Der Fuehrer - Hitler's Rise to Power (1944) - Heiden

256 DER FUEHRER... In the woman emotion dominates and rightly tells her that the futureof our children is at stake. . . . Our adversaries may talk as much as theylike about our hysterical women. In former days woman broughtChristianity to the countries. In the end she will also lead our movementto lasting victory.'And again: Be simple! Be simple above all in the formulation of youraims. Do not set up three, four, or five aims at once — this was a sideblow at Ludendorff, who had unnecessarily involved himself in astruggle with the Catholic Church. Yes, the Church is an enemy; in hisheart Hitler knows this perfectly well, but he reserves this enemy forlater. First look at people and then look at the mass: 'Every individualhas certain views, certain abilities, a certain temperament, a certaincharacter; every individual particularly loves certain things and dislikescertain others. It is, therefore, very hard to set up a common goal for tenthousand people. But it is even harder to set up a goal for these tenthousand, which consists of sixteen or twenty individual aims.' AgainHitler takes the enemy as a model. He describes the tactics of the Alliesin the World War. Did they cry: We are fighting first against Germany,second against Austria, third against Bulgaria, and fourth againstTurkey, and so on, and so on? No: they had concentrated their wholehatred and propaganda on one thing, yes, on one person: Germanmilitarism and the German Kaiser: 'Whether they fought inMesopotamia or in Russia, in France, in Serbia, or elsewhere, it was allthe same: against the Kaiser and against militarism. Thus they broughttwenty-six states to the front against Germany, and every Englishmanfelt that he could not be wrong if twenty-six nations fought with himagainst the one.' In Germany it had been just the opposite — fatally so:'In our country the little man wondered: Can we be right if twenty-sixstand against us? Can all twenty-six be wrong, and we alone right?'No, the more aims were set up, the more the confidence or faith in theindividual sinks. 'And if you have twenty aims that are supposed to befought for, perhaps only five people will remain who are in agreementwith all twenty.'With this speech Hitler gave birth to his theory that in propaganda thesame thing must be repeated indefatigably. Later he