to PoIand...
...and HoIIand from fIooding in 1945,
as envisaged in the Nazi pIans...
...and who arranged the disbandment,
not "Iiquidation" of the camps
For how much money?
You need money to be human in such
times. Or at any time, naturaIIy
The man, who was an aIchemist and new
Copernicus of the twentieth century...
...created the system for
the German SS rites...
...for the Cosmos of the Giants
and the Nordic Law of Destiny...
...those bIood-utopias of the masses
A scientist and artist who never even
knew what he created and whom he helped
son of an organ-pIayer in the
ZelIer ValIey...
...who in his youth pIayed the zither
for an intinerant hunchbacked magician...
...he made pressure valves for
the newIy invented steam engine
With the money, miIlions of it...
...he was free to deveIop a theory
of the creation of the earth...
...of moon and ice and fire and the
beginning and the end of the worId
Though derided by orthodox scientists,
he tought at the Vienna Academy
The Academy that later rejected the
young HitIer as an artist
A prophet imposed by Himmler
on alI universities
A man for AdoIf HitIer
The man who saw the new AtIantis
The yearning and profound
homesickness
...and of aII freethinkers and
devotees of nudism
And who knew how difficuIt it is...
...to comprehend the beginning and end
of the cosmos
That is the man for the unpredictabIe
That which the worId's insurance
companies term "Acts of God''...
...the man of the stars of this
Third Reich
Our astrologer who was first arrested,
thrown into a concentration camp...
...then empIoyed by HimmIer, earIy
prophesied the end of the worId.
The man concerned with the question;
which star has guided Hitler?
And: does he guide the stars for us?
That artist in the service at
State Security...
...who earnestIy toId why Hitler had
to come, but no onewouId beIieve him...
...on the principle that if
caIamity is conjured up...
...it is the soothsayer's doing
This is HitIer's vaIet
The Man who never saw HitIer
in his nightshirt
The IittIe SS man-in-the-street,
the bottom rung of the hierarchy...
...the voter who elected him, the
soIdier who served him day by day
Embodiment of the banaIity of eviI,
aIso of the humanity of the banaI
TelIing us of the private Iife
of the sharks
...and of the greatest one in our
cosmos of heroic Iife without heroes
The man who burned HitIer...
...who drenched in petroI the corpses
of HitIer and his wife, Eva...
...in the smal trench behind the
bombed ChanceIIery of the Reich...
and burnt the Ieader who had never
missed a performance in Bayreuth...
...of The Twilight of the Gods,
nor any heroic death in music
Wagner, are you listening to me?
Beloved echo, little echo
Are you there, are you near?
How I love you, my little dear
Because Wagnerian music is
written with bIood...
... and bIood is, as we aII know...
...a speciaI juice...
...it attracts the deviI,
unIess it is bIood from the heart
I was there from the beginning
to the end
The onIy chance for the biggest mass-
murderer in the history of the worId
("Leave from the Front" 1941
Report on Aida, Berlin Opera House )
The curtain has fallen...
...and only the breath of beauty
lingers there and in our hearts.
...pure and clear, radiant
and tender...
...brave in its beauty for the
harshness which is waiting for us
Tomorrow will bring another scene
for our soldiers on leave:
the festive crowd will have changed
to a throng of soldiers at a station
...awaiting the train which will
take them back to duty
( ln a train to the front )
Don't always grieve,
don't always weep
Don't contantly visit the grave
where l sleep
But on my birthday it would be fine
lf you'd water the flowers there
with the new wine
Before us Leningrad!
Some humanity in everyday Iife,
to transmit some human warmth...
...out of the bIood of that man
without a human face
AdoIf HitIer, aIso a mother's son;
she died much mourned by that son...
...to whom private Iife never
mattered...
...now onIy human as a living creature,
a living creature Iike a hyena...
...but also a creation of God, human,
onIy he never wanted it that way
( A report from tank troops
outside Leningrad)
Hallo! this is The Sacala
We are nearly 1,600 kilometeres from
the famous Scala Theatre in Berlin
Our splendid Soldiers Cabaret is in
one of the big, bore, former cinemas...
...of the Bolshevik Party
headquater...
...in a small town outside Leningrad,
20 kilometers behind our front line
Soliers of our Waffen SS division...
...in civilion life musicions,
singers, comedians, artists...
...have combined to give a gala
concert performance...
...for the camrades who have just
come from the forward frenches
Soldiers entertaining soldiers
Mother asked her little boy...
And whatever eIse belongs...
...to the cannibaIs, the muscIe men,
prophets and magicians of the market
And here the girIs:
one in the role of Faith...
...the other as the so-caIIed Agnostic
The post which always Iooks so sad...
...isn't reaIIy so oId, often it's
just awaiting its rebirth...
...to become the darIing of the arts,
in marches, myths...
...in reIigions and the great Iegends
of the peopIe
BIind and from the corner of
Iife's poor ghetto
EternaIIy the symboIs of the old
and the new systems...
...or ideoIogies and Utopios...
...for which or against which...
...there are suffering,
murder and sacrifices
And a few animaIs...
...a IittIe zooIogy from East and
West, us and others, now and than
For exampIe: cats
After the tests of courage
in the NAPOLA
NAPOLA were HitIer's politicaI
education institutes...
...where the boys had to gouge out
the eyes of cats...
...because the F?hrer disIiked cats;
cats eat birds...
...and the F?hrer Ioved birds
And the apes had their part to play
Destined to be mated with SIav
and other sub-human femaIes...
...to obliterate their rave
After the war
And here is the rat
An animaI characterizing
one's apponent
Nazis used it to portray Jews,
BoIsheviks to portray capitaIists.
The same rat upon which it was
proved...
that from the ash of its own
incinerated sperm...
...an antibody couId created
which would exterminate its race
If one observed the rituaIs
That's why our pIanet flew with
secret orders, as the war ended...
...over BabeIsberg fiIm studios
in particuIar...
...then caIled UFA, now DEFA...
...to keep out aII Jews for ever,
scattering ashes over the Reich...
...if possible over aII Europe,
East and West...
...which was not quite successfuI
And here is the eagIe,
the proud NibeIung symboI
For ever fighting rats and cats
and apes and dogs
And here is a typicaI American
animal, a must for any freak show
What these animaIs teII us
about humans and their time!
The naked chicken, a breeding
succes from the U.S.A.
No plucking requiered,
Iays sheIl-Iess eggs...
...boneless fIesh, guaranteed
non-plastic...
...the rubber eagIe for every home;
completeIy tasteless, of course
And the insects; they'lI survive
Iike the birds...
...after mankind has ravaged
the animaI world
A few more curiosities
Gouged out eyes of SS-men
LittIe bIue things coIIected
in East Prussia...
...by the Red Army heroes,
as they marched in
AIso, on the pattern of the
HoIIywood sperm bank...
...avaiIable for every female fan...
...with the need and the
necessary cash...
...Adolf HitIer's semen;
from a stand-in, of course
The reaI capsuIe lies hidden
in an AIpine glacier...
...guarded every summer
by trained men...
...in a lead casket...
...to be Iiberated when
the moment is ripe...
...and resurrected as a rebirth...
...in an "action'' carefuIly
pIanned since 1945...
The IabeI is easy to read
BandIeader Wolf, with heart
and genuine Austrian charm...
...attested by a femaIe authority
as having seen Tristan 120 times
It must Ieave something in a man
That's alI about the man...
...who was able to break
HoIIywood's hold...
The HoIy GraiI, the bIack stone...
...treasure of aIl Iegends
an kings...
...found by HimmIer in Montsegur,
in France, during the war...
...was pIanned to be the centre of
the new Reich in Bayreuth
The shrine of the aforementioned
reIic...
...now weII guarded untiI
the new Iiberation...
...demands annual death sacrifices...
...in secret combats amidst Alpine
mountains and Iakes
Here, welI guarded, is a dupIicate
AIso, a sacred spear
From the Vienna Treasury
Due to the possession of this...
...the Habsburgs gained worId power
after the Roman Empire
It was the spear used
to stab Christ...
...by the roman Iegionary Longinus
It was Iater ceIebrated in Parsifal
It passed into the possession of...
...the ApostIe Thomas,
Constantine the Great...
...CharIemagne, Otto, Heinrich...
...Barbarossa, the Habsburgs...
...and Hitler
Who wiII be the next...
...to ruIe the worId?
The AIsatian
A direct descendant of
HiIer's BIondi
Loaned by the garrison of
the East Berlin WaIl
It has aIready caught many escapers
It nearIy tore to pieces...
...one who has trying to fIee from
one part of Germany to the other...
...in a German uniform
The uniform of oId Prussia
And now...
...HimmIer's originaI Germanic Horse
White, with a red mane...
...he saw it once when traveIling
through PoIand by train
But he never caught it...
...aIthough he ordered...
...an entire Institute of Heredity...
...to catch it and bring it to him
The F?hrer's headquarters,
26th September, 1941
A Wehrmacht High
Command communiqu?
The destruction of Kiev...
...proceeds without mercy
The total of prisoners has
increased steadily to 492,000...
...and is steadily increasing
( GoebbeIs ) The forces need
warm clothes
Woollens, socks, vests...
A Wehrmacht High Command communiqu?.
Our
Murmansk harbour was bombed
in daylight...
...as were important factories
in and out Moscow
A convoy from North America
to Britain...
...was intercepted by German U-boats
Ten merchantmen were sunk
during an extendet action...
...including three fully loaded
tankers...
( GoebbeIs ) ...all these items are needed
at the front
Quilted or lined undervests,
scarves...in short, everything
Heil Hitler! It is just after 5 a.m.
Today is Sunday, 19th, October, 1941.
We begin today's programmes
(The Japanese Prime Minister...
...justifies his counry's attack
on PearI Harbour)
(7 th, December, 1941)
Who am I?
sometimes I imagine...
...what if my name was EIIerkamp,
just for a joke?
SS Section Leader in
AdoIf HitIer's bodyguard...
...and former fiIm projectionist of
HitIer, the ChanceIIor, in Berlin...
...and the Berghof, ObersaIzberg
After 1945, as producer and
distributor...
...first of foIksy schmaItz,
then of bIue movies
I made German fiIm history
Disney and Erwin Leiser's Mein Kampf
8mm for German home movie shows...
...on the counters of the sex shops.
HitIer is now the big hit
Hard porn under the counter...
Do you think I enjoyed doing that?
But if the pubIic...
...the purchaser, the customer...
...the peopIe, the majority wants it...
...and asks for it and pays for it?
After aII, we are Iiving in
a democracy...
...and the customer is always right;
if he pays, of course
And nowadays Hitler seIls
Or am l onIy...
...one of the greatest entertainers?
A solo performer, a ring master...
of a big show which caIIs itseIf
''history'' and "past"?
Or am l onIy the host Koberwitz...
...at one of the weekIy evenings
in 1923 in a Bavarian viIIa?
Or perhaps just a film fan...
...who watches everything roIIing past,
tinkering with projectors and cameras...
...and identifying himseIf with it aII
lf the Jews want a world war to
exterminate the European races...
...the result will be otherwise:
it will be the extermination...
...of the Jews in Europe
(HitIer, Munich, 8th November, 1942 )
They have always derided me
as a prophet
But those who laughed at that time,
a great number are laughing no more
And those who are still laughing
will soon no longer be laughing
(RolI-caII of Nazi martyrs,
9th November, 1935 )
I, SS man EIIerkamp...
...HitIer's fiIm projectionist, who
knew his most secret desires...
...his dreams, everything he wanted
beyond the reaI worId
Two or three fiIms every day,
Broadway Melody with Fred Astaire
...Snow White by Disney, The ldeal
Husband with Heinz R?hmann...
...anything with Weiss Ferdl,
Moser and R?hmann...
...and the Nibelungs by Fritz Lang,
again and again
The Flaming Punchbowl, Quax the Pilot,
The Finances of the Grand Duke...
...operettas like Scandal around
Yolanthe
I saw him welcoming Jenny Jugo,
Anni Ondra and Leni RiefenstahI
And cracking jokes with Gretl SIezak,
Renate M?Iler, OIga Tschechowa...
...Paula WesseIy and Lil Dagover
I saw him view the French fiIms...
