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Creators of Nazi Ideology, P1 Hitler asserted in a January 1942 conversation that Eckart had shone "like the polar star" for him. (1) In August 1921 on Hitler's personal invitation, Eckhart became editor-in-chief of the National Socialist publishing organ. As a result Eckhart increasingly passed the editorship his own two newspapers “Auf gut deutsch” and the “Voekischer Beobachter” over to Leading Nazi ideologist Rosenberg. And Rosenberg de facto took over the leadership of the the Voelkischer Beobachter on May 10, 1923, when he noted that he had assumed the editorship of the paper, which came out under his name. (2) In a first accurate study about the financial backers the early Nazis and A. Hitler, Wolfgang Zdral, Der finanzierte Aufstieg des Adolf Hitler’s” (Sept. 2002) dedicates a whole chapter to Dietrich Eckart. The seizure of power of Benito Mussolini's Fascist movement in Italy helped to galvanize the increasing militancy of the Vereinigte twerlandische Verbande Bayerns, as demonstrated in an article that Scheubner-Richter wrote in the November 1, 1922 edition of Aufbau-Korrespondenz, "The Fascists as Masters in Italy." Scheubner-Richter stressed that Communism could only be defeated through its own methods, noting. "that which the German Freikorps did half-heartedly was done passionately in Italy." He praised Mussolini for demonstrating that "bold personalities" could master a "scourge" that held the world in fear. While he asserted that pan-Germans could see "no friend" in Fascism since difficult days lay ahead for the ethnic Germans of the South Tyrol under Italian rule, he expressed the wish that the -principle that the Fascists represent" would also become "universal and self-evident in Germany. In the period of Hitler's close collaboration with Aufbau in the early 1920's, not only did Aufbau in general and Scheubner-Richter and Biskupskii in particular guide Hitler's political decision making in favor of combined National Socialist/White 6mlgr~ operations to overthrow the Weimar Republic and the Soviet Union, Aufbau ideologues in conjunction with the volkisch publicist Dietrich Eckart influenced Hitler's anti-Semitism. Hitler further revered Scheubner-Richter by charging his widow, Mathilde, with creating the National Socialist Party Archives in August 1926 in collaboration with Heinrich Himmler. Scheubner-Richter's activities in Aufbau also eventually helped to pave the way for friendly relations between National Socialist Germany and Hungary. Soon after Hitler became the German Chancellor in January 1933, the night wing Hungarian Minister-President Gyula Gombos ordered his ambassador in Berlin to visit the Fuhrer as soon as possible: “on my behalf. pass my best regards and wishes.... Recall I that ten years ago, on the basis of our common principles and ideology, we were In contact via Mr. Scheubner-Richter....Tell Hitler my firm belief that the two countries have to cooperate in foreign and domestic Policy.” Already in the fall of 1922, Scheubner-Richter served as Hitler's chief advisor on foreign policy matters and as one of his closest counselors In general. 134 A Munich Police report from November 1922 argued that since the primary, National Socialist foreign policy advisor represented the interests of a White Russian group, he was bound to act according to the desires of his constituency, and it was questionable if he could mesh White Russian interests with nationalist German concerns. The report noted that the steenng of National Socialist foreign policy through a representative of exile Russian interests gave rise to serious reservations both in Germany and abroad. For his part. Walther Nicolai, the head of the anti-Bolshevik intelligence service that collaborated with Aufbau, noted the great degree to which Scheubner-Richter influenced Hitler's political ideas. He also observed that Hitler had his home away from home at Scheubner-Richter's house and honored Mrs. Mathilde Scheubner- Richter like his mother, while she adored him. Nicolai valued Scheubner-Richter highly as a clever and politically talented man, but he nevertheless feared that he lacked the necessary grasp of German conditions due to his formative experiences in the Russian Empire. In their foreign policy, Scheubner-Richter and his indispensable colleague Biskupskil called for a Joint Aufbau/National Socialist policy of re-establishing a Habsburg