So, who organized the February and October Revolution in Russia and the November Revolution in Germany?

 

Almost all my books are dedicated to inquiry into this matter. There are loads of proof there1. It is absolutely impossible to repeat all of it in the research related to mysteries of Adolf Hitler coming to power. Let the Reader refer to the books already published, and let me only repeat the conclusion that matters for our research of causes and reasons of World War II.

 

Revolutions in Germany and Russia were organized by the British Intelligence Service at adequate support of the USA and France. Theaim of the World Slaughter I was to play off one great country against the other and to later unleash revolutions in both of them, thus destroying these countries2. All possible political parties were used to reach this goal. In Russia these were SRs, Kadets, Menshiviks and Bolsheviks; in Germany that were ace- deuce social democrats. However, it didn’t went smoothly for the British Intelligence Service. If Germany had its own “bloody dog” Noske, in Russia murdering of political competitors was firmly undertaken by Bolsheviks. Having been delivered to Russia by the British Intelligence Service in a sealed wagon as agreed with German security services, they didn’t want to get away from the political arena. Having turned out to be gifted and merciless organizers, Bolsheviks won the Civil war and got out of control of British curators.

 

When dust from crushing of the great Russian Empire settled down, the surprised British saw something impossible. Instead of a huge but predict-able Royal Empire there was a smaller but absolutely unpredictable new country, the USSR. It was headed by people, who were personally aware of how revolutions had been made and who thus were worthy competitors in political struggle.

 

However, the Soviet Union wasn’t dangerous because of its new ideol-ogy. At least, its mottos, “-isms” and configurations of regimes were only

 

Refer to Starikov, N. 1917. Not revolution, but a special operation! 1917. Who murdered Russia?; Betrayed Russia. Our “allies” from Boris Godunov to Nicolas II; From Decembrists to Mujahidins. Who fed our revolutionaries?

Refer to Starikov, N. 1917. Not the revolution, but the special operation! M., 2007.

 

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means for reaching the intended goal, not the goal itself. That is why Bol-sheviks, who collapsed Russia, had to continue politics of their incoronated predecessors, when they came to power. They quickly got almost all the lands lost back, though, it was made in the name of Marxism at that time. However, the true reason was not the ideological triumph of the bearded man from London, but logics of geopolitical opposition and protection of the country’s interests1.

 

When we say that Great Britain used revolution as a weapon to destruct its geopolitical rivals, it must be understood that Britain and the USA had been kind of a single whole for a long time. Once Brits were in the lead, but since 1945 Americans took up the reins. There were certain disagree-ments between them, of course. But disagreements between the Anglo-Saxon were absolutely minor, if compared to their monolithic solidarity in matters of grabbing global resources. That is why not only the British but the American Intelligence Service as well participated in crushing of their geopolitical competitors2.

 

There was also a place for the French in this block of “progressive mankind”. Differently speaking, the so-called Western world was getting more and more close-knit in regard to pursuing of common objectives since Napoleon Bonaparte had been defeated. One of the objectives was to destroy all dangerous rivals, such as Russia and then Germany, who prevented them from using global resources. And “the imaginative disagreements” started, when it was necessary to determine shares of goods due to each of the parties. However, such disagreements had no effect on solidarity of Western democracies. Mind, this is how historians

 

 

For 37 years Carl Marx lived in London. That is where he wrote his “Capital” and where he is buried. And the First Communistic International was established in this city. It was not by accident. For about 200 years all anti-Russian forces find shelter with this city. Simply remember the most recent events of contemporary Russian history to see how fair this statement is.

 

Despite obvious domination of the USA in the late XX — early XXI century, the British Intelligence Service MI6 still was the most powerful in the global arena. Famous movie character James Bond worked for this Service, not for CIA. Even our “freedom fighters”, involved into something very alike espionage, were leaving for London, not for Berlin or Geneva, for some reason.

 

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call the sworn friendship of Britain, France and the USA in the period between two World Wars1.

Yet, only two latter states are called republics, whereas Great Britain is constitutional monarchy. That difference of political regimes makes us comprehend that comparing countries basing on the method of manage-ment is rather conventional, at the first place, and that these states weren’t united by some “global human values” or “struggle for human rights”, but something deeper and permanent, which was the self-interest, at the second place.

 

Now, let’s consider the situation in the Earth in early 20-ies of the

 

century. Immeasurable wealth of Russia is well-known. Even without any geological investigations it can be assumed that 1/6th of land can hardly contain only sand, clay and pebble stones. The powerful Russian Empire was located on vast lands. As any other country or empire Russia had a lot of problems, conditioned by its history, geography and ethnic composition. The British Intelligence Service was aiming at every point of tenderness of its rival. However, Russia didn’t collapse in a moment, and subversive activities against it took months and even years. The work took a lot of time, about 100 years, and it was methodical, hasteless and long-term. It started right after Napoleon Bonaparte had been defeated, as Russia became the most powerful empire in the European continent then. This work finished with the February and the October Revolutions and the Civil War.

 

This is how the Russian Empire was finally crushed. However, politi-cal struggle is as endless as politics itself. And as soon as the USSR appeared in the map, the attempts to crush it started. After it was finally managed in 1991, the subversive activities against the Russian Federation started. Let’s not flatter ourselves. Until we become as small as Monaco or Luxemburg, they will still wish to weaken us and to divide us into pieces despite our political regime and its “democratism” or “openness”. The scope of investment also provesthat. In 2007 the USA invested 43 billion dollars into activities of their

 

After World War II “progressive mankind” took Italy and Germany under its wing. Though, to get there these countries had to sacrifice some of their foreign policy sovereignty. And occupation troops of the winners still remained in German lands, and that weren’t only American troops. A patrol of the French Military Gendarmerie could be met somewhere in the German wilderness.

 

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Intelligence Service. In 1996 the amount was 26 billion dollars1. The amounts spent by Great Britain are strictly confidential2.

 

The Anglo-Saxon organized the revolution in Russia not only because they wished to strike their opponent. They also wished to manage all values that would become “nobody’s”. However, things turned out to be very differ-ent. Bolsheviks led by Lenin surprised everyone, and even themselves, and managed to assemble Russia anew. When the founder of the Soviet state died in 1924, everything was rather fragile yet. Economy should have been built anew. And that was when struggle of two ideas, two personalities and two philosophy systems for the country’s development ran high in the USSR. Over the coffin of the dead Ilyitch Stalin and Trotsky came to grips, fighting for leading the VKPb (the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks), for the right to move the party and the country wherever each of them needed. We won’t describe biographies of these Communist leaders in detail, and won’t tell about all the peripeteias of the intraparty struggle in the Soviet Union, as thousands of books were written about it. We only have to understand the essence of the encounter and dates of key events related to it. In fact, it was this encounter, taking place in offices of the Kremlin and far away from Munich, which might have played the crucial part in fate of the unheard of Adolf Hitler, a Gefreiter of the German army…

 

If all the stump oratory of party leaders was narrowed down to simple and comprehendible phrases, the essence of the encounter would be as follows. Trotsky considered that revolution in Russia wasn’t the aim, but was a way to start a revolution fire in more mature countries, which in the end should have lead to the global victory of Communism. Stalin considered that Bolsheviks’ victory in Russia was so unique that it was valuable on its own, and it was necessary not to export the revolution further, but to start building Socialism in the country relived from bur-den of Capital.

 

“Struggle for the party” began around this ideological core. Trotsky announced that “construction of the independent socialistic society wasn’t possible in any country of the world” and thus called to start external revo-

 

Echo Moskvy, radio broadcasting, October 30, 2007.

 

To read about stages of subversive activities of the British Intelligence Service in Russia refer to Starikov, N. From Decembrists to Mujahidins. SPb., 2008.

 

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lution war. “The socialistic revolution, — he wrote, — starts in the national arena, develops into the international one and finishes in the global one. Thus, the social revolution becomes permanent in a new and wider mean-ing. It can’t end until the new society finally triumphs all over the planet”.

 

Leon Davydovitch Trotsky was going to do “the global revolution” further, as Western security services ordered him to. This meant he was ready to sacrifice millions of Russian men to foreign interests

 

Stalin and his followers objected to that and accused the author of the permanent revolution theory of oppositionism and of attempts to divide the party. “We can and must built socialism in the USSR. However, to build socialism it is necessary to exist in the first place. It is necessary to take a break from war, to prevent intervention attempts, to win a minimum of international conditions…”1

Trotsky applied his entire gift of oratory and polemics to outmatch his less eloquent rival. At that period Stalin and Trotsky spoke a lot to convict each other. Having expressed their arguments, they started to crack each other down. The most dreadful weapons applied were quotes from Lenin, whose works could provide anything at all, which is well-known. There is no point in providing all arguments used by the opponents, as these were

 

Stalin, J. V. Collected edition. M., 1953. V. 9. P. 25.

 

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rather dull and could take even the most interested reader to the land of Morpheus. Let’s find out some more interesting things. What was going on at the top of the Soviet party? What was there behind the theoretical (prima facie) argument of Stalin and Trotsky?

Historians are trying to find some grains of sense in tons of verbal shells of Marxist kind, which the opponents produced during this discussion. However, the truth is somewhere else. It is in the biography of Stalin and Trotsky, in history of our revolution and its origin. It is even with where the opponents had been before the Russian Empire crushed and in how they appeared at the top of the Bolsheviks’ party.