...which he banned for the pubIic...
...and how GoebbeIs kept ChapIin's
film away from him...
...but Iet him see Gone with the Wind
Once
Whoever controls fiIm, controIs the
future. There is only one future
...the future of the fiIm...
and he knew that
He whom they calIed Gr?faz
(gr?sster Feldherr aller Zeiten )
The greatest miIitary Ieader of
aII time
ReverentIy by some, with ironic maIice
by others
But I know of him...
...that he reaIIy was the greatest...
...the greatest fiIm-maker of alI time
That had started during his
KarI May period...
...in the doss-house in Vienna
When he saw the film The Tunnel, he
wanted to become Iike the tunneIIer...
...and burrow magicaIIy, fanaticaIIy,
radicalIy...
...with an iron wiII...
...under the ocean from Europe
to America
And I watched him taIking with Speer
about the new architecture of BerIin...
...for the year of the victory 1950...
...and of the Urania cinema...
...with the signs of the zodiac on the
cupoIa and the Last Judgement on the waII
And I saw him, as Leni RiefenstahI
prepared Triumph of the Will
...with the big Nazi gathering
as the setting of a fiIm...
...his onIy lasting monument apart
from the newsreeIs of his war
What did the masses ever make after
the demoniacal creen was condemned...
...that was better fiImed than
tha uniforms and marching...
...aIways in the same rhythm:
Ieft, two, three, four...
...and after R?hmann's Quax and
WilIy BirgeI's Riding for Germany?
I saw him watching John Ford's work
the great pioneer epics...
...Westerns, with their many graves
and battIes with the Red lndians
The great operettas of Iife
How he Ioved John Wayne. And I saw
him fighting for Greta Garbo
And how he wanted to fetch
MarIene Dietrich back to Germany
Again and again he watched the fiIms,
six, eight times, one after the other...
...shot by shot, frame by frame,
to remember them
Then I saw him stopping everything
at the beginning of the war...
...never watching any feature fiIms
again...
...only the newsreeIs, alI aIone,
before they could be shown pubIicIy
A war made soIeIy for him aIone...
...to be viewed as a fiIm
inside his bunker
AII that I watched...
... l , Section Leader with the F?hrer
...ElIerkamp, projectionist in the
ChanceIIery...
...and in the Berghof, above
Berchtesgaden, ObersaIzberg...
...at the foot of the great G?II,
near the Watzmann and K?nigssee
Now managing a booth at the
October FestivaI in Munich
Am I...
...porno producer Koberwitz,
near the railway station?
Or host Koberwitz...
... in 1923?
Who am I?
Just imagine a gathering of 1923...
...unchanged to this day...
They are enacting the scene
of that period...
...forced to do it in repentence,
in the historicaI pIace...
...a sort of Oberammergau
votive offering
The chiIdren are there and
their children's chiIdren...
...each pIaying a part,
interchangabIe parts...
...we hear the carriages...
...the voices, the laughter...
...the waiting, the work,
the mourning...
...the catharsis composed of
fear and pity
1923. Here and now
Germany must blot out the
shamefuI stain of VersaiIIes...
...must do away with the humiIiations
infIicted by her enemies
Germany needs a new authority
There a three different forms
of authority
The traditionaI ruIe of
Kaiser WiIhelm II...
...has Ied to nothing
We capituIated with him,
we were humiIiated
The rule of the bigwigs and
the cIergy is over
A rational authority with
a thin-blooded IegaIity...
...wilI not rejuvenate Germany
Germany needs a charismatic authority
You wiIl Iive to see it
Germany needs a man of the peopIe...
...carried by the ligitimate wilI
of aII
Germany, our nation,
must redeem Europe
Our people must prove it is
capabIe...
...of removing the stain of shame...
...through a charismatic leader...
...who comes from among them,
not a senile patriarch
...not someone withering in the
ascetism of a steriIe bureaucrat
Only through a young, radiant Ieader
who can bring out our best...
...can we redeem ourseIves...
...can we redeem Germany...
...can we redeem Europe
Redemption
It is onIy possibIe through
authority...
...through one man, one Ieader...
...who rises from the morass,
from the humiIiations...
...from the deprivations and
disappointments
And that man wiII Iead us
That man wilI fulfiI our destiny
He wiIl be the end of our
historicaI development...
...which began with the
tribaI chiefs...
...and Ied to rationalism,
Iegitimacy through IegaIity
Charisma, the ruIe of feelings...
...the ruIe of free pathos...
...the ruIe of creativity,
order and discipIine
That wilI be the mission...
...of our people and for you,
and you, and you
That wilI be the future of
our fatherland...
...and remain the deveIopment
for Europe
The Indo-Christian calendar
is not right
The year 77 is the year zero
Venus, Queen of Heaven, has declared
war on Lucifer, God of the Earth
Rise! The Judgement is nigh!
Ye shalI reap what ye sow;
what ye choose, ye shaII receive
The secret of Judaism and its God
must finaIIy be soIved
Finish with the hair-raising
nonsense...
...of the OId Testament Iegend
of the Creation
And with alI the fairy-taIes that
Adam and Eve were Jewish
And that they were the progenitors
of mankind
And with "originaI sin", which has
subjected mankind to priesterly rule
The same goes for the nonsense that
HitIer was of Jewish origin...
...that his father was a rabbi in
Graz, name of SchickIgruber
And the senseIess contention that
Jesus was a circumcised Jew
HitIer is not dead
He exists in the universe...
...from whence he was deposited on
Earth as a foundIing
His parents sheItered him
and gave him the Name AdoIf
At the cIimax of the battIe for
the ChanceIIery in BerIin...
...WorId PoIice UFOs transport HitIer
and Bormannto the universe
Before a new era can begin,
another catastrophe wiIl come
This time not by fIood, but by fire
AII the stockpiIed atomic bombs wiII
be expIoded by WorId PoIice UFOs
After the gIobaI catastrophe...
...paradise wilI be restored,
as it was before the BiblicaI fIood
(HitIer)
41,000 Party members, then 62,000...
...then 78,000, 90,000, 137,000...
...today another 140,000
lt's just great, so why wait?
Make a date from dawn till late
The world's bewitched,
there's only the rumba
Just take hold, young or old,
you start off cold, then grow bold
Do what you're told,
do the rumba
Hop to the tune, dance like an loon,
though your steps are misbegotten
For all the world is crazy, kid...
...and the crisis is soon forgotten
The parties are once quarrelled, too,
now bill and coo, but only you...
...just stand around with a clue
Come on and rumba, just we two
The rumba's the dance that's new
I'm in a halI that l've never
been before
In the midst of strangers:
poor, careworn peopIe...
...workers, soldiers, officers,
students
I hardly notice how suddenIy somebody
stands up there and begins to speak
HesitantIy, as if trying to express
things to big for mere words
Then, suddenly, a torrent of speech
is unleashed
I am captivated, I Iisten
The man up there speaks faster
and faster
It is as if a Iight was suddenIy
shining above him
Honour! Work! The fIag! What do I hear?
StilI such a thing among these
peopIe whom God has abandoned?
The audience begins to gIow
Rays of hope iIIuminate their
careworn, grey faces
One of them gets up and Iifts
his cIenched fist high
Next to him sits an oId officer
who cries like a smaII boy
I am getting hot and coId
I don't know what is happening to me
I feel as if I heard a thunder
of cannon
MistiIy, I see a few soIdiers
suddenIy rising; they shout Hurrah!
But nobody takes any notice of them
The man up there speaks
What was Iiving inside me for years...
...suddenIy becomes cIear and assumes
tangible form; a reveIation
Ladies and gentlemenl The Rise and Fall
of the City of Mahagonny
In the midst of the ruins, one man
stands up and hoists the flag high
SuddenIy there are no more
strangers around me
We are aII brothers
I'm walking, no I'm being driven
to the rostrum
There l stand for a long time
and look into the face of that man
That is no speaker, that is a prophet!
Sweat is running in rivulets
from his forehead
Then gIowing stars of his eyes Iight up
his grey, paIe face
His fists are cIenched
Words and sentences thunder like
the Last Judgement
I no longer know what I am doing.
It is as if I've lost my senses
I am shouting Hurrah!
Nobody is surprised by it
The man up here Iooks at me
for a moment
It is a command
From that moment on I feel reborn
I know where my path Ieads to.
The path to maturity
I seem to be intoxicated
I onIy know that i gripped with my
hand on the puIsating hand of a man
This was a wow for Iife
And my eyes...
...sank into two big, bIue stars
Imagine a Baroque castle...
...or the Bechstein viIla
on the ObersaIzberg...
...or Wahnfried in Bayreuth...
...or the B?rgerbr?u in Munich
Everybody is waiting...
...the sIeeping Beauty, Arthur,
ParsifaI, Siegfried
1923, the world is waiting for a hero
RationaIism, that wiIl-o'-the-wisp...
...that deIiberateIy onIy iIIuminates
and accepts those sections of reaIity...
...which do not contradict
''experience"and the rules of thought
It is onIy a modern European
IocaI madness...
...a temporary predjudice...
...an intermezzo in the reign of
the inteIlect...
...a crude superstition which
wiII soon coIIapse...
...amidst the raucous, derisive
Iaughter of the Orient and Asia
I have fuIfiIled my task. Do your duty,
Europe beIongs to you
(Man of History. 1923.
In th manner of Max Weber)
I am not interested in power...
...that general influence
that men of letters exert
I want authority, a concrete
Ieadership of humanity
I want to see how men react to me
...how they deIegate me, change me
I wiII want an adjutant.
Authority is sensuous
Authority is blood, authority is Iife
Authority is self-reaIization
Authority is...
...feeIing...feeIing anew
Authority is Eros,
an inexhaustibIe Eros...
...and which takes in the weak people...
...the Eros of authority, the Eros
of Ieadership, the Eros of power...
...of decay, of the body of force
I am you and you are I
I've got you, and whoever
recognizes this...
...the charismatic leader,
from wherever he comes
...from beIow...
...or from above, he wiII have the
weakest peopIe behind him
He wiIl receive a mass mandate
from the women
He wiIl get the women's vote
He wiIl have it
Authority, Eros...
...body, woman
( GoebbeIs )
F?hrer, command! We follow!
( A text by FriedeI)
Innumerable stars are wandering through
the endIess depths od the universe
Radiant thoughts of God
They are aII happy, because God
wants the worId to be happy
there is onIy one among them
who doesn't share this fortune
Has God forgotten that star?
Or has he bestowed on him
the highest gIory...
...by giving him the choice to rise
by his own strength
We don't know
We are onIy a tiny fraction in
the history of this star
(Based on The Futurist Manifesto.
ItaIy. 1909 )
We sing of the Iove of danger,
crime, action and sex
We Iove the motor-car, which is
more beautifuI than Nefertiti
We want the beauty of the struggIe,
we want aggression and war...
...soIe hygiene of the worId; bIood
and earth, madness, sun
We want to sing of anarchy for which
one dies, and scorn for woman by man
We wiII destroy the museums,
the Iibraries...
...academies of aIl kinds, as weIl
as moraIism and feminism
If prayer joins us with God
then speed is our prayer
We shaII kneel on the raiIs...
It is intoxication of speed
which involves us with the deity...
...in the destroyed cities and
houses and men...
...a vast arena after the next war
for our ceremonies of the new happiness
l greet the whole of the German
people, at the front and at home...
...in town and country
''Fight and Work'', that is our
watchword for the New Year...
...and over its portals we shall write
for our fighting and working people...
...the words of Friedrich Nietzsche.:
''You walk the paths of greatness"
That shall become your supreme
courage:
What is most gentle in you
must become the toughest
Whoever spares himself will pay
for such weakness in the end
Praise what makes you hard
( GoebbeIs, 31st December, 1942 )
(HitIer's spirit by the grave of
Richard Wagner)
It was here that the spirituaI sword
was forged which made us victorious
There was nobody eIse who couId or
wouId take the roIe I wanted
So they calIed for me
First the bourgeoisie,
then the military...
...rubbing their grubby hands
with joy...
...and aIso for the defence of
their honour
do you think I didn't notice it?
then the industriaIists, to drive out
BoIshevism...
...from whose Ieader Lenin
I Iearned a Iot...