dynasty in Austria, with Colonel Karl Bauer, a political terrorist and Aufbau's contact man in Vienna, working towards this goal. Aufbau leadership organized combat groups in Austria under the direction of officers from Bavaria and worked to include the South Tyrol in the Austrian state. The next goal of Aufbau represented the reestablishment of the Wittelsbach dynasty in Bavaria as a step towards giving Germany a monarchical state system. After this, Aufbau policy planned to bring about the union of Austria and Hungary under the Habsburg crown. Finally as we have seen in the previous two articles in this series on SESN, Aufbau foreign policy that set the tone of National Socialist strategy sought to detach huge regions from the Soviet Union and to establish friendly governments there. Specifically, Aufbau envisioned the establishment of Baltic, Southern, and Siberian states in addition to a rump Russia. The Southern state was to take the form of a Black Sea League under Ukrainian leadership including the Don, Kuban. and Terek Cossack nations, and it represented the most important of the planned official Party philosopher. Before the establishment of the “Aufbau” Vereinigung in late 1920, the collaboration between Eckart and Rosenberg in the context of Eckhart’s Newspaper In Plain German.” Formed the crux of the fusion between voelkisch-redemptive German and White Russian world conspiratonial-apocalyptic anti-Semitic thought, where "positive" notions of Germanic spiritual and racial superiority fused with more negative visions of impending "Jewish Bolshevik" destruction supported by Jewish finance capitalists. From November 1919 until the summer of 1920, the scope of Hitler's anti-Semitic arguments broadened considerably, a change that be attributed to his early ideological apprenticeship under Dietrich Eckart and his assistant Rosenberg.' Eckart, who, incidentally, cited Vinberg's Bolshevik atrocities, possessed a mystic nature that easily seized upon the White Russian theme of "Jewish Bolshevism" in an apocalyptic framework.(3) The Voelkischer Beobachter praised Eckart on what turned out to be his final birthday for serving as the "champion and intellectual forerunner of the National Socialist movement.(4) This assertion represented not empty praise. but an apt description of Eckart's key role in the genesis of National Socialist ideology. Hitler later made the remark that the early Voelkischer Beobachter might as well have been titled the "Munchner Beobachter-Baltic Edition.(5) Dietrich Eckart’s colaboraters, Vinberg and the leader of Aufbau, Scheubner-Richter. consistently upheld the concept of the secret collaboration of finance capitalism and Bolshevism in the hands of world Jewry. An article in the February 1922 edition of Atiffiats-Korrespondenz, for instance. used Rosenbergian language in asserting that "there has never been a greater mockery or a greater world-fraud: the alliance of the red and the golden Internationals at the expense of every national economy and national policy.”(6) Scheubner-Richter wrote an essay in a similar vein for a September 1923 edition of Atilbazi-Korrespondenz, "The Boishevization of Germany," which appeared with a few editorial changes in the Voelkischer Beobachter as "Germany's Bolshevization." He argued that "French chauvinism as the bailiff of international finance," like "Russian Bolshevism," in reality represented a "tool in the hands of the Jewish International.(7) The above thus placed Germany in the center of a worldwide conspiracy led by Jewish high finance that manifested itself in the twin threats of the French/Belgian occupation of the Ruhr in the West and Bolshevik subversion from the East. 1) Adolf Hitler. Hitler's Table Talk 1941-44. His Private Conversations, trans. Norman Cameron and R. K Stevens. second ed-, 1973, 217. 2) Voelkischer Beobachter, March 10, 1923, 1. 3) Dietrich Eckart, "Die Schlacht auf den Katalaunischen Feldern.- Auf gut Deutsch, February 20. 1920. 4) “Dietrich Eckart”, Voelkischer Beobachter. March 23. 1923. 5. 5) See, for instance, the February 17 and 22. 1923 editions of the Voelkischer Beobachter, also; Hitler Table Talk 649. 6) "Russische Landwirtschaft." Aufbau-Korrespondenz. February 24, 1922. 2. 7)
Scheubner- Richter. "Die BoIschewisierung Deutschlands.” Aufbau-Korrespondenz.
September 21. 1923. 2: Scheubner- Richter. "Deutschlands Bolschewisierung,”
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