During the February revolution Joseph Stalin stayed exiled to Siberia. As he needed to get to the boiling Petrograd, he simply took a train after he had been amnestied by the Temporary Government and came to the capital of Russia. Then the hot-tempered Georgian became a true follower of Lenin and obediently fulfilled all instructions of the Leader. Stalin was rather indirectly involved into organization of the October revolution1. And he had nothing to do with opaque financial support provided to the Bolsheviks’ party…

 

It was all the difference of the world with Trotsky. When the February revolution happened, he was in faraway America, where he was doing noth-ing, according to his story. Trotsky was a revolutionary by profession. By all accounts, he was a highly-paid worker, because he had 10 thousand dollars in his pocket, when he was leaving for his Motherland. Now after quiet devalu-ation of fazool this amount may seem laughable. But in the beginning of the century the American currency was no match to what it is nowadays. This amount can easily be multiplied by 20 or 30. And mind, he had the money in his pocket, some kind of cash allowance. Primary amounts the Americans bankers provided for the Russian revolution were received through accounts of the neutral Sweden and brought by unfeatured persons of no-reputation in their cases. No one claims that Vladimir Ilyitch himself brought a thick case with money in a sealed wagon. Though, anyway, Bolsheviks had loads

 

It is not the open preparation of the October revolution, but the main backstage kind of work. By now there is not a single fact confirming directly or indirectly that Stalin was related to Western Intelligence Services. Stories of his cooperation with the tsarist secret police are a different thing, but still there is no proof of that. Joseph Vissarionovitch can be called “an honest revolutionary”, as far as the term of honesty can be applied to this category of people.

 

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of money. Who did they get that money from? From Germans? Well, some of it, indeed, but it is to be understood that significant amount of “German” money received by Lenin was paid through credits, provided to Germany by America. Just like Lenin, Trotsky was related to opaque backstairs, re-lated to foreign security services. Having come back to Russia, Trotsky and Lenin quickly united and instantly forgot about their bygone disagreements. It must also be noted that Trotsky joined the Bolsheviks’ party as late as in summer 1917. However, he applied much more efforts to organize the October revolution than any Bolshevik leader, including Lenin.

 

 

Joseph Vissarionovitch Stalin pursued interest of Russia,

 

which at that time was called the USSR, in his politics

 

Differently speaking, Leon Davydovitch Trotsky was a representative of the American capital (or Anglo-Saxon Intelligence Services) in the new revolutionary Russia. Thus, he performed certain actions and expressed certain ideas...

One fact shall be announced, and everything about Trotsky will become clear. In early 20-ies he was the Head of the People’s Commissariat of com-munication lines. Being headed by Leon Davydovitch, this company signed an agreement that would do credit to any Plunder and Flee Inc., and which

 

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made the Securities and Exchange Company look as a derisive and ama-teurish project. It was the agreement about bulk purchase of steam locos in Sweden from Nydqvist & Holm AB.

 

Everything was so very interesting in that order. Firstly, the amount, which was 1,000 steam locos. Secondly, the price, which was 200 million golden rubles. However, other details were also peculiar. Everyone knows that Sweden is not the Motherland of elephants, but the signees of that agreement somehow left out that Sweden was not top-of- the -range in regard to global locomotive construction. Nydqvist & Holm AB even had no production opportunities to produce the goods ordered by the Soviet party. So, the parties agreed that Russia would pay money, the Swedish would build a plant with that money, and then the locos would be produced and sent to us.

 

When you want to buy shoes, do you have to credit the shoe seller, so that he would to build a tannery? If someone needed locos that much, why didn’t they order them somewhere else? And if they were needed that much, why did the Soviet party agree to wait for five years?

 

Nydqvist & Holm AB had never constructed more than 40 locos per year. But at that time it decided to brace itself up and to produce as much as 50 locos in 1921! After that the order was evenly spread within five years, when the Swedish should have been building a plant with our money. In 1922 the buyer should have received 200 locos, and since 1923 till 1925 it was 250 locos per year1. At that the Soviet party wasn’t only a buyer, it was a creditor. And it wasn’t the advance payment for the locos. In May 1920 the Swedish company received not only an advance payment of 7 million Swedish crones, but also a non-interest loan of 10 million crones “to built a mechanical workshop and a boiler-house”. According to the agreement this loan should have been paid back during the period, when the last 500 locos would have been delivered.

 

If the Soviet party decided to reduce its order, the Swedish would be allowed not to pay the loan back! And the Soviet party could do so, if dis-patch of locos would be delayed due to the fault of the Swedish part. And the agreement didn’t contain any conditions that would allow to terminate the agreement with the Swedish company.

 

The Russian State Economical Archive. F. 4038. Op. 1. D. 31. L. 22. (Quoted from the book of The New Historical Messenger. 2004. No. 1.)

 

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However, it wasn’t all. The price of ordered locos was about twice as big as their cost during pre-war times. And they were paid not with devaluated paper money but with golden rubles!1 The case was rather spicy, as the price was too high, the money was paid and the goods weren’t provided. And it wasn’t clear when they would be provided! Any tax inspector or auditor would start to rub his hands, if he discovered something like that. Trouble was in the air, and the person who would discover fraud, might have been promoted.

Weirdness of “the loco case” was described in the Soviet magazine Economist in early 1922. Mr. Frolov, the author of the article, felt puzzled about such a strange way of making business. He also asked a logical ques-tion, why these locos should have been ordered in Sweden, namely. Wasn’t it logical to develop or, to be more precise, to recover the local industry? The Putilovsky plant was able of producing 250 locos per year before the war. Why didn’t it get the loan? That vast amount of money would have allowed “to put our own locomotive plants and to feed our own workers”2.

 

And indeed, the proletarian authorities should have strived to start there own industrial facilities as soon as possible and to let proletaries earn money, as supposedly the bloody massacre in Russia was started for their profit. As early as in late 1923 RSFSR had about one million unemployed3. And the Soviet government signed an incredibly stupid and enslaving agreement, definitely damaging itself, trying to feed Swedish capitalists. Why was that?

Are you surprised how weirdly Mr. Trotsky was making business? You will be surprised even further, when you learn how Lenin reacted to the article in the Economist magazine. “All of them are definitely counter-revolutionaries, the Entente supporters, a company of its slaves and spies, and youth molesters. We have to do something, so that these military spies would be caught. We have to systematically arrest them and exile them from our country”4, the Proletary leader wrote. And he asked Felix Edmundovitch Dzerzhinsky to close this magazine down...

 

The New Historical Messenger. 2004. No. 1.

 

Frolov, A. N. Modern state and nearest perspectives of railway transport.Economist. 1922. No. 1. P. 176. (Quoted from the book The New Historical Messenger. 2004. No. 1.)

Brief course of history of VKPb. M., 1938. P. 251.

 

Lenin, V. I. Collected edition. V. 54. P. 266.

 

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Let’s get back to the price of the agreement, the one so unfavorable for Russia, which was almost prohibited to criticize. It was 200 million golden rubles. Was it much or not? To understand this we need to find out what a golden ruble was. In 1922 Lenin’s government passed through a monetary reform to get economy out of crisis. New monetary units were produced, chervonets. They contained 7.74 grams of gold. One new chervonets was worth 10 golden pre-revolution rubles. This arrangement turned out to be rather successful. In a short period of time rate of the Soviet chervonets against global currencies became even and then became even more profit-able than the tsarist pre-revolution ruble was1.

 

The golden ruble was a sterling monetary unit. When Bolsheviks came to power, golden reserves of the State bank in Russia was 1.101 million golden rubles. Some of gold (650 million rubles) were evacuated to Kazan, then Kolchak got it, and after he was defeated, about 409 million rubles were returned2. Though, this would have been like that, if Bolsheviks wouldn’t have spend a kopeck, but we know that it wasn’t so.

 

So, 200 million rubles didn’t just make a colossal amount. It was one quarter of the gold reserve of the country!

 

Why did it happen? Why was Trotsky doing it, and why Lenin was cov-ering this colossal mess up? Were Ilyitch and Davydytch flatly stealing for a rainy day? Could they have been stealing that especially large amounts? Wasn’t that absurd? Why would the Head of the Soviet Russia Vladimir Ilyitch Lenin deliver money to the West in such clumsy way? He was never going to move there himself. And why would he need as much as ј of the country’s golden reserve?! Lenin can be accused of any sins, but monetary symbols weren’t of decisive importance in his life ever. On the contrary, Bolsheviks would desperately need money to construct the new state. The loco agreement was signed in the end of 1920 — beginning of 1921.

 

Wrangel’s army evacuated from Crimea to Constantinople in Novem-ber 1920. In fact, it was the end of the Civil War. Money should have been transferred from the country before that, in 1918–1919, when Denikin had a short bound to Moscow and when Judenitch was at Petrograd. In 1921

 

In 1924 one dollar was worth one ruble and 94 kopecks. Compare: in 1907 one dollar was worth two tsarist rubles.

Archive of the Russian Revolution. M., 1991. V. 5–6. P. 103.

 

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it was time to blow the steam off and to start recovery of the country and establishment of new socialistic peace in it.

So, what can such strange actions of Lenin and Trotsky mean? It just was that debts should have been repaid and that agreements should have been fulfilled. Amounts spent for crushing of Russia should have been paid back. It was one of the agreements between representatives of Western govern-ment and Bolsheviks. Lenin managed to stay in power for so long, because he didn’t breach all his agreements with the Anglo-Saxon “partners” at once, because he was doing it step by step and because he violated only some of the agreements. Having come to power in Russia with the aim to crush it, he aggregated all of its lands on the quiet. This can explain certain logics of his actions. Let’s not pay tsarist debts, but let’s provide concessions. Let’s not return the power, but let’s repay the money spent.

