hitler

13time by the forelock. Perhaps he would learn how to graspthe skirts of happy chance. He was beginning to have hisconvictions: first impressions sealed with prejudice.He read the Neue Freie Presse and the Wiener Tagblatt,organs of high capitalism, with a great deal of defiance.While they expressed his sentiments on a variety ofsubjects, they did so in a politely mocking vein which he disliked.He found their arguments weak and vacillating. Obviously,the editors gave too much thought to the reasoningsof their opponents. Frederick the Great would have disposedof socialistic arguments in a different way.“The editors are Jews,” someone told Hitler. “The Socialistleaders, too, are Jews.” It was an anti-Semite who saidthis, – a Christian Socialist, an admirer of Karl Lueger.The city administration of Vienna encouraged anti-semitism.Karl Lueger, the Burgomaster, clever, efficient andfanatically anti-Jewish, was the idol of the Christian Socialists.The Jews were to be blamed for everything, he declared, andthe crowd shouted hurrah. The Jews were the ringleaders'of both socialism and capitalism. The explanation wassimple and it found favour in Hitler‟s eyes. He began to readanti-semitic papers and the literature of the Christian Socialists.No doubt, he thought, the Jews were part of a conspiracyto ruin the Christian world for their own benefit. Socialistsand Jews were in league, while the Nordic race bore thebrunt of social inequality. While carrying the rubbish to thedump heap, Hitler saw himself an Aryan god, tall and blond,his eyes sparkling with indignation. Then he slipped and aspadeful of dirt landed on a man‟s head one floor below.