...and whose leader StaIin
couId be secretIy admired
Then the petty bourgoisie,
the workers...
...for whom I couId achive much
And the youth, to whom I gave
a purpose...
...and the students, who needed me...
...and the intelIectuaIs...
who feIt Iiberated from the Jewish
mafia of friends and foes...
...and the foreign countries,
gIad to have caIm in Europe...
with strength and solemnity
And one has to consider for how
many peopIe...
... l gave a worthwhile content
to their lives...
I gave them what they pIaced in me...
...what they wanted to hear and to do,
ans which they didn't dare
I did it and commanded it for them...
...because it concerned aII of them,
not me...
...and Germany, yes, which I realIy
Ioved, in my own way, of course
As I aIways said, didn't I?
They hate me when I'm near, you see?
How could I, the artist...
...have conducted a war without
hatred of the Jews?
What wouId I have been without
my music and architecture...
...without my Rienzi,
the source of everything...
...without my bIindness in PasewaIk,
where I resoIved to become a politician?
Without the rejection by the
Vienna Academy...
...which Ied me on to write
Mein Kampf?
Without the coIIapse of Germany...
...without VersaiIles,
which taught me to speak?
it wouId be Munich and Landsberg,
the prison...
...with the abortive putsch
before that
Everything stiII anarchic, IawIess
And what would you be without
the persecution of the Jews...
...without the readiness for
sacrifice whichwe had to offer?
I'm not responsibIe for the decIine
in standards...
...or the limitIess crueIty
which technoIogy gave me
Yes, I am the bad consience of
the democratic government
...perverse, as they say now
I made a crueI cIean-up in
the pigsty of history...
...which secretIy aIl of them wanted,
but nobody dared
If only you knew the seIf-controI
and strength I needed for decisions
I, who who was much more vaciIlating
than
...a typicaI product of Vienna
of the turn of the century...
...how I had to make myseIf
hard and reIentIess...
...facing a task which had to be done
An Austrian civiI servant's son,
with experience of the doss-house
I know, I shaII be eIected
the greatest man of aII time...
...or perish, cursed by aIl mankind
and damned in aII eternity
Am I not the Iast in the line
of the great creators...
...who in monumentaI repression
of sex and their private Iife
...achieved their work with
no mercy to themseIves...
...like Leonardo and MicheIangeIo?
They weren't easygoing
Beethoven, Wagner...
WelI, perhaps Mozart was,
but he wasn't to my taste
Yes, just Iisten to me...
...stick it out, Iadies and gentlemen
I am a human being wth two eyes
and ears, Iike you...
...and if you prick me, do l not bIeed?
I, too. I am one of you, too
i was and l am the end of
your most secret wishes...
...the Iegend and reaIity of your dreams
We must finaIIy win through
Finality? Nightmares?
Not by a Iong shot
If l consult the goddess of history,
whom I know as none of you do
If you reject me,
you reject the masses
EternaIIy, your brother, HitIer
Therefore, l pray to the Almighty
to preserve our F?hrer...
...in good health and full vigour
and gladness in his decisions
( GoebbeIs, 30th January, 1943 )
The time must come
We dead are now awakening
But not in whitish shrouds
ln black rags we arise
We emerge from our graves
Hollow-eyed and all in shreds
You gentlemen in your parlours
Forget your laughing now
There'll be no discount given
The lives you stole from us
Have to be settled in cash now
For once be paid in full
(The CosmoIogist )
We are Iiving in a critcal moment
of time
It has been proved that the moon
comes nearer to us...
...as we can see distinctly
on days when the air is cIear
The force of gravity wiII increase
Then the waters of the ocean wiII rise
in an unabating fIood
They wiII rise and cover
big areas of Iand...
...and flood over the tropics and
surround the highest mountains
Creatures wiII be freed more and more
from the weight which presses on them
They wiII grow. The cosmic rays wiII
become stronger and stronger
They influence the genes ans the
chromosomes and create mutations
New races wilI be created,
giant pIants and giant animaIs
Giant humans
Only those giants...
...the master race...
...the Iords of the earth wiII have
the strength after the battIe...
...with the Iegendary evil dwarfs
and sub-humans...
...to stave off the threatened
destruction of the world...
...for a thousand year cuIture...
as it once was in the mythicaI
AtIantis of Plato
The new Aryan race, if you wish
Before the finaI decline of the
magical powers remaining in us
The new magicaI orders and rites
wiII be reawakened
We shaII have superhuman powers.
History as we know it wiII be aboIished
The third eye, a new viriIity
wiII grow in us
The new man stands on the threshoId
The new time. The goIden age...
...paradise, saved from the great
fIood by human strength...
...and concentration the essentiaIs
of chastisementand ceremonies
The German dream of death for
a new Iife afterwards
Away with the maIpractice of
false prophets...
...with the selfish prostitution
of our most sacred instincts...
...passions and desires from
our Iegends...
...the so-caIIed sociology
of dwarfish races
Destroy what is unworthy...
...exterminate the superstitions of
science, technology and faIse reIigions
It concerns the blood-memories of
our inner eye
The souI of our blood becomes
the worId's conscience...
...hard and merciIess...
...through us the savioursof
world and cosmos for aII time
The twilight of humanity begins with us
( A pupiI of the worId ice theory )
( A pupiI of the worId ice theory )
ln this war we must never fall into
the stupor of objectivity...
...which has brought much misfortune
on the German nation in its history
When this war started, our eyes were
solely turned towards our nation...
...everything to serve her; what is
good must be preserved and encouraged
What is bad must be eliminated
and cut off
With a burning heart and
a cool head...
...we must resolve to deal with the
problems of this period of the war
Thus we shall take the path to
our ultimate victory...
...which is founded in our belief in
the F?hrer
( GoebbeIs, SportpaIast, BerIin,
18th February, 1943 )
He expects from us an effort which will
put all previous efforts in the shade
lf we ever unwaveringly believed
in victory...
...then we must do so in this hour of
national reflection and inner uplift
We see it within touching distance;
all we have to do is grasp it
We must only summon up
the determination...
...to subordinate everything to its
service, this is the law of the hour
And that's why from now on
our password must be:
''Now people rise, and storm
break loose!'"
On the 2nd July, 1934...
... l was sent, with the best wishes
of the minesweeper commander...
...to the naval section of the
War Ministry in Berlin
I was to report there
and then report to the ChanceIlery
I traveIIed with some unease and with
mixed feelings from KieI to BerIin
At the War Ministry I was sent to
the navaI chief-of-staff
...who received me amiabIe and
introduced me to some high officers...
...including AdmiraI Reader...
...and War Minister von BIomberg
After answering various questions...
... l was ordered to report to
AdoIf HitIer the next day
Report at 10.00 to SS Oberf?hrer
and Adjutant Schaub
I got up at six, cIeaned and
brushed my best uniform...
...and was ready at eight to report
At 09.30 I arrived at WiIheImstrasse...
...waited a moment,
drew a deep breath...
...then marched to the ChanceIIery
gates
I was escorted to a courtyard
near Hitler's apartment...
...and handed over to the SS-man
on duty
He took me to the SS Escort
Commando guardroom
Two SS-men were pIaying chess
They Iooked at me rather
scepticaIly
Later a few civiIians came...
...and introductions began
When it became known that I was
to be HitIer's vaIet...
...a general discussion began and
severaI matters were considered
Some of the peopIe were
especiaIIy friendly to me
I Iearned that the F?hrer was
in East Prussia...
...visiting President
von Hindenburg...
...to give him fuIl details of
the R?hm putsch
The aircraft was due back
in BerIin at three
At Iast the airport reported:
''The F?hrer's aircraft
has just landed'"
The room sprang to Iife
AImost everyone vanished in a fIash
I asked what their duties were...
...and heard that each Iooked
after a particuIar place...
...resposibIe for security in the
drive, the street, and so on
I asked someone...
...where l couId stand to get a
good view of the F?hrer's arrivaI
Just as l went to the door...
...HitIer waIked past,
Iess than a metre fom me
I stood to attention and his deep
voice greeted me: Heil!
After haIf an hour, Adjutant Schaub
came in and said to me...
...the F?hrer was too busy to see
me, l should report tomorrow
I stayed in the guardroom for a bit...
...and got to know nearIy everyone...
...including Kempe, who Iater
became HitIer's driver...
...who was very friendIy and
invited me to his quarters
Kempe had a smaIl car
at his disposal...
...and that evening we went on
a tour of BerIin
Two other SS-men came with us...
I caIIed a haIt at midnight, as
I had to be wide awake next morning
So Kempe drove me back to my quarters
in the barracks
It had been a heavy day...
...though l'd not reached my goal
SeveraI more days passed
On the fifth day, SA Gruppenf?hrer
Br?ckner came and said:
''Where's that water-rat?
The F?hrer is waiting for him'"
Br?ckner took me upstairs to the
private rooms of the F?hrer
...asked me to enter,
and stayed outside
Now l was standing aIone in the doorway
The room before me was fiIIed with
a soft, subdued Iight
Behind a Iong tabIe, covered with
papers, books and other things...
...and iIIuminated by a standard Iamp
which cast its Iight in a pooI...
...stood, his arms foIded, Adolf HitIer
I reported to him:
''Seaman First-CIass KarI-WiIheIm
Krause, First Minesweeper FlotiIIa!"
During this, HitIer came up to me
and greeted me with a handshake
He asked if I knew the reason
I was there
I said yes
He asked about my background and
whether l'd Iike to enter his service
He asked me, if l was a member of
the National SociaIist Party...
...but before I couId say no,
he gave the answer himself:
''The navy is not permitted any
poIiticaI activity. Just as weIl"
They had prepared the room for me in
the ChanceIIery and HitIer inspected it
In his presence l had to test the bed
for length, as l'm taIl...
...and than I received two Iight-
coIoured Iounge suits and a dark one
Then, when Hitler was in the garden
with some guests, I was ordered to him
It was just a week earlier, as
one of the SS Escorts toId me...
...that Hitler had suddenIy got up
from a simiIar gathering...
...and gave by telephone the order
to shoot the SA leader R?hm
WelI, then, now I stood before him
He took two garden chairs;
he decIined my heIp, saying:
''No, Ieave that to me. You wiII
have to do this often enough.''
He placed the chairs in the middIe of
the garden, facing each other
Then he toId me to sit down;
I sat exactly opposite to him
He said:
''You are a saiIor and I shalI not
put you on oath, I reIy on you.
''What you observe here concerns no
one. You are responsibIe onIy to me."
''You may receive orders through
my adjutant.
''Apart from that, nobody has the right
to give you orders."
I was then responsibIe for Hitler's
personaI things: his cIothing...
...later for his meaIs; I don't mean
the cooking but the serving
The Berlin househoId was run by Herr
Kannenberg and his wife
In Munich there was Frau Winter...
...and on the Obersalzberg, firstly
HitIer's sister, Frau RaubaI
The daiIy routine in BerIin...
...remained unchanged in the first
year; untiI 1937, that is
Before retiring...
...to his realIy private rooms
on the first fIoor...
...HitIer aIways toId me
when to wake him
''I shaII get up at nine-thirty...
''...but the newspapers must be
outside the door by eight''
Often a handshake
In the first year, waking was
aIways at nine-thirty
I answered: "I wish you
a restfuI night."
He always Iocked himseIf in
His rooms on the first fIoor
of the ChanceIIery...
...consisted of a private study
with a library...
...his bedroom and the bath
In the first year, waking was
newspapers and messages...
...were placed on a stooI outside
the door by the duty SS-man
Later that became my task;
then the SS-man...
...woke me, gave me the messages
and newspapers...
...which I pIaced on the stooI
HitIer onIy put his hand outside...
...the door bareIy opened and
he groped for the papers
The stool had to be in the
right pIace
In the first years, there was
no beIl connecting us
I had to go to his bedroom
and knock
Then say: ''Good morning, F?hrer,
it is nine-thirty", for example
When the beII was put in, I had
to press the button three times...
...to ring the belI at the
head of his bed
Then he pressed the button on
his bedside table three times
Only then did I knock an the door
and teII him the time of day
He answered "Thanks", "Thank you'',
or "Thank you very much"
From that I'd guess his mood
RareIy did he express any
speciaI wish
After waking him, I went to
the kitchen...