 

They were paying the money back in many ways. The simplest way was to take values abroad. If you think that money were spent for “the global revolution”, please, note the following. Lenin and Co were preparing the so-called “global revolution” only in Germany and Austro-Hungary, but they didn’t do any preparations in either France or Great Britain. And foremost, amounts of financial support that Bolsheviks provided for crushing of the German Empire never matched the amount of values really transported away from Russia. The Swedish police announced that Bolsheviks provided 2 million rubles for revolution propaganda abroad (meaning, only in Germany). However, in autumn 1918, right when the coming German revolution was being financially backed up, Isidor Gukowski, Deputy People’s Commissar of Finance, arrived in Stockholm. He had crates full of money and gems. Hands at the Swedish police as-sessed the amount of that from 40 to 60 million rubles1. What were these amounts intended for? How come they were 20 to 30 times bigger than the official amount Lenin had provided for the German revolution? Mind that values were mainly transported through Sweden, where the Soviet Embassy was opened in the end of November 1917, headed by Vatslav Vorovsky. Millions of rubles started to be transferred to banks of Stock-holm, in particular, to Nya Banken of Olof Aschberg, whose name is often met in books telling us how Bolsheviks financially supported Germans. And what is interesting, money arrived in Russia and went away from it through the same channels. At that, when money was being transferred

 

Bjцrkegren, H. Traffic in Scandinavia. Russian Revolutionaries in Scandinavia in1906–1917. M., 2007. P. 425–427.

 

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to Russia through Sweden, it was kind of German money. But did Ilyitch provide the money to Germany, when it was transferred back in the same way? Did Kaiser spend that money to start revolution in his own country?

 

It is not as difficult to answer this question as it may seem. On one hand, Bolsheviks were transferring money from Russia to repay the “debts” to their curators from the British Intelligence Service. This money was directly transferred to Kaiser’s Germany and used to crush it, which the Anglo-Saxon needed. On the other hand, Soviet Russia won the Civil War, which involved acquisition of the necessary equipment abroad. And finally, pumping Russian values to the USA and Great Britain ensured that authorities of the most powerful countries of the world would be loyal to Bolsheviks. All the above-mentioned together allowed Bolsheviks to win in the Russian civil strife so unexpectedly.

 

This is what the American Historian Guido Giacomo Preparata tells us in his book: “The significant number of contracts, concessions, and licenses subsequently released by Lenin’s empire to American firms during the Civil War, and in its immediate aftermath, formed something of a smok-ing gun of Bolshevism’s early Allied sponsorship: $25 million of Soviet commissions for US manufactures between July 1919 and January 1920, not to mention Lenin’s concession for the extraction of asbestos to Ar-mand Hammer in 1921, and the 60-year lease granted in 1920 to Frank Vanderlip’s (the Chairman of the Board of the National City Bank of New-York. — N. S.) US consortium formed to exploit the coal, petroleum and fisheries of a North Siberian region covering 600,000 square kilometers”1.

 

This was the top-level political pliantness, refusing and agreeing at once. If they would have totally refused on all accounts and have decided not to pay the borrowed money back, that might have caused new murderous assaults, and even their own comrades might have liquidated them. So, it was necessary to return THAT money anyway!

 

Though, how could money have been returned to Western bankers? Could it have been transferred to the West with a payment slip saying “Bank of New York; to American bankers”? And the description of payment purpose should be “Repayment for the Russian revolution and Bolsheviks’ victory in the Civil war”, then. Naturally, that was impossible. Proletary leaders can’t provide “people’s” money to Western bourgeois. Especially when such troubled times came. Let me remind you that in March 1921, when Russia received its first 50 locos, the revolt in Kronshtadt burst out.

 

Preparata, G. G. Hitler Inc. How Britain and America made the Third Reich. P. 120.

 

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How can one quarter of the country’s golden reserve can be transported away without a weak spot anywhere? An EXCUSE is required, and the true receivers of the payment could help with that. You simply need to buy something from the West, and there will be no problem with departure of the money train. For instance, you can buy locomotives, which Russia needs really bad. Trotsky organized this purchase, but Lenin’s rather rough reac-tion to the article published in the Economist magazine can be explained by the fact that these activities had been planned and approved by Ilyitch himself. So, you still fail to understand why Bolsheviks won the Civil War, and the White Armed Forced aided by “the Western democracies” lost it?1

 

By the way, money for revolution were transferred to Russia through the Swedish bank system. Then they were repaid through it. With interests and words of gratitude. However, that was where “friendship” and “cooperation” ended. And Lenin and Co had control over the USSR in their hands. That was more important than money and more valuable than gold.

To comprehend background of relationship between Bolsheviks and the West one must remember that Leninists had scammed the Anglo-Saxon, in fact. The latter were substantially tricked, as neither the country or its treasures were surrendered to them. However, while the Civil War was going on in Russia, and while it was hoped that Bolsheviks would have “cleaned up their acts” and would have done everything as it should have been done, Communism and Bolshevism fighters weren’t too popular. Though, they were still needed to a certain extent, as someone should have been “the bloody dog” and the bugaboo to ensure better pliability of fervent revolutionaries.

After that active stranglehold of the Russian White armed forces started. If you haven’t read memoirs of generals and officers, who left with Wrangel, you should do it. Their point is that firstly the British and the French refused to supply to the Wrangel’s army after leaving, though later they agreed to provide their support, having taken Russian battle ships as payment, though. At the same time they started active propaganda among soldiers, calling them to leave the army and to become refugees. Only adamant wills of Wrangel and Kutepov allowed to keep the troops under control. However, sooner or later members of the White army would have to spread all over Europe, living at misery and taking the hardest jobs.

 

For more details about support the Allies provided to the Whites and reasons of their defeat check Starikov, N. 1917. Who finished Russia? M., 2007.

 

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And there was no real need for the German national socialists in 1920– 1921, either. That is why they didn’t get any support, and they should have thanked Hitler’s talents and enthusiasm of his first comrades and supporters for their first minor success. This was the time of those soft-hearted elder ladies, who would spare some money to the hungry Nazi. The point was that “the true Arians” were “as all right as soot is white”, “Till the middle of 1921 the Party couldn’t afford a cashier, and bill-carriers had no money to buy any glue!”1

 

Hitler’s portraits of that period show him in simple and sometimes shabby clothes. He was living in a beggarly furnished small room in Tir-strasse, its floor covered with rubbed-off linoleum. There was only a bed, and a bookshelf, and one armchair, and a self-made table there2. Friede-lind, granddaughter of Richard Wagner, the favorite composer of Hitler’s, remembered him like: “In Bavarian leather breeches, short thick woolen socks, a red-blue-checked shirt and a short blue jacket that bagged about his unpadded skeleton”3.

 

And here is one more description of Hitler, “In his heavy boots, dark costume and leather vest, half-upstanding collar, with that weird moustache, he didn’t make any striking impression. He looked much like a waiter in a landside cafй”4.

The Fьhrer also had some attitude to business, “He made everybody desperate, because you could never be sure, if he would attend the meeting appointed, and it wasn’t possible to wrest any decision out of him”5.

When Pfeffer von Salomon, future Head of storm troops (Sturmab-teilung), saw his Fьhrer for the first time, he simply refused to get acquainted with him. That was because the Leader was dressed as a homeless vagrant, an old morning coat, yellow leather boots and a rucksack on his back. An-other description of Hitler’s appearance of that time said he was wearing a blue costume, a violate shirt, a brown vest and a bright red neck-tie6. The future Fьhrer made a poor show, didn’t he? In modern language, stylists and

 

Fest, I. Hitler. V. 1. P. 270 .

 

Hanfstaengl, E. Hitler. The Missing Years. P. 44.

 

Bullock, A. Hitler and Stalin. V. 1. P. 106.

 

Hanfstaengl, E. Hitler. The Missing Years. P. 27–28.

 

Ibid. P. 76.

 

Fest, I. Hitler. V. 1. P. 221.

 

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imagemakers had a lot of work to do. And they did! Can anyone imagine Hitler of 1941 in shorts?

Hitler’s personal expenses were also very minor. As late as on Easter in 1923 he borrowed several Deutschemarks from Gцring to take a festive trip to the mountains. Talking of these years later he stated, “For years I lived on Tyrolean apples. It’s crazy what economies we had to make. Every mark saved was for the Party”1.

As they say, beggars are not choosers. That is why all first supporters of Hitler were ideological. It was because their leader didn’t work for money, he worked for the sake of the idea, and this caused certain respect and at-tracted people to Hitler as much as his gift of oratory did. When did the Nazi’s financial position start to improve? As soon as they were needed for the first time. As we see they weren’t required in 1921, and in the beginning of 1922 there was still no need in them. Historians don’t report any financial miracles in regard to the Nazi of that period.

 

Since April 10 till May 19, 1922 the Soviet Russia under the name of RSFSR participated in the International conference in the Italian town of Genoa2. In fact, it was the first “beauty parade” of Bolsheviks’ leaders in front of the entire “civilization”. And as usual, money was discussed. The Western governments pushed immense financial claims out, which included both pre-war and war debts plus interests. Besides, Bolsheviks were required to repay all property provided to the White governments, which they hadn’t paid (!) with interests, as well as to reimburse cost of all enterprises, which had been owned by foreign citizens. In opinion of Western experts, all of it was worth 18 billion golden rubles.

 

Naturally, Bolsheviks couldn’t pay that much. Annual payment would have equaled 80 % of Russia’s state balance of that time. Naturally, it was expected that Bolsheviks incapable of paying back would have surrendered Russia and have finalized its enslavement, passing it to their ex- partners from the Entente, who had crushed the Russian Empire by means of revolution, aided by Kerensky and Lenin.

And that was then that Vladimir Ilyitch gave the finger to the negotiat-ing partners. Instead of implicit acknowledgement of debts and driving

 

Geiden, K. Way of the NSDAP. Fьhrer and His Party. P. 178.

 

The USSR will be established on December 30, 1922. It will include Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia and the Transcaucasian Republic.

 

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Russia into financial servitude the Soviet delegation didn’t hesitate to push a counterclaim out, which included foreign intervention and the Blockade. The total amount was 30 billion golden rubles. Several days later dumbstruck Western diplomatic officials were offered a softer version of the claim. Bolsheviks agreed to acknowledge pre-war debts of Russia and were ready to provide former owners with the right to lease their ex-property or to take it on concession terms. In exchange England, France and Italy were to acknowledge the Soviet government de jure, provide it with financial sup-port, “forget” about nationalized enterprises, as well as forgive war debts and corresponding interests.

