Quotes from Peter Longerich

Besatzungszonen unter Kontrolle zu bekommen,

dass Stahlhelm und

As a supporter of a 'German Socialism', Strasser advocated views different from those of Hitler, particularly on social and economic issues. He demanded the 'nationalization' of land and of the means of production, and within the NSDAP represented a decidedly anti-capitalist stance.

entry into the old imperial castle of Prague, the Hradschin. He described it as follows: 'The Führer went into a barely furnished room, turned to your father, and embraced him, delighted that it had been granted to him to

amelioration." The diary entry is a remarkable indication that

Hanisch, der mehr Bilder

He was not one of those Nazi supporters who were attracted by the 'Führer's' charisma; instead, he became politically involved primarily in the context of the general preparations for a putsch that were being carried out by right-wing paramilitary organizations in the years 1922/3. If he had a political hero at this time it was Röhm, not Hitler.

Germanic mythology, reinforced by all sorts of occult ideas, evidently became for him a kind of substitute religion.