...and prepared his breakfast
Only the miIk was heated by
the duty cook
Breakfast was always the same:
two cups of warm milk...
...as many as ten Leibnitz biscuits...
...and a haIf bar of bitter
chocoIate, broken up
The milk was kept warm with
a coffee-heater
If he had been awakened at
nine-thirty...
...the beIl wouId ring at
09.52 or 09.53
I carried the tray to his bedroom
and from there to the Iibrary
He opened the bedroom door
It was up to me to open the
other doors
Since being awakened...
...HitIer had bathed, shaved
and dressed
He rang the beIl when he
put on his jacket
Whatever time he was awakened...
...his toiIet aIways took about
twenty minutes
He shaved hemself,
using two razors...
...the second for a final shave
New bIades daiIy, so he required
two bIades a day
He used Hobby-horse LiIies'-miIk
soap, Pieri shaving-cream...
...Arrow-ring skin-cream and
Birch-water hair tonic
He tried another brand, but
went back to Birch-water
He used Pine-needIe bath cubes
With breakfast, I usuaIIy spoke
first; sometimes he did
I said: "Morning, F?hrer.''
If he was in a bad mood,
I just said: ''Morning.'"
then his repIy was: "Good morning'",
or onIy "HeiI'"
I repIied: '"Heil",
without adding anything
He breakfasted standing
in the library...
...gIancing through the latest
German news agency reports...
...which I took in with
the breakfast
I took the opportunity to submit
the menu for luncheon
The first course was always
the dish for his guests
Then the vegetarian courses...
...from which he wouId make
a seIection for himseIf
Sometimes he'd request something
different, Iike poached eggs
Regarding the dish for his guests,
he would ask:
''Does the dessert come after that?''
Breakfast Iasted three to five minutes
Then HitIer went to his officiaI
study in the ChancelIery
In the first years, we had coffee
at the HoteI Kaiserhof at four-thirty
A few security men waIked across
the WiIhelmpIatz to the hoteI
HitIer, with one or two of his aides
and l drove to a side entrance...
...where the manager and the security
men were waiting to escort us
There was aIways a corner tabIe
reserved for us
G?ring or GoebbeIs usualIy attended,
but rareIy together
The meetings Iasted untiI about seven,
then we went back to the ChanceIIery...
...where everything was being prepared
for the evening meaI
During the first years, many actors
and opera singers were invited
The dinner itsseIf was quite informal
During the meal, l submitted a Iist
of up to haIf a dozen fiIms...
...which couId be shown on
that evening; German and foreign films
HitIer then decided which fiIms
shouId be screened on that evening
After dinner and a quick cup of
coffee in the smoking room...
...the music room was converted for
the fiIm show
The equipment was exactly the same as
in a pubIic cinema
Films were suppIied by the Propaganda
Ministry and fiIm distributors
As many as three fiIms were shown
per evening
If HitIer didn't Iike one, another
has to be substituted immediateIy
He broke off the projection saying:
''Stop! Utter rubbish! Next, please'"
Until the war, HitIer viewed every
German and foriegn film...
...and eventhose films which
the Propaganda Ministry...
...had not yet passedfor pubIic
showing
HitIer himseIf then made the decision
But during the war HitIer
Iooked at nothing but newsreeIs
The newsreels were shown silent
whiIe an adjutant read out the text...
...and Hitler decided on the words;
often he changed them
From 1942 onwards, Hitler didn't even
Iook at the newsreeIs
But he stiII Iistened to records of
Franz Lehar and Johann Strauss
For exampIe: The Merry Widow
or Die Fledermaus
After the projection, towards midnight,
they returned to the smoking room...
...where the orderIies had arranged
a cosy coffee corner in the meantime
Everybody sat down quite informaIIy
and liveIy discussions started
AII sorts of aIcohoIic drinks, coffee,
cakes and sandwiches were served
here guests even smoked, but not
in his immediate vicinity
Every subject under the sun was
discussed, except poIitics
Even Iadie's fashions
One couId see that HitIer was reaIIy
a very genial host
I heard this not onIy from German
visitors, but from foreign guests
I was usuaIly present and couId hear
and see everything...
...because I was onIy one or two
metres away from HitIer's tabIe
It usuaIly didn't break up untiI
two or three in the morning
After the guests had gone,
I Iaid out the latest evening papers...
...and the News Agency buIIetins,
which HitIer studied cIoseIy
In the meantime a cup of vaIerian
tea and a smaIl bottIe of brandy...
...were placed, by me, on his
bedside tabIe
After HitIer had read the papers and
Iatest news, he went to his rooms above
His daily routine remained the same
until 1938
Until then, we never spent Sunday in
BerIin, we went to the ObersaIzberg
We want to see our F?hrer!
( Count Ciano's visit to BerIin to sign
the German-ItaIian Axis Pact. 1 936 )
We are still overwhelmed by the
scene on Wilhelmplatz
From thousands of voices...
...the Deutschlandlied
rose towards heaven
This song became a solemn vow...
...confirming the action of those
who have brought about this alliance
and now thousands of eyes are turning...
...from the Wilhelmplatz
and from the sidestreets...
...across to the Reichs Chancellery,
to the door of that balcony
(Radio Iinkup with alI war fronts,
24th December, 1942 )
This is StaIingrad, here is the
VoIga front
CaIIing the Lapland front
We are in the barracks in
the Finish forest
Southern France, our air forces
This is a miIitary airfieId
in southern France
on Christmas Eve, 1937,
HitIer had a suprise for me
He was at his Munich apartment,
Prinzregentenstrasse 16
I was invited to a famiIy celebration...
...and waited impatiently for HitIer
to reIease me for the evening
But he returned to the room
where the gifts were laid out...
...to choose one more present
We then packed it together,
squatting on the carpet
As he heId a knot, for a joke I
wound the stringround his thumb
And in return, Iaughing...
...he tapped me in fun on the back of
the neck with his Ieft hand
He toId me to deliver the package,
but first to Iay out his dinner jacket
When I Iooked at him increduIousIy
he said: "Yes, my dinner jacket''
CaIIing Crete once more
CaIIing the BIack Sea ports
This is the Black Sea port
on Crimean peninsuIa
We ask comrades to join us in the
beautifuI Christmas caroI:
SiIent night, hoIy night
He asked me to doubIe-check
aII the preparations...
...the brewing of the punch...
...and that nobody was standing
outside the door, as usuaI...
...and that onIy one Munich policeman
was on duty outside the house
When he said that,
we went quietIy downstairs
We realIy hurried Iike thieves through
the house to a waiting taxi
Nobody had noticed us,
which pleased Hitler very much
I was about to take my pIace
next to the driver...
...when HitIer puIled me onto the
back seat, on his right-hand side
He whispered to me some destinations,
which I passed on to the driver
So we crossed and recrossed Munich
that Christmas Eve...
...travelIing from one pIace
to the other...
...ending up at the LuitpoId Caf?
Rather surprised, l wondered
what he wanted there at that hour
The taxi driver must have been
puzzIed, he didn't know his passenger
He was visibIy reIieved when we paid
him off at the LuitpoId Caf?
The moment he had the money in his
hand, he drove off at top speed
He must have thought we were
a coupIe of madmen
Perhaps he wasn't quite wrong,
because l found in uncanny, too
Then without going into the Caf?, we
waIked back to the K?nigIicher PIatz
As I feIt responsibIe for his security,
I turned occasionalIy...
...which made him remark:
''Come, come waIk beside me. You
needn't be afraid because of me.
''Nobody would beIieve that AdoIf
HitIer strolIed about Munich aIone."
Whenever someone passed, he onIy
Iowered his head or Iooked aside
And, reaIly, no one did recognize
him...
...we reached our flat in the
Prinzregentenstrasse
On our way, icy sIeet began to falI
He had onIy supported himseIf on
my shouIder before...
...but finaIIy we waIked arm in arm,
as he wore new patent-Ieather shoes
WelI, somebody must have noticed
something
HimmIer and Rattenhuber who were
in charge of the Escort Commando...
...reproached me the next day because
I had not informed anybody
And Himmler gave me orders
that in future...
...even if Hitler forbade me, I must
report these things to the Escort
But I never obeyed this order
from HimmIer, the Reichsf?hrer SS
This is Radio Moscow
broadcasting in German
The first month of the New Year 1943...
...ended with the crushing of the
Hitlerite forces...
...which were encircled in the
western-central district of Stalingrad
Commanding Vice-Field Marshal
of the German army, Paulus...
...his entire staff and a further
fifteen generals surrendered
Astronomers of the University of
CaIifornia in BerkeIey...
...disovered a gaIaxy which is
the furthest away from us
This enormous system consisting of
over one thousand suns...
...is at a distance of eight miIIiard
Iight years
The Iight which reaches us from there...
...was sent on its journey to us...
...at a time when our sun and its
pIanets did not even exist
3 C 123 appears on photographs...
...as a blurred IittIe spot
of irreguIar shape
...that presumabIy represents other
gaIaxies of the same group
The interpretation of the spectoscopic
data brought a surprise:
That object shows the greatest
dispIacement of red of the spectrum...
...which was ever observed in any
gaIaxy
Therefore, 3 C 123...
Iight away from us...
...and is five to ten times bigger
than our own MiIky Way
In the opinion of Professor Dr.
Horst L?b of Giessen...
...6% of aII suns in the universe...
...are circIed by pIanets which could
be inhabited by some Iiving beings
This estimated percentage
appears relativeIy smaII...
...but the number of inhabited heavenIy
bodies wouId stiIl be enormous...
...because there are, roughIy
estimated, 100 miIliard MiIky Ways...
...which consist of about fifty
miIliard stars each
If one considers the concept of
the infinity of the universe...
...to its logicaI concIusion...
...one arrives at unreaIity...
...because infinity is nothing but a
mathematicaI expression of unreaIity
If one tries to imagine
that the MiIky Way...
...consists of more than a miIIiard
fixed stars...
...many with a diameter greater than
the distance between earth and sun...
...and that it does not represent
the fixed poIe of the cosmos...
...but races at a speed of
six hundred kiIometres per second...
...a thousand times faster than a sheII,
to some pIace or other...
...then the assumption that alI this...
...could have anything to do with
reality is reduced to a mere fantasy
The picture becomes even more unreaI
if one foIIows the Iatest conjecture.. .
...that the sum of aII conglomerations
of stars...
...forms a cIose finite system...
...in the shape of a rotation-
eIIipsoid...
...then one cannot disregardthe idea...
...that it is nothing but
one of the moIecuIes...
...from which greater bodies are
constructed
The universe as a molecuIe
The molecuIe as an universe
What did Stifter write about the Jew
Abdias and his blind daughter Ditha?
''If there are humans upon whom such
a haiI of disasters faIIs...
''...that they finaIly just stand...
''...and Iet the haiI beat down
onto them...
''...then there must be peopIe and stars,
ar at Ieast whoIe continents...
''...which are pIagued by misfortunes
with such persistence...
''...that it seems that aIl the Iawsof
nature have been reversed...
''...in order to bring caIamity
to them alone.
''In that way, the ancients arrived
at the concept of fate."
And we to that of destiny...
...for which some dirty their trousers
in eagerness to grab at their fate...
...and burn their fingers
If aIl goes weIl, it's valiant.
But mostIy it ends miserabIy
Faced with fate, it sometimes seems
to us...
Iike an invisibIe arm reaching out
from the cIouds...
...and using us in incomprehensibIe
ways, for which we then bear the guiIt.
End of Part 2
''A GERMAN DREAM'"
The faith that must be
in all of us...
to work and to struggle,
for the nation for the Reich
( GoebbeIs ) 30th January 1943
A GERMAN DREAM
... until the
End of the WorId
( Albert Einstein, 24th October, 1940 )
This war will not be over until
German tyranny in Europe is overcome
lt is less certain whether,
once peace is finally achieved...
...it will bring about an organization
to safeguard against future wars...
...in Europe or all the countries
in the world
Only it that is achieved...
...will this generation's suffering
not have been in vain
For that reason, everybody should be
aware of that fact...
...that liberation without organized
security of liberty for the future...
...is only a postponement
Achievement of that aim depends on
every individual
Everyone must resist an accaetance
of the condition of slavery
Everyone should, whenever possible...