 

No one had ever talked to the winners in World War I that boldly. Be-sides, while Western delegations were discussing incredible Bolsheviks’ de-mands, the Soviet delegations managed an extremely important diplomatic step. On April 16, 1922 a termless agreement between RSFSR and Germany was signed in Rapallo, the Genoa suburb. Parties mutually gave up their claims in regard to reimbursement of military expenses and non -military losses; moreover, Germany acknowledged nationalization of the German state and private property in the RSFSR! This Agreement was signed in secret, at night, and diplomatic officials of other Western delegations learnt about it only after it had been signed1.

 

That was too much! Actually, Lenin’s Russia managed to trick both the British and the French. Naturally, the Genoa conference ended in nothing. Right after it another attempt to make Bolsheviks surrender Russia to the West failed. During the Hague conference on June 15–22, 1922, the Soviet delegation held to the same stand as it had done in Genoa. It became clear that Bolsheviks got out of control and should have been talked to in a differ-ent way. And it was also necessary to bring discipline to Germany, which so clearly had showed its independence. The British Intelligence Service didn’t accomplish revolutions in Russia and Germany to make two of them friends!

 

Two days after the Treaty of Rapallo had been signed, on April 18, 1922 governments of the Entente countries, the Little Entente countries (Yu-goslavia, Czechoslovakia, Romania) and Poland, and Portugal addressed Germany with a sharp note. They accused Germany of being disloyal to the Allies, as well as of “secretly signing of the agreement with Russia behind backs of its colleagues”. The Mass Media caused incredible distur-

 

Danilov, A. A., Kosulina, L. G. History of Russia. The XX century. M., 1998. P. 235.

 

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bance. Finally, Joseph Wirth and Walter Rathenau, leaders of the German delegation, paid a visit to the Soviet delegation next day, on April 19th, and begged (!) to return them the signed agreement. The representatives of the “free democratic” Germany were in such panic that they were visit-ing the British embassy, calling Berlin and coming back to talk the Soviet delegation into pretending there hadn’t been an agreement signed all the time! Naturally, Russian diplomatic officials didn’t understand that, and the agreement remained in effect.

 

And instantly the powers required by the Anglo-Saxon roused in the country of beer and sausage. Like frogs in the drying up moor they were waiting for their time. When the moor dries up, they are waiting petrified. Though, when some vivifying moisture is spilled, they become extremely active. It was just like that with German political parties. With the necessary ones, naturally, with the nationalistic ones.

 

Let me remind you that the Treaty of Rapallo was signed on April 16, 1922. And of all things “the abrupt increase of the amount of party members”of NSDAP started right in spring 1922!1 It was in 1922–1923 that runaway inflation started in Germany. The population was rashly becoming poor.

 

And in the middle of 1922 Adolf Hitler got some money. Rather a lot of money, in fact. It was because he planned to hold a party conference in Munich in January 1923. Five thousand of perfectly (and freshly!) uniformed troopers should have marched in front of their leader2. At the same time twelve sites for holding of meetings were leased. Orchestras, folk dancers and even a famous clown were hired to attract the audience3. Right after Rapallo, in spring 1922, the print run of the Hitlerite newspaper rapidly increased from 8 to 17.5 thousand copies4. And when the conference ended, they started to issue Vцlkischer Beobachter every day. So, there were some coincidences…

 

Fest, I. Hitler. Perm. V. 1. P. 253.

 

During the Genoa conference Henry Deterding, Head of the oil company Royal Dutch offered to establish a united consortium that would get all oil concessions in Russia. When the offer failed, he instantly appeared among those financially supporting the beginning politician Adolf Hitler (Geiden, K. NSDAP way. The Fьhrer and his party. M., 2004. P. 146).

 

Fest, I. Hitler. V. 1. P. 261.

 

Ibid. P. 352.

 

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Now we can answer the question why the mysterious foreign sponsors supported the young Nazi movement. German nationalists actively used outer forces to destabilize the situation in the country. Nazis were effective and valuable not personally but for the ability to provoke in Germany the governmental crisis and to remove the cabinet, so disliked by the Anglo-Saxon, that had guts to sign an agreement with Bolsheviks. Weimar Republic was the democratic country and the cabinet would easily resign should the political situation in the country go worse. Instead of resignation (if not accepted) the nationalists could also organize assassination. Let us once again remember the date of conclusion of the Soviet and German treaty of Rapallo. It was April 16, 1922. And on June 24, 1922 the group of nationalist plotters assassinated the Minister of the Foreign Affairs of Germany, Wal-ther Rathenau, who was ethnic Jewish. This was an obvious example for all German politicians: the assassinated was for approximation with Moscow1. Though for gradual approximation, looking back to the West.

Already on November 14, 1922 Josef Wirth, German Chancellor, re-signed. He was the one who authorized the Treaty of Rapallo. Wirth frankly wanted the approximation of Germany with the Soviet Russia, however, he was for gradual steps and feared reaction of the western states to such foreign policy and independence of Germany2. Death of Walther Rathenau was convincing and showed that such fears did really had grounds.

Along with the tension inside the German government the pressure from outside also grew stronger. Delays in payment of reparations became an excuse. Some time earlier in the history the Entente countries did not rush Germany but then it was the different time. After Rathenau’s assassination and resignation of Wirth some crucial measures followed. In January 1923 the French troops occupied the major industrial land of Germany — Ruhr3 to take under control coal mining and shipment. German government urged

 

Sadovaya, G. M. Walther Rathenau: the Path to Rapallo // History andHistoriography of the Foreign World in Persons Samara, 1999. P. 121–139.

Gintzberg, L. I. Josef Wirth: a Path to Struggle for Peace and Partnership betweenthe Peoples/Modern and Contemporary History 1981. No. 1. P. 105–124; No. 2. P. 102–121.

The Ruhr land is approximately 90 km long and 45 km wide. We will mention this land later on again but keep in mind for now that this small piece of land produced about 80 % of German coal, cast iron and steel and had the most developed railway system in the world.

 

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the population to put up passive resistance. The French really did behave as the invaders. For example, they executed by shooting from the machine gun a demonstration of workers at one of the factories in Essen. Thirteen people were killed and over thirty were injured. When the funerals of the killed were visited by about half a million people, the French military court sentenced the owner of the firm and eight employees that held management positions to fifteen and twenty years of imprisonment accordingly1.

The whole Germany clenched its teeth in indignation. Diversions and attacks of the French soldiers started on the territory of Ruhr which were followed by numerous death sentences2. What about the Nazis that dressed as the extreme German patriots at the meetings?

For those who understands the true financial sources of Hitler, it would be no surprise that members of his party did not participate in struggle with the French. On the contrary, Hitler personally promised to expel anyone who was actively participating in the resistance of Ruhr occupation! There were actual cases when he fulfilled his threat. According to witnesses it was just a year earlier when Hitler was talking about the necessity of the partisan warfare if the Ruhr land was occupied!3

The grown and stronger NSDAP could be easily used as any other na-tionalistic groups for destabilization of the inner affairs in Germany. There is such a twist of fate! Those who more than any others shout about the Great Russia, Great Germany and so on, in most cases blindly used the geopoliti-cal rivals of its countries to weaken and disintegrate them! Let’s think about the noble but short-sighted White Russians. Rejecting the pure thought about “trading Russia”, heads of the White Movement lost in the Civil War in the end and gave up the country to Bolsheviks. Contemporary Russian skinheads and extreme nationalists do not even suspect that by beating up the “blacks” they firstly damage their own country. It is not about the image of the state but about the simple fact that in a multinational country assault of one nation by another always leads to disintegration which in the end is so desirable for its outside rivals. In the same way Nazi Hitler voluntarily or

 

Fest, I. Hitler. V. 1. P. 265.

 

In Ruhr land 400 people were executed for acts of sabotage and 300 of them were executed by ... the German authorities (Preparata, G. G. Hitler Inc. How Britain and America Made the Third Reich. P. 191).

Hanfstaengl, E. Hitler. The Missing Years. P. 33.

 

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involuntarily played into the French and English hands that financed him not by means of his mythical “separatism” but by the very pure “patriotism”!1Approximately one year before Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch there had ap-peared several interesting personalities. Together with them there came the money which origin could not be explained by the historians. Financial streams flew to Hitler from many directions. Besides French and English (“Swiss”) sources American funds also found Hitler. In the same year of 1922 Germany was searching for new political personalities who could be later used depending on the situation: to replace the disliked politicians, to organize murders and provocations. At that time nobody was planning to lead Hitler to the power. Almost nobody even ever heard of such person. That is why American military attachй in Germany captain Truman Smith at first met with entirely different people: the former general Luden-dorff who was in charge of the German army during the World War I and Crown Prince Rupprecht. They told American captain about the new rising star. On November 20, 1922 captain met with Fьhrer in his shabby flat on the first floor2 . Hitler was quite frank with the American. It was clear that if the military attachй of the embassy was interested in politicians and not only in guns, the field of his activities should be larger than simply military issues. Yet unknown head of the small local Bavarian party told about his intention to “eliminate Bolshevism”, “to remove Versailles shackles”, to es-tablish dictatorship and create a strong country. Practically Hitler used the rare chance when an American intelligence agent found him and offered his personality as the “civilisation sword” in the struggle with Marxism.

 

That is with Russia!

