Adolf Opposing Adolf
Herbert Kuhner
Hitler was aware of the legacy he was helping to undermine: he devoted part of a Nuremberg rally in 1937 to criticism of an overzealous party official who had declared the Masonic theme of Die Zauberflöte ideologically unacceptable. “Only a person lacking respect for his own nationality would condemn Mozart’s Zauberflöte because its text may be ideologically opposed to his own outlook,” he reprimanded Hitler also condemned as “grotesque” the “Aryanization” of operatic texts such as Carmen and Tosca. Tellingly, he declined to visit the Degenerate Music Exhibition organized by Hans Severus Ziegler in Düsseldorf in 1938 to expose the “triumph of arrogant Jewish impudence”.
- Peter Aspen: Orchestrating the Holocaust, Financial Times, Jan. 15/16, 2005, p. W7
Here was the Führer contradicting himself. After laying down the law, he may have had some slight compunctions and made some slight exceptions. His number one toady and henchman was a stickler who had no compunctions and made no exceptions. When Adolf vacillated, he was there to set things straight. When asked by his son and namesake Martin Jr. what National Socialism was all about, he replied, “Implementing the will of Adolf Hitler.” This also may have meant implementing it on Hitler, if necessary.
Posted: June 26th, 2009 under Polemics, Materialien, Dossier.
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Ich streichle lieber meinen Hund als Macht auszuüben.