...act in such way...
...that oppressors and their
organization receive no support
Everyone should willingly
accept privation...
...if that will weaken the economy
and fighting power of the enemy
Nobody can rob the European
of independence...
...if he holds onto it
with all his strength
(The Magician )
Ladies and gentIemen!
This is the masseur of
Heinrich HimmIer...
...the Reichsf?hrer of the SS
Yes, I'm the man with the magicaI hands
HimmIer's masseur, through whom one
couId buy humanity for money
The man needed by the heroes...
when their stomachs could no Ionger
endure the bIood of their victims
A miracle-heaIer, priest and
physician...
...who saved the dutch from
deportation to PoIand...
...and HoIIand from fIooding in 1945,
as envisaged in the Nazi pIans...
...and who arranged the disbandment,
not "Iiquidation" of the camps
For how much money?
You need money to be human in such
times. Or at any time, naturaIIy
The man, who was an aIchemist and new
Copernicus of the twentieth century...
...created the system for
the German SS rites...
...for the Cosmos of the Giants
and the Nordic Law of Destiny...
...those bIood-utopias of the masses
A scientist and artist who never even
knew what he created and whom he helped
son of an organ-pIayer in the
ZelIer ValIey...
...who in his youth pIayed the zither
for an intinerant hunchbacked magician...
...he made pressure valves for
the newIy invented steam engine
With the money, miIlions of it...
...he was free to deveIop a theory
of the creation of the earth...
...of moon and ice and fire and the
beginning and the end of the worId
Though derided by orthodox scientists,
he tought at the Vienna Academy
The Academy that later rejected the
young HitIer as an artist
A prophet imposed by Himmler
on alI universities
A man for AdoIf HitIer
The man who saw the new AtIantis
The yearning and profound
homesickness
...and of aII freethinkers and
devotees of nudism
And who knew how difficuIt it is...
...to comprehend the beginning and end
of the cosmos
That is the man for the unpredictabIe
That which the worId's insurance
companies term "Acts of God''...
...the man of the stars of this
Third Reich
Our astrologer who was first arrested,
thrown into a concentration camp...
...then empIoyed by HimmIer, earIy
prophesied the end of the worId.
The man concerned with the question;
which star has guided Hitler?
And: does he guide the stars for us?
That artist in the service at
State Security...
...who earnestIy toId why Hitler had
to come, but no onewouId beIieve him...
...on the principle that if
caIamity is conjured up...
...it is the soothsayer's doing
This is HitIer's vaIet
The Man who never saw HitIer
in his nightshirt
The IittIe SS man-in-the-street,
the bottom rung of the hierarchy...
...the voter who elected him, the
soIdier who served him day by day
Embodiment of the banaIity of eviI,
aIso of the humanity of the banaI
TelIing us of the private Iife
of the sharks
...and of the greatest one in our
cosmos of heroic Iife without heroes
The man who burned HitIer...
...who drenched in petroI the corpses
of HitIer and his wife, Eva...
...in the smal trench behind the
bombed ChanceIIery of the Reich...
and burnt the Ieader who had never
missed a performance in Bayreuth...
...of The Twilight of the Gods,
nor any heroic death in music
Wagner, are you listening to me?
Beloved echo, little echo
Are you there, are you near?
How I love you, my little dear
Because Wagnerian music is
written with bIood...
... and bIood is, as we aII know...
...a speciaI juice...
...it attracts the deviI,
unIess it is bIood from the heart
I was there from the beginning
to the end
The onIy chance for the biggest mass-
murderer in the history of the worId
("Leave from the Front" 1941
Report on Aida, Berlin Opera House )
The curtain has fallen...
...and only the breath of beauty
lingers there and in our hearts.
...pure and clear, radiant
and tender...
...brave in its beauty for the
harshness which is waiting for us
Tomorrow will bring another scene
for our soldiers on leave:
the festive crowd will have changed
to a throng of soldiers at a station
...awaiting the train which will
take them back to duty
( ln a train to the front )
Don't always grieve,
don't always weep
Don't contantly visit the grave
where l sleep
But on my birthday it would be fine
lf you'd water the flowers there
with the new wine
Before us Leningrad!
Some humanity in everyday Iife,
to transmit some human warmth...
...out of the bIood of that man
without a human face
AdoIf HitIer, aIso a mother's son;
she died much mourned by that son...
...to whom private Iife never
mattered...
...now onIy human as a living creature,
a living creature Iike a hyena...
...but also a creation of God, human,
onIy he never wanted it that way
( A report from tank troops
outside Leningrad)
Hallo! this is The Sacala
We are nearly 1,600 kilometeres from
the famous Scala Theatre in Berlin
Our splendid Soldiers Cabaret is in
one of the big, bore, former cinemas...
...of the Bolshevik Party
headquater...
...in a small town outside Leningrad,
20 kilometers behind our front line
Soliers of our Waffen SS division...
...in civilion life musicions,
singers, comedians, artists...
...have combined to give a gala
concert performance...
...for the camrades who have just
come from the forward frenches
Soldiers entertaining soldiers
Mother asked her little boy...
And whatever eIse belongs...
...to the cannibaIs, the muscIe men,
prophets and magicians of the market
And here the girIs:
one in the role of Faith...
...the other as the so-caIIed Agnostic
The post which always Iooks so sad...
...isn't reaIIy so oId, often it's
just awaiting its rebirth...
...to become the darIing of the arts,
in marches, myths...
...in reIigions and the great Iegends
of the peopIe
BIind and from the corner of
Iife's poor ghetto
EternaIIy the symboIs of the old
and the new systems...
...or ideoIogies and Utopios...
...for which or against which...
...there are suffering,
murder and sacrifices
And a few animaIs...
...a IittIe zooIogy from East and
West, us and others, now and than
For exampIe: cats
After the tests of courage
in the NAPOLA
NAPOLA were HitIer's politicaI
education institutes...
...where the boys had to gouge out
the eyes of cats...
...because the F?hrer disIiked cats;
cats eat birds...
...and the F?hrer Ioved birds
And the apes had their part to play
Destined to be mated with SIav
and other sub-human femaIes...
...to obliterate their rave
After the war
And here is the rat
An animaI characterizing
one's apponent
Nazis used it to portray Jews,
BoIsheviks to portray capitaIists.
The same rat upon which it was
proved...
that from the ash of its own
incinerated sperm...
...an antibody couId created
which would exterminate its race
If one observed the rituaIs
That's why our pIanet flew with
secret orders, as the war ended...
...over BabeIsberg fiIm studios
in particuIar...
...then caIled UFA, now DEFA...
...to keep out aII Jews for ever,
scattering ashes over the Reich...
...if possible over aII Europe,
East and West...
...which was not quite successfuI
And here is the eagIe,
the proud NibeIung symboI
For ever fighting rats and cats
and apes and dogs
And here is a typicaI American
animal, a must for any freak show
What these animaIs teII us
about humans and their time!
The naked chicken, a breeding
succes from the U.S.A.
No plucking requiered,
Iays sheIl-Iess eggs...
...boneless fIesh, guaranteed
non-plastic...
...the rubber eagIe for every home;
completeIy tasteless, of course
And the insects; they'lI survive
Iike the birds...
...after mankind has ravaged
the animaI world
A few more curiosities
Gouged out eyes of SS-men
LittIe bIue things coIIected
in East Prussia...
...by the Red Army heroes,
as they marched in
AIso, on the pattern of the
HoIIywood sperm bank...
...avaiIable for every female fan...
...with the need and the
necessary cash...
...Adolf HitIer's semen;
from a stand-in, of course
The reaI capsuIe lies hidden
in an AIpine glacier...
...guarded every summer
by trained men...
...in a lead casket...
...to be Iiberated when
the moment is ripe...
...and resurrected as a rebirth...
...in an "action'' carefuIly
pIanned since 1945...
The IabeI is easy to read
BandIeader Wolf, with heart
and genuine Austrian charm...
...attested by a femaIe authority
as having seen Tristan 120 times
It must Ieave something in a man
That's alI about the man...
...who was able to break
HoIIywood's hold...
The HoIy GraiI, the bIack stone...
...treasure of aIl Iegends
an kings...
...found by HimmIer in Montsegur,
in France, during the war...
...was pIanned to be the centre of
the new Reich in Bayreuth
The shrine of the aforementioned
reIic...
...now weII guarded untiI
the new Iiberation...
...demands annual death sacrifices...
...in secret combats amidst Alpine
mountains and Iakes
Here, welI guarded, is a dupIicate
AIso, a sacred spear
From the Vienna Treasury
Due to the possession of this...
...the Habsburgs gained worId power
after the Roman Empire
It was the spear used
to stab Christ...
...by the roman Iegionary Longinus
It was Iater ceIebrated in Parsifal
It passed into the possession of...
...the ApostIe Thomas,
Constantine the Great...
...CharIemagne, Otto, Heinrich...
...Barbarossa, the Habsburgs...
...and Hitler
Who wiII be the next...
...to ruIe the worId?
The AIsatian
A direct descendant of
HiIer's BIondi
Loaned by the garrison of
the East Berlin WaIl
It has aIready caught many escapers
It nearIy tore to pieces...
...one who has trying to fIee from
one part of Germany to the other...
...in a German uniform
The uniform of oId Prussia
And now...
...HimmIer's originaI Germanic Horse
White, with a red mane...
...he saw it once when traveIling
through PoIand by train
But he never caught it...
...aIthough he ordered...
...an entire Institute of Heredity...
...to catch it and bring it to him
The F?hrer's headquarters,
26th September, 1941
A Wehrmacht High
Command communiqu?
The destruction of Kiev...
...proceeds without mercy
The total of prisoners has
increased steadily to 492,000...
...and is steadily increasing
( GoebbeIs ) The forces need
warm clothes
Woollens, socks, vests...
A Wehrmacht High Command communiqu?.
Our
Murmansk harbour was bombed
in daylight...
...as were important factories
in and out Moscow
A convoy from North America
to Britain...
...was intercepted by German U-boats
Ten merchantmen were sunk
during an extendet action...
...including three fully loaded
tankers...
( GoebbeIs ) ...all these items are needed
at the front
Quilted or lined undervests,
scarves...in short, everything
Heil Hitler! It is just after 5 a.m.
Today is Sunday, 19th, October, 1941.
We begin today's programmes
(The Japanese Prime Minister...
...justifies his counry's attack
on PearI Harbour)
(7 th, December, 1941)
Who am I?
sometimes I imagine...
...what if my name was EIIerkamp,
just for a joke?
SS Section Leader in
AdoIf HitIer's bodyguard...
...and former fiIm projectionist of
HitIer, the ChanceIIor, in Berlin...
...and the Berghof, ObersaIzberg
After 1945, as producer and
distributor...
...first of foIksy schmaItz,
then of bIue movies
I made German fiIm history
Disney and Erwin Leiser's Mein Kampf
8mm for German home movie shows...
...on the counters of the sex shops.
HitIer is now the big hit
Hard porn under the counter...
Do you think I enjoyed doing that?
But if the pubIic...
...the purchaser, the customer...
...the peopIe, the majority wants it...
...and asks for it and pays for it?
After aII, we are Iiving in
a democracy...
...and the customer is always right;
if he pays, of course
And nowadays Hitler seIls
Or am l onIy...
...one of the greatest entertainers?
A solo performer, a ring master...
of a big show which caIIs itseIf
''history'' and "past"?
Or am l onIy the host Koberwitz...
...at one of the weekIy evenings
in 1923 in a Bavarian viIIa?
Or perhaps just a film fan...
...who watches everything roIIing past,
tinkering with projectors and cameras...
...and identifying himseIf with it aII
lf the Jews want a world war to
exterminate the European races...
...the result will be otherwise:
it will be the extermination...
...of the Jews in Europe
(HitIer, Munich, 8th November, 1942 )
They have always derided me
as a prophet
But those who laughed at that time,
a great number are laughing no more
And those who are still laughing
will soon no longer be laughing
(RolI-caII of Nazi martyrs,
9th November, 1935 )
I, SS man EIIerkamp...
...HitIer's fiIm projectionist, who
knew his most secret desires...