 

The offer turned out to be very timely: such fanatics would be in need at any moment. It was not yet time to fight with the Russians but it was good idea to have a closer look at the guy. When captain Truman Smith returned to Berlin, he made a detailed report that was on November 25, 1922 sent by the embassy to Washington. The pity was that the official American military attachй could not occupy himself with the German politician too actively due to his diplomatic status. However Hitler seemed to the Yankee so perspective that the same day the future Fьhrer was under control of the

 

Right after the Hitler’s putsch (8–9.11.1923). Chancellor, G. Stresemann resigned (23.11.1923).

Shirer, W. Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. M., 1991. P. 38.

 

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new contactee from the American intelligence service. Nazi leader gave the pass to the next meeting of the party to the Yankee but captain Truman Smith did not go there himself but sent their a “friend of his”. The friend’s name was Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl. The son of a successful art dealer, who had German father and American mother, was born in Bavaria and in 1909 graduated from Harvard University. The entire World War I half-German Hanfstaengl spent in the United Sates and was in no hurry to support his distant motherhood. Moreover he was not arrested being the German citizen when the USA declared war to Germany and when he promised “not to get involved into any anti-American activities”, he was let free. Why? Because his lawyer turned out to be the Secretary of State of the American President Theodore Roosevelt!1

 

However when Germany lost in the war, Hanfstaengl rushed back to his native country. In destroyed Germany that was suffering from inflation life of an “American” Ernst was an example of prosperity and affluence. He always had some money but the resource of his income was not always quite transparent: because the damned inflation destroyed German firm of his father. “Official” version of his prosperity was some kind of an art gallery in the United States. Such explanation was persuasive and could not be checked. That is a very convenient explanation.

 

When Ernst received an invitation to the meeting in which Hitler was going to take part, he instantly liked him and they soon became friends. Later he even wrote the memoir books called My Friend Adolf, My Enemy Hitler and Hitler. Missed Years. I would really recommend everybody toread those books. Why? Not because the books have some literature value but rather because of some impressive facts set forth in the books. It turns out that vanity is typical not only of poets and artists, commanders and men of letters. It is typical of the intelligence agents as well. That is why in the afternoon of their lives they slowly write a modest book in which, of course, they do not reveal all the facts, no. But they very neatly insert the truth among the well-known historical facts, they insert such truth in hues so that the attentive reader would realize that author of the book was rendering history secretly from everybody — helping the weird fanatic Adolf Hitler.

 

There is something to write about indeed. Ernst who was two meters tall was nicknamed by Nazis “Putzi” which meant “baby” (or “funny” or “amus-

 

Hanfstaengl, E. Hitler. The Missing Years. P. 22.

 

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ing”). Under this name he entered the history of the German Nationalistic Movement and history books. Narrow-minded historians picture Hanfs-taengl as a typical motley forgetting that such role is the most convenient for hidden impact on the ruler.

 

Ernst Hanfstaengl, American intelligence agent following the task from his government but not his heart provided Adolf Hitler with truly invaluable services

 

Putzi’s role in establishment of NSDAP as the party and Hitler as the political leader has never been really appreciated. Pianist Hanfstaengl intro-duced the coarse corporal to Munich nobility, its arts and literature circles. Meeting such people as the Hanfstaengl family attached some respectability that lacked Hitler’s personality and established new important connections. As a matter of fact Putzi and his wife Helen were the first noble family that opened the doors of their house to Hitler. Most probably they were his first “stylists” and “image-makers”. Hitler learnt how to behave in the society and acquired some manners.

 

He was always welcome in the Hanfstaengl villa. It was the place where Hitler could not only enjoy his favorite Wagner played live on the piano but also get some financial support. Putzi Hanfstaengl was rich and could afford to support a little the beginner-politician. He could suggest some-

 

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thing, show the correct direction. Ideas that Hanfstaengl put into the head of Hitler-beginner were honestly revealed in his memoirs: “Should there be another war, it will be inevitably won by those supported by America. The only correct policy that you should stand up for is friendship with the United States. If Americans occur on the side of your rivals, you will loose any war”1.

 

Take notice that such advocacy was addressed not to the leader of the state or head of the government but to the yet unknown leader of a marginal organization. Thanks to the editor who wrote introduction to Hanfstaengl’s book: He formulated Putzi’s words in a shorter and simpler manner: His ideas consisted in the fact that Germany would never get balance and magnitude without partnership with Britain and especially with the United States. The main idea that he was trying to fix in Hitler’s head was that any attempts to balance accounts in Europe would turn delusive if those two naval states joined the opposing party”2.

 

Those thoughts were good and correct. If we develop them further, we will get the following: be friends with England and the USA and fight with Russia. It seems we have already come across those ideas somewhere, have seen them already. But where? In Hitler’s Mein Kampf! It is getting more and more interesting: in 1923 Hanfstaengl had geopolitical dialogues with Hitler, he educated the future Fьhrer, extended his outlooks. And no later than in 1924 the “student” already wrote a book where he word by word repeated the ideas of his friend. So who is the real author of Mein Kampf? Turns out it’s an American intelligence agent.

 

If somebody has doubts with regards to why Ernst Hanfstaengl “by acci-dent” got to know Adolf Hitler, just advise such person to read Hanfstaengl’s books. There would be no more doubts. Too many factors point at the fact to which authority the rich American “friend” of the German Nazis belonged to. Beyond any doubt Hitler was the talented orator. But such talent had to be developed and nourished. Ernst Hanfstaengl was the one who supported Hitler in becoming a self-confident leader. He lifted his oratory talent to the next level: “I told him about an efficient use of the expressive aphorisms in the American political life and explained how this can be intensified by

 

Hanfstaengl, E. Hitler. The Missing Years. P. 36, 62.

 

Ibid. P. 9–10.

 

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caustic headings in the newspapers, how speech can be made brighter with phonetic and alliteration effects”1.

Hitler agreed. In fact he absorbed almost everything like a sponge. “In many respects Hitler was pliable and compliant”2, — pointed out Hanfs-taengl. Within developing his orator’s talent Hitler asked quite reasonable questions:

“You are absolutely right. But how can I drum my ideas into the heads of the German people without being published? Newspapers completely ignore me. How can I think about my oratory successes with our damned Vцlkischer Beobachter that comes out weekly? We will not achieve anything until it is published daily”3.

It was the year of 1923. In November Hitler would make an attempt of the coup d’etat. He badly needed propaganda to get support of the people. And propaganda required financing. Too bad it was nowhere to get the financing. Possibly the future Fьhrer would be a simple orator forever who made speeches at Munich beer feasts if not for a saying: rather have a hun-dred friends than a hundred rubles.

Adolf Hitler did not have a hundred of friends but he had one true friend. And that was enough because his friend was Ernst Hanfstaengl. He would be the one to finance propaganda! “In March 1923 Hanfstaengl gave Hitler a loan in the amount of one thousand dollars. During those times such sum was a lot of money”4.

Don’t get confused about the word “loan”. There are many grounds to suppose that Putzi didn’t rush Hitler to return that money. And one thousand was really a great sum of money in those times! According to Hanfstaengl even one dollar was a fortune not to mention a thousand!5

Members of the Nazi party used the money to purchase two new print-ing machines for their newspaper Vцlkischer Beobachter. At that moment Hitler’s newspaper was no longer a small piece of paper, but became a regular newspaper that came out daily. It was not the only Hanfstaengl’s contribution in creating Nazi’s major mouthpiece. He personally attracted a cartoonist

 

Hanfstaengl, E. Hitler. The Missing Years. P. 51.

 

Ibid. P. 63.

 

Ibid. P. 50–51.

 

Heiden, K. The Path of NSDAP. Fьhrer and His Party. P. 178.

 

Hanfstaengl, E. Hitler. The Missing Years. P. 40.

 

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Schwarzer to develop the new bright heading, the “cap” and suggested the new motto for the newspaper — “Labour and Bread”1.

When publishing was arranged smoothly, Hanfstaengl helped Hitler in other small but very important matters. He was the one who explained Hitler that music was extremely important to throw the crowd into ecstasies and to force historic enthusiasm. As example Putzi played for Fьhrer Harvard marches and Hitler even made SA orchestra to memorize the melody. Afterwards Hanfstaengl composed about ten new march melodies for the Assault Division!2 when Hitler was elected Chancellor, the Assault Division would be marching under the Brandenburg Gate to those “pathetic marches” composed by an American.

 

At the same time the fact of Putzi’s supporting Nazi and transfer of the money was thoroughly hidden by Hanfstaengl. Several times he mentions that in his memoirs: “I decided to secretly support the nationalistic-socialistic party”; “I... understood that any support which I provided had to be kept secret”; “I still kept in secret my support of the Nazi and could not allow any fuss about it”3.

What was the reason to hide it? Explanations were quite unconvincing: “I am a member of the family firm”. So what important business did Hanfs-taengl have with Hitler that it was allowed to walk with him in the street but not allowed to help him with money? Upon arrival from America to the native land the future Fьhrer’s fan was engaged not in trading or brokerage but in studying of the Bavarian king-patron Ludwig II4. It is all the same as being afraid of being compromised during Yeltzin’s time for studying the favourites of empress Catherine II or Elisabeth. What else Hanfstaengl was engaged in other than teaching Hitler, sponsoring him and going into busi-ness trips with him? It is hard to understand from his memoirs. He did not include detailed descriptions of his commercial activities.

 

Yet he did remember to tell the reader about the content of Hitler’s book shelve which he once observed while visiting Fьhrer. Would you be interested to find out what the head of the political party read in his free time? I guess so. You would look at the shelf, wouldn’t you? Would you

 

Hanfstaengl, E. Hitler. The Missing Years. P. 51.

 

Ibid. P. 48.

 

Ibid. P. 39, 55.

 

Martirosyan, A. Who Brought War to USSR? M., 2007. P. 287.

 

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remember all the names? You would probably have a look and remember some of them. But you would hardly be able to reproduce the exact list of books when you wrote memoirs 25 years after. That’s because you are an ordinary person. While Ernst Hanfstaengl, such a great friend of the Nazi leader made something extraordinary for an ordinary person “Books were all different. Finding some time I made a list of them”1, — wrote the Ameri-can. Such behaviour that seems extraordinary for an average person is quite typical for an intelligence agent.

