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CHAPTER XV.T H U R S D A Y A N D F R I D A YRIVY COUNCILLOR HUGENBERG asks Herr Hit-for an appointment.” PlerWhen Privy Councillor Hugenberg wants an appointmenthe usually gets it. He and Hitler marched togetherat the end of 1929 against the Young Plan. Theywere the leaders of the referendum for the dissolution of thePrussian Diet in 1931. At Bad Harzburg they shook handswarmly and there were tears in eyes of steely blue. This wasthe beginning of a crusade against the spirit of revolution.Marxism was the enemy; how could it survive this holy alliance?The constellation of the stars indicated an 18th ofBrumaire, but who was going to be the German Napoleon andwho the Abbé Sieyès?Hugenberg is Hitler‟s Man Thursday and Friday, hisfriend and his enemy, his yes man and his no man. From aworld uninitiated into the mental processes of the arch-Junker, Hugenberg has not received sufficient credit forHitler‟s rise. The historian of another day, if he remembersthe Nazi and Nationalist chieftains, will have to point outthat without Hugenberg‟s assistance, Hitler‟s spectacular successat the polls could not have been imagined.