...his dreams, everything he wanted
beyond the reaI worId
Two or three fiIms every day,
Broadway Melody with Fred Astaire
...Snow White by Disney, The ldeal
Husband with Heinz R?hmann...
...anything with Weiss Ferdl,
Moser and R?hmann...
...and the Nibelungs by Fritz Lang,
again and again
The Flaming Punchbowl, Quax the Pilot,
The Finances of the Grand Duke...
...operettas like Scandal around
Yolanthe
I saw him welcoming Jenny Jugo,
Anni Ondra and Leni RiefenstahI
And cracking jokes with Gretl SIezak,
Renate M?Iler, OIga Tschechowa...
...Paula WesseIy and Lil Dagover
I saw him view the French fiIms...
...which he banned for the pubIic...
...and how GoebbeIs kept ChapIin's
film away from him...
...but Iet him see Gone with the Wind
Once
Whoever controls fiIm, controIs the
future. There is only one future
...the future of the fiIm...
and he knew that
He whom they calIed Gr?faz
(gr?sster Feldherr aller Zeiten )
The greatest miIitary Ieader of
aII time
ReverentIy by some, with ironic maIice
by others
But I know of him...
...that he reaIIy was the greatest...
...the greatest fiIm-maker of alI time
That had started during his
KarI May period...
...in the doss-house in Vienna
When he saw the film The Tunnel, he
wanted to become Iike the tunneIIer...
...and burrow magicaIIy, fanaticaIIy,
radicalIy...
...with an iron wiII...
...under the ocean from Europe
to America
And I watched him taIking with Speer
about the new architecture of BerIin...
...for the year of the victory 1950...
...and of the Urania cinema...
...with the signs of the zodiac on the
cupoIa and the Last Judgement on the waII
And I saw him, as Leni RiefenstahI
prepared Triumph of the Will
...with the big Nazi gathering
as the setting of a fiIm...
...his onIy lasting monument apart
from the newsreeIs of his war
What did the masses ever make after
the demoniacal creen was condemned...
...that was better fiImed than
tha uniforms and marching...
...aIways in the same rhythm:
Ieft, two, three, four...
...and after R?hmann's Quax and
WilIy BirgeI's Riding for Germany?
I saw him watching John Ford's work
the great pioneer epics...
...Westerns, with their many graves
and battIes with the Red lndians
The great operettas of Iife
How he Ioved John Wayne. And I saw
him fighting for Greta Garbo
And how he wanted to fetch
MarIene Dietrich back to Germany
Again and again he watched the fiIms,
six, eight times, one after the other...
...shot by shot, frame by frame,
to remember them
Then I saw him stopping everything
at the beginning of the war...
...never watching any feature fiIms
again...
...only the newsreeIs, alI aIone,
before they could be shown pubIicIy
A war made soIeIy for him aIone...
...to be viewed as a fiIm
inside his bunker
AII that I watched...
... l , Section Leader with the F?hrer
...ElIerkamp, projectionist in the
ChanceIIery...
...and in the Berghof, above
Berchtesgaden, ObersaIzberg...
...at the foot of the great G?II,
near the Watzmann and K?nigssee
Now managing a booth at the
October FestivaI in Munich
Am I...
...porno producer Koberwitz,
near the railway station?
Or host Koberwitz...
... in 1923?
Who am I?
Just imagine a gathering of 1923...
...unchanged to this day...
They are enacting the scene
of that period...
...forced to do it in repentence,
in the historicaI pIace...
...a sort of Oberammergau
votive offering
The chiIdren are there and
their children's chiIdren...
...each pIaying a part,
interchangabIe parts...
...we hear the carriages...
...the voices, the laughter...
...the waiting, the work,
the mourning...
...the catharsis composed of
fear and pity
1923. Here and now
Germany must blot out the
shamefuI stain of VersaiIIes...
...must do away with the humiIiations
infIicted by her enemies
Germany needs a new authority
There a three different forms
of authority
The traditionaI ruIe of
Kaiser WiIhelm II...
...has Ied to nothing
We capituIated with him,
we were humiIiated
The rule of the bigwigs and
the cIergy is over
A rational authority with
a thin-blooded IegaIity...
...wilI not rejuvenate Germany
Germany needs a charismatic authority
You wiIl Iive to see it
Germany needs a man of the peopIe...
...carried by the ligitimate wilI
of aII
Germany, our nation,
must redeem Europe
Our people must prove it is
capabIe...
...of removing the stain of shame...
...through a charismatic leader...
...who comes from among them,
not a senile patriarch
...not someone withering in the
ascetism of a steriIe bureaucrat
Only through a young, radiant Ieader
who can bring out our best...
...can we redeem ourseIves...
...can we redeem Germany...
...can we redeem Europe
Redemption
It is onIy possibIe through
authority...
...through one man, one Ieader...
...who rises from the morass,
from the humiIiations...
...from the deprivations and
disappointments
And that man wiII Iead us
That man wilI fulfiI our destiny
He wiIl be the end of our
historicaI development...
...which began with the
tribaI chiefs...
...and Ied to rationalism,
Iegitimacy through IegaIity
Charisma, the ruIe of feelings...
...the ruIe of free pathos...
...the ruIe of creativity,
order and discipIine
That wilI be the mission...
...of our people and for you,
and you, and you
That wilI be the future of
our fatherland...
...and remain the deveIopment
for Europe
The Indo-Christian calendar
is not right
The year 77 is the year zero
Venus, Queen of Heaven, has declared
war on Lucifer, God of the Earth
Rise! The Judgement is nigh!
Ye shalI reap what ye sow;
what ye choose, ye shaII receive
The secret of Judaism and its God
must finaIIy be soIved
Finish with the hair-raising
nonsense...
...of the OId Testament Iegend
of the Creation
And with alI the fairy-taIes that
Adam and Eve were Jewish
And that they were the progenitors
of mankind
And with "originaI sin", which has
subjected mankind to priesterly rule
The same goes for the nonsense that
HitIer was of Jewish origin...
...that his father was a rabbi in
Graz, name of SchickIgruber
And the senseIess contention that
Jesus was a circumcised Jew
HitIer is not dead
He exists in the universe...
...from whence he was deposited on
Earth as a foundIing
His parents sheItered him
and gave him the Name AdoIf
At the cIimax of the battIe for
the ChanceIIery in BerIin...
...WorId PoIice UFOs transport HitIer
and Bormannto the universe
Before a new era can begin,
another catastrophe wiIl come
This time not by fIood, but by fire
AII the stockpiIed atomic bombs wiII
be expIoded by WorId PoIice UFOs
After the gIobaI catastrophe...
...paradise wilI be restored,
as it was before the BiblicaI fIood
(HitIer)
41,000 Party members, then 62,000...
...then 78,000, 90,000, 137,000...
...today another 140,000
lt's just great, so why wait?
Make a date from dawn till late
The world's bewitched,
there's only the rumba
Just take hold, young or old,
you start off cold, then grow bold
Do what you're told,
do the rumba
Hop to the tune, dance like an loon,
though your steps are misbegotten
For all the world is crazy, kid...
...and the crisis is soon forgotten
The parties are once quarrelled, too,
now bill and coo, but only you...
...just stand around with a clue
Come on and rumba, just we two
The rumba's the dance that's new
I'm in a halI that l've never
been before
In the midst of strangers:
poor, careworn peopIe...
...workers, soldiers, officers,
students
I hardly notice how suddenIy somebody
stands up there and begins to speak
HesitantIy, as if trying to express
things to big for mere words
Then, suddenly, a torrent of speech
is unleashed
I am captivated, I Iisten
The man up there speaks faster
and faster
It is as if a Iight was suddenIy
shining above him
Honour! Work! The fIag! What do I hear?
StilI such a thing among these
peopIe whom God has abandoned?
The audience begins to gIow
Rays of hope iIIuminate their
careworn, grey faces
One of them gets up and Iifts
his cIenched fist high
Next to him sits an oId officer
who cries like a smaII boy
I am getting hot and coId
I don't know what is happening to me
I feel as if I heard a thunder
of cannon
MistiIy, I see a few soIdiers
suddenIy rising; they shout Hurrah!
But nobody takes any notice of them
The man up there speaks
What was Iiving inside me for years...
...suddenIy becomes cIear and assumes
tangible form; a reveIation
Ladies and gentlemenl The Rise and Fall
of the City of Mahagonny
In the midst of the ruins, one man
stands up and hoists the flag high
SuddenIy there are no more
strangers around me
We are aII brothers
I'm walking, no I'm being driven
to the rostrum
There l stand for a long time
and look into the face of that man
That is no speaker, that is a prophet!
Sweat is running in rivulets
from his forehead
Then gIowing stars of his eyes Iight up
his grey, paIe face
His fists are cIenched
Words and sentences thunder like
the Last Judgement
I no longer know what I am doing.
It is as if I've lost my senses
I am shouting Hurrah!
Nobody is surprised by it
The man up here Iooks at me
for a moment
It is a command
From that moment on I feel reborn
I know where my path Ieads to.
The path to maturity
I seem to be intoxicated
I onIy know that i gripped with my
hand on the puIsating hand of a man
This was a wow for Iife
And my eyes...
...sank into two big, bIue stars
Imagine a Baroque castle...
...or the Bechstein viIla
on the ObersaIzberg...
...or Wahnfried in Bayreuth...
...or the B?rgerbr?u in Munich
Everybody is waiting...
...the sIeeping Beauty, Arthur,
ParsifaI, Siegfried
1923, the world is waiting for a hero
RationaIism, that wiIl-o'-the-wisp...
...that deIiberateIy onIy iIIuminates
and accepts those sections of reaIity...
...which do not contradict
''experience"and the rules of thought
It is onIy a modern European
IocaI madness...
...a temporary predjudice...
...an intermezzo in the reign of
the inteIlect...
...a crude superstition which
wiII soon coIIapse...
...amidst the raucous, derisive
Iaughter of the Orient and Asia
I have fuIfiIled my task. Do your duty,
Europe beIongs to you
(Man of History. 1923.
In th manner of Max Weber)
I am not interested in power...
...that general influence
that men of letters exert
I want authority, a concrete
Ieadership of humanity
I want to see how men react to me
...how they deIegate me, change me
I wiII want an adjutant.
Authority is sensuous
Authority is blood, authority is Iife
Authority is self-reaIization
Authority is...
...feeIing...feeIing anew
Authority is Eros,
an inexhaustibIe Eros...
...and which takes in the weak people...
...the Eros of authority, the Eros
of Ieadership, the Eros of power...
...of decay, of the body of force
I am you and you are I
I've got you, and whoever
recognizes this...
...the charismatic leader,
from wherever he comes
...from beIow...
...or from above, he wiII have the
weakest peopIe behind him
He wiIl receive a mass mandate
from the women
He wiIl get the women's vote
He wiIl have it
Authority, Eros...
...body, woman
( GoebbeIs )
F?hrer, command! We follow!
( A text by FriedeI)
Innumerable stars are wandering through
the endIess depths od the universe
Radiant thoughts of God
They are aII happy, because God
wants the worId to be happy
there is onIy one among them
who doesn't share this fortune
Has God forgotten that star?
Or has he bestowed on him
the highest gIory...
...by giving him the choice to rise
by his own strength
We don't know
We are onIy a tiny fraction in
the history of this star
(Based on The Futurist Manifesto.
ItaIy. 1909 )
We sing of the Iove of danger,
crime, action and sex
We Iove the motor-car, which is
more beautifuI than Nefertiti
We want the beauty of the struggIe,
we want aggression and war...
...soIe hygiene of the worId; bIood
and earth, madness, sun
We want to sing of anarchy for which
one dies, and scorn for woman by man
We wiII destroy the museums,
the Iibraries...
...academies of aIl kinds, as weIl
as moraIism and feminism
If prayer joins us with God
then speed is our prayer
We shaII kneel on the raiIs...
It is intoxication of speed
which involves us with the deity...
...in the destroyed cities and
houses and men...
...a vast arena after the next war
for our ceremonies of the new happiness
l greet the whole of the German
people, at the front and at home...
...in town and country
''Fight and Work'', that is our
watchword for the New Year...
...and over its portals we shall write
for our fighting and working people...