 

It seems that contacts with Hitler and collection of information were the major activity and work of his friend Hanfstaengl. The rest was only a kind of disguise. So, for example, Hanfstaengl supposedly wrote the script for a movie and supposedly it took him almost a year. But this movie was never even screened! Why? Because Putzi never wrote a script. He was system-atically busy with the only thing really — preparing the future Fьhrer for Germany. While telling about his script-making was a good reply to any question about his professional life. After all there was no such profession as supporting Hitler.

 

“The party always lacked money”2, — wrote Hanfstaengl in his book. Why then the two-meter friend and sponsor gave only one thousand dol-lars, not two, or three, or ten if he was so close to Hitler for a reason? Very simple: His legend was that he was rich but not a billionaire; he could not donate amounts that exceeded reasonable extents of the rich bourgeois. One thousand dollars was fine but not ten, no. Yet he could introduce Hitler to the right people, he could give good advice. Soon came the time, just before the putsch, when Hitler went to Switzerland to get some money. This country had always been home for intelligence services of all the countries of our world. Was it again the true friend who directed him there?

 

This fact is left unknown but we know for sure another thing: After fail-ure with the putsch Hitler ran away to Hanfstaengl house located in settle-ment Uffing, 60 km from Munich3. At that moment Hitler was in despair, his hysterical personality was extremely stressed. Seeing no way out Hitler made a decision to shoot himself and put the revolver against his temple. As we know well it never happened. Who should we thank for saving the

 

Hanfstaengl, E. Hitler. The Missing Years. P. 44.

 

Ibid. P. 52.

 

Seward, D. Napoleon and Hitler. Smolensk, 1995. P. 79.

 

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life of one of the most terrible savage in the history? Hanfstaengl’s wife, she was the one who knocked out the revolver from Hitler’s hand. It was in this house that Hitler got arrested by policemen and sent to prison where he began to classify his ideas (told by Hanfstaengl) into a book. The first thing Hitler did after coming out of prison was not visiting Gцring or Rosenberg but visiting Hanfstaengl’s new house behind the river Isar...

 

Hanfstaengl couple managed to save Hitler’s life twice. For the first time it happened in 1923 during their car trip to Berlin. The road was going through Saxony which was practically under the power of com-munists. That is why in that part of Germany there existed an order to arrest Hitler and “was even assigned a price for his head”. The unit of communistic militia stopped the car on the road. Then it was really the question of life and death. And at that very moment Hanfstaengl took out the Swiss passport out of his pocket (he used it to return from the USA) and explained that he was a foreigner going to the Leipzig Fair and accompanied by the driver and the footman. “You saved my life”, said Hitler then. In the next years Hitler always remembered that incident with appreciation. While Hanfstaengl wrote in his book that “Hitler was offended that I called him the footman”.

 

Grateful Hitler did not forget his friend and appointed him to the re-sponsible position of the Press Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the party. Besides Putzi was in the head of the department of foreign press in the staff of Fьhrer’s deputy. In his business trips abroad he was actively advertising new German powers.

Skeptic would say that these facts do not prove anything. And he would be absolutely right! Yet Hanfstaengl’s biography includes some more interest-ing facts. That modest press secretary had some truly incredible contacts and acquaintances.

In summer 1932 a rather influential British politician came to Germany with a private visit. His name was Winston Churchill. In Sir Winston’s memoirs we find a very interesting note: “In hotel Regina one gentleman was introduced to one of my companions. His surname was Hanfstaengl. He talked about Fьhrer a lot and seemed to be a close friend of his. As I found him entertaining and talkative and all the same he spoke good English I in-vited him to have lunch. He was really under a spell telling about Hitler’s opinions and views. I could feel he was completely charmed by him. Most

 

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probably he was ordered to engineer contacts with me as he was clearly making all the attempts to leave a good impression. After lunch he startedplaying the piano and he performed a lot of plays and songs so well that we all had a great pleasure. He turned out to know all my favourite English songs. And he was good at entertaining society. It turned out he was Fьhrer’s favourite at that time. He told me that I had to meet Hitler personally and that it would be easy for him to engineer a meeting between us”1.

 

Sir Winston told about the matter as if some accidental acquaintance was trying to introduce him to Fьhrer. In Hanfstaengl’s description the story sounded differently: “I spent quite a lot of time in the company of his son, Randolph (Churchill’s son. — N. S.) during our pre-election trips. I even organized plane flights together with him once or twice2. He paid my at-tention to the fact that his father comes with the visit to Germany and that we should arrange a meeting”3.

You must admit that knowing the son who several times had flights with Hitler and Hanfstaengl is something more than just “one gentleman was introduced to one of my companions”. One way or another but Brit-ish politician agreed to arrange a meeting: “At that time I had no national prejudices against Hitler. I knew little of his doctrine, of his past and knew absolutely nothing of his personal qualities. I admire people who rise in defense of their defeated country even if I am on the other end. He had the full right to be a German patriot if he wanted to”4.

 

So who actually ordered Hanfstaengl to “make contact” with the British politician? Who ordered him to arrange a meeting of the two great political personalities? Hitler himself? No. Fьhrer did not ask to arrange this contact because he did not go to that meeting with Churchill no matter how hard Ernst Hanfstaengl persuaded him to! “That is how Hitler missed the only chance to meet with me”5, — complained Churchill. A serious politician

 

Churchill, W. World War II V. 1. P. 151.

 

As Hitler was the major striking force of Nazis during the last year before his coming to the power in the country he was constantly flying to meetings from one German town to another. He was provided with a special rented plane and Goebbels came out with a good advertising slogan: “Fьhrer over Germany”.

 

Hanfstaengl, E. Hitler. The Missing Years. P. 200.

 

Churchill, W. World War II V. 1. P. 15.

 

Ibid. P. 15.

 

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could not behave like that — first ask about the meeting with one of the leading political personalities of the most powerful state in the world and later failing to go that meeting. That was too childish and not frivolous. It was only half a year left before Hitler seized the power, and personal meet-ing with Churchill would not be unnecessary. It appears that Hanfstaengl was ordered to introduce Hitler to Churchill not by the Nazis but by that very intelligence service that very cleverly and neatly attached their agent to the rising star of the German politics Adolf Hitler. Otherwise why would he know Churchill’s son and take him to pre-election flights?

 

Hitler and Hanfstaengl (the first on the left) at the plane during the continuous pre-election flights. Son of Winston Churchill several times participated in those flights

 

There is only one answer: all Hanfstaengl’s activities were directed to persuade Hitler to be friends with England and the USA and for that purpose he was bringing Hitler closer to the strong people of the world. Even Fьhrer’s failure to appear at the meeting did not intervene the British politician from discussing some very delicate issues. With whom? With Hanfstaengl. “Tell me what your boss thinks about the alliance between your country, France and England?”1 — asked Churchill.

 

Hanfstaengl, E. Hitler. The Missing Years. P. 202.

 

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And why on earth did an old fox Winston come to Germany? Maybe to find out who would be in the head of Germany in six months?

Hitler’s good friend made many more good favours for him. For example, in February 1934 without notifying Fьhrer he went to Benito Mussolini. The purpose of the trip of the modest press secretary was to push duce to stabilization of relationships. As Hanfstaengl told Mussolini “something must be wrong when such complications stand between our two fascist states”1. As we know from the history it was the time when the two dictators were moving towards each other. We should only wonder about one detail: how Hanfstaengl achieved to be received by the head of Italy? Is every German occurring on the territory of their country got treatment with Chianti and got to meet Mussolini? The rank of our hero was not so high to get there.

But Hanfstaengl’s connections were truly fantastic. If you have an idea that all these breath-taking memoirs were written by Putzi following the image of baron von Mьnchhausen and all his memoirs are simple invention, you would be quite mistaken. Because if the statement about the visit to Mussolini is difficult to verify, there still exist some “concrete reinforced” evidences of the incredible powers of Ernst Hanfstaengl. After he had done so much for the Reich, he suddenly left Germany in 1937. Meaning that he secretly left the country because he supposedly had conflict with Hitler’s surroundings and felt threat to his life.

 

Where did our hero go? To his other home — America. It appeared that in America he had another good friend, his Harvard classmate — president of the USA Franklin Delano Roosevelt! Our German hero worked for Hitler in the position of the press secretary of foreign affairs of the party, so what? In the United States Putzi laid wreaths to the memorials ... with eagles and swastika, so what?

 

During the World War II Hanfstaengl was working... as president Roosevelt’s counsel!2

 

As an expert on the Nazi Germany he was working under arrest, that is under guard. He was under the guard of the sergeant of the American Army Egon Hanfstaengl. A namesake? No, he wasn’t. He was the son timely rescued from Germany and sent to guard his farther under personal order of the American president! This was the friendship which lasted exactly until

 

Hanfstaengl, E. Hitler. The Missing Years. P. 259–261.

 

Shirer, W. Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. P. 39.

 

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Nazi consolidated its forces. There was no further need to direct or give advice: the war for which Hitler was so required, for which Hanfstaengl worked so much, was not far away. Or maybe simply the contract was over? It is a really dark story just as the one about Hitler coming to power.

Nevertheless, let’s return to Russia. After leaving the Western partners without the spoils at the Genoa Conference and after breaking through the diplomatic isolation by means of the Treaty of Rapallo, Lenin seemed to be completely exhausted. The 52 year old Vladimir Ilyich had a stroke. It happened in May 1922. This was the first time when the issue on succes-sor rose. Practically Lenin appointed nobody after himself and the strokes that followed the first one did not allow him to fully govern the country. It resulted in the beginning of struggle for the Lenin’s heritage between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. The struggle unrolled in unstable economic and political conditions: In 1922 the transfer from the New Economic Policy and the next step in “collection of the Russian lands” — establishment of USSR started in the country.

