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first task was to unite them behind him, and to prepare them for any sacrifice that might be
necessary. This task was accomplished through a combination of propaganda and terror,
and through an economic policy based upon German rearmament, which solved the problem
of unemployment. Rearmament led on automatically to the second goal, a war which Hitler
believed to be inevitable. Hitler wanted war in order to make Germany great once more, and
found an Empire which would contain all Germans within its borders: he would then expand
to the East and secure lebensraum for his people, which would enable the Germans to
exploit natural economic resources and cheap slave-labour, and make the Third Reich the
most powerful Empire that the world had ever known.
This, however, was only the half-way stage. The Third Reich would not be just another
empire: it would be an entirely new kind of civilisation, with new values and new men. The
Jews, polluters of the blood, would be exterminated. Other inferior races would be used as
slaves. Germans would enjoy unprecedented material comforts in exchange for the
surrender of all freedom in uncritical allegiance to National Socialism. Above the ordinary
Germans would be the hierarchy of Party members, and above them, the Nazi elite. From
the finest of their youth would be bred the heroes and demi-gods who would come to
bestride the Earth.
Thus would the way be cleared for what, according to Dr Achille Delmas, was Hitler's
ultimate aim:
& to perform an act of creation, a divine operation, the goal of a biological mutation which
would result in an unprecedented exaltation of the human race and the "apparition of a new
race of heroes and demi-gods and god-men". 5
Such were the dreams of the mystic from the Vienna gutter who had risen to control the
destiny of a great European nation. As he so aptly remarked: What luck for the rulers that
men do not think,' and as Baldur von Schirach exclaimed on behalf of the Germans, with
equal aptness: We simply believed.' The Germans never asked Hitler where he was leading
them just as long as he was leading: they gave away their freedom, and were afterwards
amazed when the victorious allies raised questions of responsibility. For them it was
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sufficient to be part of an ecstatic crowd at a torchlit rally and experience the Führer's
proclamation of the nation's innermost hopes, dreams and dreads. In the words of the
American writer, William Shirer, who witnessed this all through the 1930s:
Today, as far as the vast majority of his fellow countrymen are concerned, he has reached a
pinnacle never before achieved by a German ruler. He has become - even before his death -
a myth, a legend, almost a god, with that quality of divinity which the Japanese people
ascribe to their Emperor. 6
One does not know what is more extraordinary: the bewitchment of the German nation; the
phenomenon of Hitler himself; or the inability of most to recognise the sources of the
Führer's powers. Yet the signs are plain for all to see in the work of historians of
unimpeachable integrity like Alan Bullock and Hugh Trevor-Roper. Until the last days of his
life,' writes Bullock, he retained an uncanny gift of personal magnetism which defies
analysis, but which many who met him have described ... This was connected with the
curious powers of his eyes, which are persistently said to have some sort of hypnotic
quality.'' Professor Trevor-Roper concurs: Hitler had the eyes of a hypnotist which seduced
the wits and affections of all who yielded to their power." One does not acquire such power
by accident! Someone who believes that, will believe anything. One acquires it by patient
training. Hence the above descriptions are ludicrous if applied to Mussolini or Stalin, but
perfect if applied to men such as Rasputin, Gurdjieff or Crowley, with whom, we insist again,
Hitler must be classed: all four men possessed to a remarkable degree this intense personal
magnetism, which, in all four cases, was associated with their hypnotic' eyes.
One has to be inflexibly dogmatic and unscientific to deny the proposition that the human
brain is capable of doing extraordinary things, in face of all the evidence, and indeed, the
current intellectual fashion is to accept the existence of ESP powers as long as we can talk
about them in terms of the brain or the unconscious. As long as our terms are sufficiently
modern', we are on safe ground: yoga we can label Psychocybernetics, and magic, Applied
Mind Dynamics, and this almost makes them respectable. Unfortunately, in considering
Adolf Hitler, we are also forced to consider the possibility that the world of spirits and
demons may have some objective existence, or at least, that Hitler thought it did. Time and
time again we come upon the phrase used to describe him, the unconscious tool of higher
powers'. We may add to the testimony of witnesses we have quoted earlier the words of the
French Ambassador, Francois-Poncet; He entered into a sort of mediumistic trance; the
expression of his face was ecstatic,'9 and of another Frenchman, Bouchez:
I looked into his eyes - the eyes of a medium in a trance ... Sometimes there seemed to be
a sort of ectoplasm; the speaker's body seemed to be inhabited by something ... Afterwards
he shrank again to insignificance, looking small and even vulgar. He seemed exhausted, his
batteries run down. 10
Finally, Hermann Rauschning relates a curious tale, which reminds one of the Unknown
Supermen of Mathers and Crowley:
A person close to Hitler told me that he wakes up in the night screaming and in convulsions.
He calls for help, and appears to be half paralysed. He is seized with a panic that makes him
tremble until the bed shakes. He utters confused and unintelligible sounds, gasping, as if on
the point of suffocation. The same person described to me one of these fits, with details that
I would refuse to believe had I not complete confidence in my informant.
Hitler was standing up in his room, swaying, and looking all round him as if he were lost. "It's
he, it's he," he groaned; "he's come for me!" His lips were white; he was sweating profusely.
Suddenly he uttered a string of meaningless figures, then words and scraps of sentences. It
was terrifying. He used strange expressions strung together in bizarre disorder. Then he
relapsed again into silence, but his lips still continued to move. He was then given a friction
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