...the words of Friedrich Nietzsche.:
''You walk the paths of greatness"
That shall become your supreme
courage:
What is most gentle in you
must become the toughest
Whoever spares himself will pay
for such weakness in the end
Praise what makes you hard
( GoebbeIs, 31st December, 1942 )
(HitIer's spirit by the grave of
Richard Wagner)
It was here that the spirituaI sword
was forged which made us victorious
There was nobody eIse who couId or
wouId take the roIe I wanted
So they calIed for me
First the bourgeoisie,
then the military...
...rubbing their grubby hands
with joy...
...and aIso for the defence of
their honour
do you think I didn't notice it?
then the industriaIists, to drive out
BoIshevism...
...from whose Ieader Lenin
I Iearned a Iot...
...and whose leader StaIin
couId be secretIy admired
Then the petty bourgoisie,
the workers...
...for whom I couId achive much
And the youth, to whom I gave
a purpose...
...and the students, who needed me...
...and the intelIectuaIs...
who feIt Iiberated from the Jewish
mafia of friends and foes...
...and the foreign countries,
gIad to have caIm in Europe...
with strength and solemnity
And one has to consider for how
many peopIe...
... l gave a worthwhile content
to their lives...
I gave them what they pIaced in me...
...what they wanted to hear and to do,
ans which they didn't dare
I did it and commanded it for them...
...because it concerned aII of them,
not me...
...and Germany, yes, which I realIy
Ioved, in my own way, of course
As I aIways said, didn't I?
They hate me when I'm near, you see?
How could I, the artist...
...have conducted a war without
hatred of the Jews?
What wouId I have been without
my music and architecture...
...without my Rienzi,
the source of everything...
...without my bIindness in PasewaIk,
where I resoIved to become a politician?
Without the rejection by the
Vienna Academy...
...which Ied me on to write
Mein Kampf?
Without the coIIapse of Germany...
...without VersaiIles,
which taught me to speak?
it wouId be Munich and Landsberg,
the prison...
...with the abortive putsch
before that
Everything stiII anarchic, IawIess
And what would you be without
the persecution of the Jews...
...without the readiness for
sacrifice whichwe had to offer?
I'm not responsibIe for the decIine
in standards...
...or the limitIess crueIty
which technoIogy gave me
Yes, I am the bad consience of
the democratic government
...perverse, as they say now
I made a crueI cIean-up in
the pigsty of history...
...which secretIy aIl of them wanted,
but nobody dared
If only you knew the seIf-controI
and strength I needed for decisions
I, who who was much more vaciIlating
than
...a typicaI product of Vienna
of the turn of the century...
...how I had to make myseIf
hard and reIentIess...
...facing a task which had to be done
An Austrian civiI servant's son,
with experience of the doss-house
I know, I shaII be eIected
the greatest man of aII time...
...or perish, cursed by aIl mankind
and damned in aII eternity
Am I not the Iast in the line
of the great creators...
...who in monumentaI repression
of sex and their private Iife
...achieved their work with
no mercy to themseIves...
...like Leonardo and MicheIangeIo?
They weren't easygoing
Beethoven, Wagner...
WelI, perhaps Mozart was,
but he wasn't to my taste
Yes, just Iisten to me...
...stick it out, Iadies and gentlemen
I am a human being wth two eyes
and ears, Iike you...
...and if you prick me, do l not bIeed?
I, too. I am one of you, too
i was and l am the end of
your most secret wishes...
...the Iegend and reaIity of your dreams
We must finaIIy win through
Finality? Nightmares?
Not by a Iong shot
If l consult the goddess of history,
whom I know as none of you do
If you reject me,
you reject the masses
EternaIIy, your brother, HitIer
Therefore, l pray to the Almighty
to preserve our F?hrer...
...in good health and full vigour
and gladness in his decisions
( GoebbeIs, 30th January, 1943 )
The time must come
We dead are now awakening
But not in whitish shrouds
ln black rags we arise
We emerge from our graves
Hollow-eyed and all in shreds
You gentlemen in your parlours
Forget your laughing now
There'll be no discount given
The lives you stole from us
Have to be settled in cash now
For once be paid in full
(The CosmoIogist )
We are Iiving in a critcal moment
of time
It has been proved that the moon
comes nearer to us...
...as we can see distinctly
on days when the air is cIear
The force of gravity wiII increase
Then the waters of the ocean wiII rise
in an unabating fIood
They wiII rise and cover
big areas of Iand...
...and flood over the tropics and
surround the highest mountains
Creatures wiII be freed more and more
from the weight which presses on them
They wiII grow. The cosmic rays wiII
become stronger and stronger
They influence the genes ans the
chromosomes and create mutations
New races wilI be created,
giant pIants and giant animaIs
Giant humans
Only those giants...
...the master race...
...the Iords of the earth wiII have
the strength after the battIe...
...with the Iegendary evil dwarfs
and sub-humans...
...to stave off the threatened
destruction of the world...
...for a thousand year cuIture...
as it once was in the mythicaI
AtIantis of Plato
The new Aryan race, if you wish
Before the finaI decline of the
magical powers remaining in us
The new magicaI orders and rites
wiII be reawakened
We shaII have superhuman powers.
History as we know it wiII be aboIished
The third eye, a new viriIity
wiII grow in us
The new man stands on the threshoId
The new time. The goIden age...
...paradise, saved from the great
fIood by human strength...
...and concentration the essentiaIs
of chastisementand ceremonies
The German dream of death for
a new Iife afterwards
Away with the maIpractice of
false prophets...
...with the selfish prostitution
of our most sacred instincts...
...passions and desires from
our Iegends...
...the so-caIIed sociology
of dwarfish races
Destroy what is unworthy...
...exterminate the superstitions of
science, technology and faIse reIigions
It concerns the blood-memories of
our inner eye
The souI of our blood becomes
the worId's conscience...
...hard and merciIess...
...through us the savioursof
world and cosmos for aII time
The twilight of humanity begins with us
( A pupiI of the worId ice theory )
( A pupiI of the worId ice theory )
ln this war we must never fall into
the stupor of objectivity...
...which has brought much misfortune
on the German nation in its history
When this war started, our eyes were
solely turned towards our nation...
...everything to serve her; what is
good must be preserved and encouraged
What is bad must be eliminated
and cut off
With a burning heart and
a cool head...
...we must resolve to deal with the
problems of this period of the war
Thus we shall take the path to
our ultimate victory...
...which is founded in our belief in
the F?hrer
( GoebbeIs, SportpaIast, BerIin,
18th February, 1943 )
He expects from us an effort which will
put all previous efforts in the shade
lf we ever unwaveringly believed
in victory...
...then we must do so in this hour of
national reflection and inner uplift
We see it within touching distance;
all we have to do is grasp it
We must only summon up
the determination...
...to subordinate everything to its
service, this is the law of the hour
And that's why from now on
our password must be:
''Now people rise, and storm
break loose!'"
On the 2nd July, 1934...
... l was sent, with the best wishes
of the minesweeper commander...
...to the naval section of the
War Ministry in Berlin
I was to report there
and then report to the ChanceIlery
I traveIIed with some unease and with
mixed feelings from KieI to BerIin
At the War Ministry I was sent to
the navaI chief-of-staff
...who received me amiabIe and
introduced me to some high officers...
...including AdmiraI Reader...
...and War Minister von BIomberg
After answering various questions...
... l was ordered to report to
AdoIf HitIer the next day
Report at 10.00 to SS Oberf?hrer
and Adjutant Schaub
I got up at six, cIeaned and
brushed my best uniform...
...and was ready at eight to report
At 09.30 I arrived at WiIheImstrasse...
...waited a moment,
drew a deep breath...
...then marched to the ChanceIIery
gates
I was escorted to a courtyard
near Hitler's apartment...
...and handed over to the SS-man
on duty
He took me to the SS Escort
Commando guardroom
Two SS-men were pIaying chess
They Iooked at me rather
scepticaIly
Later a few civiIians came...
...and introductions began
When it became known that I was
to be HitIer's vaIet...
...a general discussion began and
severaI matters were considered
Some of the peopIe were
especiaIIy friendly to me
I Iearned that the F?hrer was
in East Prussia...
...visiting President
von Hindenburg...
...to give him fuIl details of
the R?hm putsch
The aircraft was due back
in BerIin at three
At Iast the airport reported:
''The F?hrer's aircraft
has just landed'"
The room sprang to Iife
AImost everyone vanished in a fIash
I asked what their duties were...
...and heard that each Iooked
after a particuIar place...
...resposibIe for security in the
drive, the street, and so on
I asked someone...
...where l couId stand to get a
good view of the F?hrer's arrivaI
Just as l went to the door...
...HitIer waIked past,
Iess than a metre fom me
I stood to attention and his deep
voice greeted me: Heil!
After haIf an hour, Adjutant Schaub
came in and said to me...
...the F?hrer was too busy to see
me, l should report tomorrow
I stayed in the guardroom for a bit...
...and got to know nearIy everyone...
...including Kempe, who Iater
became HitIer's driver...
...who was very friendIy and
invited me to his quarters
Kempe had a smaIl car
at his disposal...
...and that evening we went on
a tour of BerIin
Two other SS-men came with us...
I caIIed a haIt at midnight, as
I had to be wide awake next morning
So Kempe drove me back to my quarters
in the barracks
It had been a heavy day...
...though l'd not reached my goal
SeveraI more days passed
On the fifth day, SA Gruppenf?hrer
Br?ckner came and said:
''Where's that water-rat?
The F?hrer is waiting for him'"
Br?ckner took me upstairs to the
private rooms of the F?hrer
...asked me to enter,
and stayed outside
Now l was standing aIone in the doorway
The room before me was fiIIed with
a soft, subdued Iight
Behind a Iong tabIe, covered with
papers, books and other things...
...and iIIuminated by a standard Iamp
which cast its Iight in a pooI...
...stood, his arms foIded, Adolf HitIer
I reported to him:
''Seaman First-CIass KarI-WiIheIm
Krause, First Minesweeper FlotiIIa!"
During this, HitIer came up to me
and greeted me with a handshake
He asked if I knew the reason
I was there
I said yes
He asked about my background and
whether l'd Iike to enter his service
He asked me, if l was a member of
the National SociaIist Party...
...but before I couId say no,
he gave the answer himself:
''The navy is not permitted any
poIiticaI activity. Just as weIl"
They had prepared the room for me in
the ChanceIIery and HitIer inspected it
In his presence l had to test the bed
for length, as l'm taIl...
...and than I received two Iight-
coIoured Iounge suits and a dark one
Then, when Hitler was in the garden
with some guests, I was ordered to him
It was just a week earlier, as
one of the SS Escorts toId me...
...that Hitler had suddenIy got up
from a simiIar gathering...
...and gave by telephone the order
to shoot the SA leader R?hm
WelI, then, now I stood before him
He took two garden chairs;
he decIined my heIp, saying:
''No, Ieave that to me. You wiII
have to do this often enough.''
He placed the chairs in the middIe of
the garden, facing each other
Then he toId me to sit down;
I sat exactly opposite to him
He said:
''You are a saiIor and I shalI not
put you on oath, I reIy on you.
''What you observe here concerns no
one. You are responsibIe onIy to me."
''You may receive orders through
my adjutant.
''Apart from that, nobody has the right
to give you orders."
I was then responsibIe for Hitler's
personaI things: his cIothing...
...later for his meaIs; I don't mean
the cooking but the serving
The Berlin househoId was run by Herr
Kannenberg and his wife
In Munich there was Frau Winter...
...and on the Obersalzberg, firstly
HitIer's sister, Frau RaubaI
The daiIy routine in BerIin...
...remained unchanged in the first
year; untiI 1937, that is
Before retiring...
...to his realIy private rooms
on the first fIoor...
...HitIer aIways toId me
when to wake him
''I shaII get up at nine-thirty...
''...but the newspapers must be
outside the door by eight''
Often a handshake
In the first year, waking was
aIways at nine-thirty
I answered: "I wish you
a restfuI night."
He always Iocked himseIf in
His rooms on the first fIoor
of the ChanceIIery...
...consisted of a private study
with a library...
...his bedroom and the bath
In the first year, waking was
newspapers and messages...
...were placed on a stooI outside
the door by the duty SS-man
Later that became my task;
then the SS-man...