 

The date of Lenin’s death knew every single person in the Soviet Union: January 21, 1924. However there is another date just as important forunderstanding of fascism origins but hardly anyone remembers it1.

The interrelation between these two events cannot be left unnoticeable. England waited until Lenin died and only after that acknowledged the Soviet Union2. The matter was not in the non-acceptance of communism by the heads of Britain. The matter was in the principal position not to deal with the one who lied to them. The one who was sent to destroy the country and transfer it under governance of the West and who had fulfilled the first task but rejected to fulfill the second. In Genoa he demonstrated once again that he could perform political “somersaults” just as good as his Brit-ish “friends”. Such issues as establishment of the diplomatic relations were

 

It was 1 February 1924. On that day the United Kingdom officially acknowledged USSR.

Right after the patron, the vassals also started acknowledging USSR: on 7 February 1924 — Italy where Benito Mussolini was the Prime Minister, on 13 February — Norway, on 25 February — Austria, on 8 March — Greece, on 15 March — Sweden, on 18 June — Denmark, on 6 July — Albania, on 19 July — China, on 1 August — Mexico, on 28 October 1924 — France. The last in this “acknowledgement order” was Japan, it happened on 20 January 1925, while the United States acknowledged USSR on in 1933.

 

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not done within one week. Consultations were in the active phase before the death of the leader. And acknowledgement of USSR in nine days after Lenin’s passing away was quite a direct and unambiguous hint at which political course of the USSR would find understanding. Lenin’s “leaving” gave a wonderful opportunity to fix those problems that his sharp mind created for the Anglo-Saxon. And that situation had to be fixed by Trotsky. All the hopes were placed on him.

 

It is now the correct time to return to ideological disagreements be-tween Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky, disagreement between the theory of constructing the socialism in one country and principal impossibility to do it. What is it — the construction of the new social structure? It is struggle, blood, civil war, sacrifices and devastation. Trotsky and Stalin had almost no disagreements in this issue. But the clash was over and it was time to restore the country. And this is where disagreements began. Stalin thought that to construct socialism in the USSR new factories, plants and railways had to be build. Socialism was supposed to improve the life of a working person. There was such a need to build kindergartens, schools and librar-ies. Socialism was aimed at eliminating illiteracy and ignorance. Sources were supposed to be contributed to improvement of the infrastructure, to construction of health resorts for working people. The purpose was not only to restore Russia but to improve it.

 

What did Trotsky offer? Socialism is impossible in one, separate Russia. Thus such large -scale construction was senseless from his point of view. Why would you need to build a roof without laying a foundation! And the foundation of the happy life in Russia could be only the world revolution. The revolution had to be performed and then deal with everything else. That meant no kindergartens and resorts. Nothing is needed after all other than financing of the world revolution movement and establishing of the strong army that would bring sunrise to the whole world on the edge of the blade. According to Trotsky such permanent revolution had to be exported all the time. What did it mean? It meant that at any moment USSR could attack any other country at its choice and discretion of comrade Trotsky. And at the choice of his foreign friends, those to whom Leon Trotsky sent the “railway” funds.

 

The situation was far from harmless. If Trotsky had won, all the county’s resources would be spent for establishing the threat for the surrounding

 

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world1. Therefore comrade Trotsky gave his supervisors from the British and American intelligence services a good reason to achieve the destruc-tion of USSR through war. That is a reason for another military defeat of the Russian army and for creating a magnificent cause for country’s occupation. Who would accuse the West of the aggression if USSR was getting ready to attack? Nobody, everybody would only applaud. Besides the theory of revolution export would enable the United Kingdom with our own hands and with the blood of our own soldiers to create tension in the required territories of the world. The Persian Shah doesn’t want to grant England oil? The Red Army would bring revolution to Iran, would make a mess and later the white and innocent Englishmen would come and save the Persians from the brutal communists. And take the oil as a thank you note.

 

It is very appropriate to cite one of the statements of Joseph Stalin: “Op-position thinks that the issue on construction of socialism in USSR has only the theoretical pursuit. That is not correct. That is a complete delusion”2. Decision in regards of the course that the country would choose really de-termined its further practical actions. And those actions were completely opposite. If Stalin won, the country would be independent and restoration would begin, if Trotsky took advantage, the country would be at the edged of the next “October” and thousands of the Russian men might fall dead on the battle fields trying to set on fire Europe and Asia.

 

And the main thing: if Trotsky’s ideas triumphed over, USSR would have no allies at all! Because there are no other socialistic countries inthe world and all the capital countries were our enemies a priori! And that meant that the Treaty of Rapallo that was so dangerous for England would die away.

 

The first large collision between Stalin and Trotsky happened in January 1923 because of the mentioned above occupation of Ruhr by the French. Trotsky called upon the support of the communists who as we well re-member arranged the uprising in Hamburg in October 1923. That meant

 

Rezun-Suvorov attributes such brutal aggression to USSR of the Stalin period, thus, explaining the mechanism of the World War II. While such concept lost in the battle together with its author Trotsky and Stalin never used it. At the VII congress of Communist International in 1935 it was officially declared that the world revolution was not prepared any more.

 

Stalin, J. V. Collected works. V. 9. P. 37.

 

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to sacrifice friendship with Germany for the idea of the world revolution. Friendship with the Germans was not only parties, handshakes and smiles of the diplomats. Friendship was also equipment, machines, optics that other than Germany nobody supplied to our country. USSR badly needed all the above. That is why Stalin was absolutely against the intervention. And there was no intervention.

In January 1924 Lenin died and the battle for Russia came out into the open phase. It was yet unclear who was going to win. Quite possible that another war might be required for Russia’s destruction. For that purpose there had to be the country that would start such war. And such country needed a relevant leader.

Trial over the Nazi putschists took place in February-March 1924. Hitler was sentenced to 5 years of prison. Without losing any time he started dictat-ing his future book Mein Kampf to Rudolf Hess in which as we remember he was celebrating the advantages of the England and Germany alliance for the both countries. You are not surprised, are you? He was supposed to be placed in the cell, he was supposed to be re-educated but he was not supposed to write books! But the prison for Fьhrer was like a resort. Good feeding, numerous visitors that took about 6 hours per day1.

 

Hitler was provided with the most favourable conditions. “The place of confinement looked like a Deli store. The grocery store with flower, fruit and wine departments with large inventory could be opened in his prison cell”2, — this is how Ernst Hanfstaengl described Hitler’s place of imprison-ment. By the way the American came to that prison with a visit not because of the sentimental feelings. He was getting ready to drag Hitler out of that difficult situation. Hitler’s manuscript, the masterpiece, was secretly car-ried out from the prison and was already typed in the printing facility of Vцlkischer Beobachter but the Nazi newspaper had numerous invoices payable. That invoices had to paid, otherwise all that had been done, would be all for nothing.

 

“I paid some of the invoices and confirmed some others, that was enough to keep the newspaper operating”3, — wrote Hitler’s “kind ge-nius” in his memoirs. Pro-English Hitler’s ideas expressed in the book

 

Fest, I. Hitler. V. 2. P. 5.

 

Hanfstaengl, E. Hitler. The Missing Years. P. 119.

 

Ibid. P. 122.

 

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belonged to Hanfstaengl in many aspects and it would be a pity if the book had not been published. And that did not really cost some great money, some simple trifles. Instead of five years of Hitler’s imprisonment he spent there only thirteen months!1The support was not significant butplayed the crucial role...

Hitler walked free from jail and the next financial miracle occurred right away. Later on Hitler was miraculously boosting German’s economy but first of all the financial miracle happened to him personally. The finished manuscript of his book Four Years of Struggle against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice was published under the new name Mein Kampf. The issue ofthe book would not be very big and the interest from the readers would be even less. In 1926 the second volume of Mein Kamp went out but it did not change the core of the matter. The first volume was sold in 1925 in the amount of 10 thousand copies, in 1926 in the amount of 7 thousand copies. In 1927 both volumes found only 5,607 buyers and in 1928 even fewer — only 3,0152.

 

It is clear that with such number of issues or with such “sales” as we currently call it the writer could not survive. However the young “writer” Adolf Hitler lives a rather well-to-do life. It seemed that he had no other sources of income. But it did not prevent him from living a free and easy life. After coming out of prison Hitler spent only half a year in his former old flat in Munich, since 1925 he was renting and later he bought a villa in the Alps, in the notorious Obersalzberg. Besides he bought a Mercedes-compressor of the latest model something that not every writer could afford and for Germany of that time it was unusually expensive purchase3. Hitler’s lifestyle started acquiring the gloss that was so typical of him later: good clothes, money, a car and a driver. Tax police of Weimar Republic was quite interested in the sources of the unknown income of Fьhrer that gave him an opportunity to live luxuriously right after his imprisonment. Responding to the tax authority request Hitler replied: “Neither in 1924 nor in the first quarter of 1925 I received any income at all. I paid for living expenses with the loans that I took in the bank. Money that I spent for the car is from the same source”.

 

Hitler was in prison from November 12, 1923 to December 20, 1924.

 

Fest, I. Hitler. V. 2. P. 82.

 

Ibid.

 

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The correspondence between Hitler and tax authorities is the subject for a separate story. “My personal demands are limited to the very simple things, I do not drink alcohol or smoke tobacco, I eat in the cheapest restaurants and other than the apartment rent I have no expenses that the income of writer-publicist could not cover”1, — responded Adolf Hitler to the tax authorities. As in the section “profession” Fьhrer indicated in particular: Writer-publicist. The only income indicated in his tax declarations was the income from selling books as was due for the writer. However Hitler’s debit and credit did not agree: the expenses were much over the income which gave rise to questions from the tax inspectors. Fьhrer used loans as the explanation; he insisted that he took loans to make purchases. However the sources which he used to discharge the loans are obscure as of today

Let us return to the USSR again. I do not want to describe all the details of the battle between the two communistic leaders. Though such wording is not quite correct. Practically within the frames of one and the same political organization there were two completely different parties. The party aimed at restoration and construction of the new Russia, and the party striving to sacrifice the country to the interests of the world revolution, or if speaking directly to the interests of the West.

