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120If Hitler had not taken himself so seriously he wouldhave been a pathetic sight. But while the gigantic dynamoson the Ruhr electrified Germany he went on with his plansof party building.“A maniac,” his foes smiled and left Him alone. Hitlercould no longer gratify his ambition to see himself malignedin every morning‟s paper. The newspapers took no noticeof him. The consensus of opinion was that an unemployedcarpenter whom a turn of fortune had placed into the limelightfor one night could not do better than try his hands onbringing back the past. Life had re-enacted the story ofthe beggar kidnapped by the king‟s halbardiers who foundhimself on a silk throne for one day. The beggar was againin the gutter but he did not know it, because his mind was obsessedwith the glory of one day.In the Autumn of 1925 Hanover witnessed a battle royal.“We will not be governed by the Munich Pope,” an anti-Hitlerite shouted at the party congress. Hitler had stayedaway from the battle and commissioned Gottfried Feder,the party apostle and lawgiver, to take up the cudgels on hisbehalf. Feder was popular with the majority because it understoodlittle of what he said and therefore reached theconclusion that he must be a profound thinker. It is unlikelythat Hitler sent Feder to Hanover – as has been suggested– with the devilish idea of putting the delegates tosleep, and so prevent their rebellion. But Hitler made nomistake in sending the man to the congress whose commonplacetheories the other delegates had accepted as the infallibleparty dogma.