...woke me, gave me the messages
and newspapers...
...which I pIaced on the stooI
HitIer onIy put his hand outside...
...the door bareIy opened and
he groped for the papers
The stool had to be in the
right pIace
In the first years, there was
no beIl connecting us
I had to go to his bedroom
and knock
Then say: ''Good morning, F?hrer,
it is nine-thirty", for example
When the beII was put in, I had
to press the button three times...
...to ring the belI at the
head of his bed
Then he pressed the button on
his bedside table three times
Only then did I knock an the door
and teII him the time of day
He answered "Thanks", "Thank you'',
or "Thank you very much"
From that I'd guess his mood
RareIy did he express any
speciaI wish
After waking him, I went to
the kitchen...
...and prepared his breakfast
Only the miIk was heated by
the duty cook
Breakfast was always the same:
two cups of warm milk...
...as many as ten Leibnitz biscuits...
...and a haIf bar of bitter
chocoIate, broken up
The milk was kept warm with
a coffee-heater
If he had been awakened at
nine-thirty...
...the beIl wouId ring at
09.52 or 09.53
I carried the tray to his bedroom
and from there to the Iibrary
He opened the bedroom door
It was up to me to open the
other doors
Since being awakened...
...HitIer had bathed, shaved
and dressed
He rang the beIl when he
put on his jacket
Whatever time he was awakened...
...his toiIet aIways took about
twenty minutes
He shaved hemself,
using two razors...
...the second for a final shave
New bIades daiIy, so he required
two bIades a day
He used Hobby-horse LiIies'-miIk
soap, Pieri shaving-cream...
...Arrow-ring skin-cream and
Birch-water hair tonic
He tried another brand, but
went back to Birch-water
He used Pine-needIe bath cubes
With breakfast, I usuaIIy spoke
first; sometimes he did
I said: "Morning, F?hrer.''
If he was in a bad mood,
I just said: ''Morning.'"
then his repIy was: "Good morning'",
or onIy "HeiI'"
I repIied: '"Heil",
without adding anything
He breakfasted standing
in the library...
...gIancing through the latest
German news agency reports...
...which I took in with
the breakfast
I took the opportunity to submit
the menu for luncheon
The first course was always
the dish for his guests
Then the vegetarian courses...
...from which he wouId make
a seIection for himseIf
Sometimes he'd request something
different, Iike poached eggs
Regarding the dish for his guests,
he would ask:
''Does the dessert come after that?''
Breakfast Iasted three to five minutes
Then HitIer went to his officiaI
study in the ChancelIery
In the first years, we had coffee
at the HoteI Kaiserhof at four-thirty
A few security men waIked across
the WiIhelmpIatz to the hoteI
HitIer, with one or two of his aides
and l drove to a side entrance...
...where the manager and the security
men were waiting to escort us
There was aIways a corner tabIe
reserved for us
G?ring or GoebbeIs usualIy attended,
but rareIy together
The meetings Iasted untiI about seven,
then we went back to the ChanceIIery...
...where everything was being prepared
for the evening meaI
During the first years, many actors
and opera singers were invited
The dinner itsseIf was quite informal
During the meal, l submitted a Iist
of up to haIf a dozen fiIms...
...which couId be shown on
that evening; German and foreign films
HitIer then decided which fiIms
shouId be screened on that evening
After dinner and a quick cup of
coffee in the smoking room...
...the music room was converted for
the fiIm show
The equipment was exactly the same as
in a pubIic cinema
Films were suppIied by the Propaganda
Ministry and fiIm distributors
As many as three fiIms were shown
per evening
If HitIer didn't Iike one, another
has to be substituted immediateIy
He broke off the projection saying:
''Stop! Utter rubbish! Next, please'"
Until the war, HitIer viewed every
German and foriegn film...
...and eventhose films which
the Propaganda Ministry...
...had not yet passedfor pubIic
showing
HitIer himseIf then made the decision
But during the war HitIer
Iooked at nothing but newsreeIs
The newsreels were shown silent
whiIe an adjutant read out the text...
...and Hitler decided on the words;
often he changed them
From 1942 onwards, Hitler didn't even
Iook at the newsreeIs
But he stiII Iistened to records of
Franz Lehar and Johann Strauss
For exampIe: The Merry Widow
or Die Fledermaus
After the projection, towards midnight,
they returned to the smoking room...
...where the orderIies had arranged
a cosy coffee corner in the meantime
Everybody sat down quite informaIIy
and liveIy discussions started
AII sorts of aIcohoIic drinks, coffee,
cakes and sandwiches were served
here guests even smoked, but not
in his immediate vicinity
Every subject under the sun was
discussed, except poIitics
Even Iadie's fashions
One couId see that HitIer was reaIIy
a very genial host
I heard this not onIy from German
visitors, but from foreign guests
I was usuaIly present and couId hear
and see everything...
...because I was onIy one or two
metres away from HitIer's tabIe
It usuaIly didn't break up untiI
two or three in the morning
After the guests had gone,
I Iaid out the latest evening papers...
...and the News Agency buIIetins,
which HitIer studied cIoseIy
In the meantime a cup of vaIerian
tea and a smaIl bottIe of brandy...
...were placed, by me, on his
bedside tabIe
After HitIer had read the papers and
Iatest news, he went to his rooms above
His daily routine remained the same
until 1938
Until then, we never spent Sunday in
BerIin, we went to the ObersaIzberg
We want to see our F?hrer!
( Count Ciano's visit to BerIin to sign
the German-ItaIian Axis Pact. 1 936 )
We are still overwhelmed by the
scene on Wilhelmplatz
From thousands of voices...
...the Deutschlandlied
rose towards heaven
This song became a solemn vow...
...confirming the action of those
who have brought about this alliance
and now thousands of eyes are turning...
...from the Wilhelmplatz
and from the sidestreets...
...across to the Reichs Chancellery,
to the door of that balcony
(Radio Iinkup with alI war fronts,
24th December, 1942 )
This is StaIingrad, here is the
VoIga front
CaIIing the Lapland front
We are in the barracks in
the Finish forest
Southern France, our air forces
This is a miIitary airfieId
in southern France
on Christmas Eve, 1937,
HitIer had a suprise for me
He was at his Munich apartment,
Prinzregentenstrasse 16
I was invited to a famiIy celebration...
...and waited impatiently for HitIer
to reIease me for the evening
But he returned to the room
where the gifts were laid out...
...to choose one more present
We then packed it together,
squatting on the carpet
As he heId a knot, for a joke I
wound the stringround his thumb
And in return, Iaughing...
...he tapped me in fun on the back of
the neck with his Ieft hand
He toId me to deliver the package,
but first to Iay out his dinner jacket
When I Iooked at him increduIousIy
he said: "Yes, my dinner jacket''
CaIIing Crete once more
CaIIing the BIack Sea ports
This is the Black Sea port
on Crimean peninsuIa
We ask comrades to join us in the
beautifuI Christmas caroI:
SiIent night, hoIy night
He asked me to doubIe-check
aII the preparations...
...the brewing of the punch...
...and that nobody was standing
outside the door, as usuaI...
...and that onIy one Munich policeman
was on duty outside the house
When he said that,
we went quietIy downstairs
We realIy hurried Iike thieves through
the house to a waiting taxi
Nobody had noticed us,
which pleased Hitler very much
I was about to take my pIace
next to the driver...
...when HitIer puIled me onto the
back seat, on his right-hand side
He whispered to me some destinations,
which I passed on to the driver
So we crossed and recrossed Munich
that Christmas Eve...
...travelIing from one pIace
to the other...
...ending up at the LuitpoId Caf?
Rather surprised, l wondered
what he wanted there at that hour
The taxi driver must have been
puzzIed, he didn't know his passenger
He was visibIy reIieved when we paid
him off at the LuitpoId Caf?
The moment he had the money in his
hand, he drove off at top speed
He must have thought we were
a coupIe of madmen
Perhaps he wasn't quite wrong,
because l found in uncanny, too
Then without going into the Caf?, we
waIked back to the K?nigIicher PIatz
As I feIt responsibIe for his security,
I turned occasionalIy...
...which made him remark:
''Come, come waIk beside me. You
needn't be afraid because of me.
''Nobody would beIieve that AdoIf
HitIer strolIed about Munich aIone."
Whenever someone passed, he onIy
Iowered his head or Iooked aside
And, reaIly, no one did recognize
him...
...we reached our flat in the
Prinzregentenstrasse
On our way, icy sIeet began to falI
He had onIy supported himseIf on
my shouIder before...
...but finaIIy we waIked arm in arm,
as he wore new patent-Ieather shoes
WelI, somebody must have noticed
something
HimmIer and Rattenhuber who were
in charge of the Escort Commando...
...reproached me the next day because
I had not informed anybody
And Himmler gave me orders
that in future...
...even if Hitler forbade me, I must
report these things to the Escort
But I never obeyed this order
from HimmIer, the Reichsf?hrer SS
This is Radio Moscow
broadcasting in German
The first month of the New Year 1943...
...ended with the crushing of the
Hitlerite forces...
...which were encircled in the
western-central district of Stalingrad
Commanding Vice-Field Marshal
of the German army, Paulus...
...his entire staff and a further
fifteen generals surrendered
Astronomers of the University of
CaIifornia in BerkeIey...
...disovered a gaIaxy which is
the furthest away from us
This enormous system consisting of
over one thousand suns...
...is at a distance of eight miIIiard
Iight years
The Iight which reaches us from there...
...was sent on its journey to us...
...at a time when our sun and its
pIanets did not even exist
3 C 123 appears on photographs...
...as a blurred IittIe spot
of irreguIar shape
...that presumabIy represents other
gaIaxies of the same group
The interpretation of the spectoscopic
data brought a surprise:
That object shows the greatest
dispIacement of red of the spectrum...
...which was ever observed in any
gaIaxy
Therefore, 3 C 123...
Iight away from us...
...and is five to ten times bigger
than our own MiIky Way
In the opinion of Professor Dr.
Horst L?b of Giessen...
...6% of aII suns in the universe...
...are circIed by pIanets which could
be inhabited by some Iiving beings
This estimated percentage
appears relativeIy smaII...
...but the number of inhabited heavenIy
bodies wouId stiIl be enormous...
...because there are, roughIy
estimated, 100 miIliard MiIky Ways...
...which consist of about fifty
miIliard stars each
If one considers the concept of
the infinity of the universe...
...to its logicaI concIusion...
...one arrives at unreaIity...
...because infinity is nothing but a
mathematicaI expression of unreaIity
If one tries to imagine
that the MiIky Way...
...consists of more than a miIIiard
fixed stars...
...many with a diameter greater than
the distance between earth and sun...
...and that it does not represent
the fixed poIe of the cosmos...
...but races at a speed of
six hundred kiIometres per second...
...a thousand times faster than a sheII,
to some pIace or other...
...then the assumption that alI this...
...could have anything to do with
reality is reduced to a mere fantasy
The picture becomes even more unreaI
if one foIIows the Iatest conjecture.. .
...that the sum of aII conglomerations
of stars...
...forms a cIose finite system...
...in the shape of a rotation-
eIIipsoid...
...then one cannot disregardthe idea...
...that it is nothing but
one of the moIecuIes...
...from which greater bodies are
constructed
The universe as a molecuIe
The molecuIe as an universe
What did Stifter write about the Jew
Abdias and his blind daughter Ditha?
''If there are humans upon whom such
a haiI of disasters faIIs...
''...that they finaIly just stand...
''...and Iet the haiI beat down
onto them...
''...then there must be peopIe and stars,
ar at Ieast whoIe continents...
''...which are pIagued by misfortunes
with such persistence...
''...that it seems that aIl the Iawsof
nature have been reversed...
''...in order to bring caIamity
to them alone.
''In that way, the ancients arrived
at the concept of fate."
And we to that of destiny...
...for which some dirty their trousers
in eagerness to grab at their fate...
...and burn their fingers
If aIl goes weIl, it's valiant.
But mostIy it ends miserabIy
Faced with fate, it sometimes seems
to us...
Iike an invisibIe arm reaching out
from the cIouds...
...and using us in incomprehensibIe
ways, for which we then bear the guiIt.
End of Part 2
''A GERMAN DREAM'"