My struggle / Adolf Hitler.

  • Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
Date:
1935
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Credit: My struggle / Adolf Hitler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    period of Soldiers’ Councils. It was only by degrees and cautiously that the transition from obedience “by consent”—the pretty way they described the pigsty under Kurt Eisner—over to military discipline and subordination could be effected. In the same way the troops had to learn to feel and think of themselves as members of the nation and the Fatherland. My new activities lay in this direction. I started them full of love and keenness. I may claim some success ; in the course of my addresses I won hundreds, nay, thousands, of my com¬ rades back to their nation and Fatherland. I “nation¬ alized” the troops and was able so to help generally to strengthen discipline. Moreover, I made the acquaintance of a number of comrades who thought as I did and who joined me later on inlaying the foundations of the new Movement. G