Hey historians! Where are you? I offer you a wonderful subject for a thesis. Examine the coincidence between the dates of NSDAP and the Communistic party and a lot of facts would become clear. We will only note the most outrageous coincidence. At different times opposition of the Stalin policy made up various programs. They could be united by one thing: if the party accepted such program nothing would be left of the country. All these programs sounded very pretty, for example, the famous platform of 83. Its essence was in the following: Let there be the super-industrialization through higher taxes imposed on the middle-class farmworkers, price increase on consumer goods and withdrawal of floating assets from cooperation. Price increase on consumer goods would result in the corresponding price in-crease on farm produce and decrease of ruble’s financial soundness, while withdrawal of the significant part of floating assets from cooperation would contribute to strengthening of the private capital in trading. It is clear that imposing higher taxes on farmers could not become the solid foundation for the authorities. All that would only imply weakening of the state and

 

Fest, I. Hitler. V. 2. P. 82.

 

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decline of the living standards. We had chance to observe within the period from 1985 to 1991 what happens to the state that takes measures which result in the dramatic decline of the living standards of population. Let us compare the dates again, when did the supporters of Trotsky establish that political platform?

 

Turns out it happened in May 1927. And on May 27, 1927 the United Kingdom broke any diplomatic relationships with the USSR! Can you believe in such a coincidence?

 

For our survey the very fact of such fast breaking up of the diplomatic relations is important: in February 1924 we acknowledged the USSR and in May 1927 they don’t want to know us anymore. Why? Simply because Stalin’s victory over Trotsky was becoming very evident already and the United Kingdom was not ashamed to demonstrate its position. The hint was quite transparent: should Stalin’s political course take over, the consequences for the Soviet Union had to be very sad.

 

There is nothing to be surprised about. Actions of the internal opposi-tion of any power in Russia are always surprisingly synchronized with the events on the international arena.

 

It was not the organizers of the Dissenters’ March who decided to proceed with the actions right on the eve of international summits and meetings. Such “surprising” coincidences started from Herzen’s times and the times of the People’s Freedom party, that is, from the middle of the XIX century.

 

Reasons for breaking up the relations between England and the Soviet Union were also interesting. In 1926 England was shaken by the workers’ strike. It was suppressed very cruelly. On June 12, 1926 the British gov-ernment brought the note of protest to the government of USSR which informed that the United Kingdom “could not pass in silence the action of the Soviet authorities that consisted in the special permit to transfer funds to the Great Britain that were aimed to support the strike”. The response of the Soviet Union cabinet read that it could not prohibit the workers of the country to provide the altruistic support to the English workers. As a matter of fact the USSR transferred money using the so-called non-governmental organizations which currently are quite fairly under the stricter control of the Russian state. In this regard the reaction of the United Kingdom to USSR’s steps was quite significant.

 

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Something that they are allowed to do we are prohibited to do. That is such a “sincere” belief of the western countries. They are the ones who could finance our opposition through funds and organizations. When we are trying to do the same there are no limits for indignation of the Anglo-Saxon. Just in the same manner when they do not allow to pump up foreign money for their politicians and it is referred to as normal. No sooner did we crack down the non-commercial organization, they were full of indignation again.

 

However the heads of the USSR cabinet did not yield to such blackmail. On November 14, 1927 Trotsky and Zinoviev were expelled from the party. Because on 7 November the opposition was trying to arrange in Moscow and Leningrad “alternative” demonstration that looked more like the at-tempts to start the new coup d’йtat. Stalin’s response was to expel Trotsky from the party. Later at the meeting of politburo it was decided to deport him from the capital.

 

On January 10, 1928 Trotsky was deported to the far-away city Verny(contemporary Alma-Ata). His journey was quite convenient: Leon Trotsky had a separate carriage in his possession, other than him and the members of his family, there was placed his entire archive, the library and all required personal belonging (including hunting inventory and the dog)1.

Of course, the leader of the non -performed world revolution did not enjoy the deportation. Yet for Hitler and Nazis the year of Trotsky’s depor-tation becomes on the contrary the beginning of the extraordinary growth. “Hitler’s successes and the success of his doctrines can be followed up very easily. In 1928 he had only 12 mandates in the Reichstag. In 1930 this figure was already 107 and in 1932 — 230”2.

 

NSDAP took off very sharply in becoming the major nationalistic force (at that moment only on the territory of the southern lands) absorbing the great number of small nationalistic allies and groups. Later the period of growth within the whole Germany started. The last evidences that described the marches of the storm-troops rather unflattering refer to the period of 1927 (that is before Trotsky’s deportation): “They were wearing the cheap and shabby uniform, and the truck that they arrived with did not look his best and was more like the outdated rattletrap”3.

 

Abramovich, I. L. Memories and Opinions. M., 2004. V. 1. P. 99.

 

Churchill, W. World War II V. 1. P. 43.

 

Seward, D. Napoleon and Hitler. P. 83.

 

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Everything is so interconnected in this world! Sometimes it is just incredible! Who would think that no sooner Leon Trotsky departed to Alma- Ata, the allowances and the uniform of the fascist storming troops would improve. You do not believe in such coincidence? Go and find de-scriptions of their marches like the one that took place in 1928 and was referred to above!

However the really crucial point after which Hitler uncontrollably and dramatically went high to the top of Germany was in the first quarter of 1929. Again, for another time, Hitler’s movement went through some favourable changes. For a start, as usual, Hitler himself. His biographers wrote that in 1929 a section on Loans Interest disappeared from his tax declaration forever1. Another financial miracle occurred in Hitler’s life and he was no debtor any longer! At the same time he moved again and was living in the nine-room apartment in Prinzregentstrasse, in the district for well -to-do bourgeois2. He had a big escort: helpers, guards, drivers, cooks and even gardeners3.

 

Not that long ago as in the beginning of 1929 Fьhrer’s deputy Rudolf Hess was personally travelling around Germany accumulating funds, He distributed to German industrial dealers two sets of photographs: in pic-tures of the first set there were demonstrations of the communists, while on the other were marching soldiers4. The words following up the pictures were very simple: these are destruction forces and we are the order. But SA was poor and badly needed the uniform and equipment. In other words, it needed money. Money was supposed to come from those who had it and who were interested not to lose everything that they possessed.

 

Hitler himself on the contrary slowed down all his activities. “In 1927 he gave fifty six public speeches, while two years later he reduced this number to twenty nine”5. Was he tired? No, but the propaganda result could then be already achieved by other means and there was no need any more to strain his voice at the meetings. At that moment money replaced Hitler in his campaign. And newspapers. I am not talking about the Nazi press at

 

Fest, I. Hitler. V. 2. P. 101.

 

Ibid.

 

Melnikov, D., Chernaya, N. Criminal Number One. M., 1982 P. 97.

 

Ibid. P. 140.

 

Fest, I. Hitler. V. 2. P. 87.

 

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the moment. For some reason particularly in 1929 the owner of the media empire Alfred Gugenberg established alliance with Hitler. The official ver-sion was that it was done to unite in the joint confrontation against the new plan of “Germany’s Renaissance” (Young Plan). The real reason was to let Hitler free in the open environment. Numerous newspapers started writ-ing about him. Radio mentioned his name. It was the time when the great number of Germans found out about their tireless leader for the first time. Hitler’s promotion was so active that within two years the number of his supporters rose by seven times1.

 

 

Hitler is getting ready to inspect his storm troops, Nuremberg, 1927. Comrade Trotsky was not yet deported from USSR and not yet departed to Alma-Ata.

 

And while Leon Trotsky was continuing his battle for power, soldiers’ uniform left much to be desired. Nazis did not get the money yet, the golden shower would occur for Hitler and NSDAP right after Trotsky’s deportation

 

While some very short time in the past due to the lack of finances Hit-ler had to cancel the congress planned for 1928 and instead he convened the meeting of party heads in Munich in August of the same year (he had

 

At election on May 20, 1928 Nazis got 2,6 % of votes while on September 14, 1930 — already 18,3 %.

 

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to save money: he could afford to update the uniform for the soldiers but could not yet afford to arrange a real congress!). Historian have an explana-tion for that too: they say it was “due to rebellious attitude in the party”1. But we can understand very well that reduction of financial allowances is the very favourable environment for rebellious moods and grumble. With the money any internal problems in the party could be easily solved2. But Hitler did not have money at that time. He invested all of it in the next pre-election campaign3.

 

He invested the money but lost: On May 20, 1928 NSDAP got only 2,6 % of votes and turned on the ninth position. So who was sponsoring the political outsiders? Only those who really needed them. And already on August 3–4, 1929 the greatest congress of Nazis in the history took place in Nuremberg. Thirty specially ordered trains delivered 200 thousand party members4. 60 thousand storm-troop soldiers marched in front of Fьhrer. All this was organized by the political organization that in summer 1928 didn’t have money to convene the congress and later lost the elections? Who was this kind fairy who helped the Nazi?

 

The name of the fairy was the intelligence services of England, the USA and France. Almost entire future “anti-Hitler coalition” which would be driving to the grave the terrible beast which they themselves had fed and brought to life. Judging by the dates that we took into consideration the next financial miracle for that political organization was supposed to occur from the beginning to the mid of 1929. We have already witnessed that Hitler always obtained money when events in USSR were going con-trary to the West’s scenario. What did happen in our country during that period of time?

 

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