A letter to the beloved young men

Stanisław Barszczak, A letter of brother Jerome to Timothy, still a young man, second part…

For young Hitler, German nationalism quickly became an obsession. And to all this came the enchantment of German operas the composer Richard Wagner. Hitler saw the first opera of the German at the age of twelve, and he was immediately attracted to her Germanic music, pagan myths, tales of ancient kings and knights and their glorious battles against the hated enemies. For young Hitler, the fight with her father was about to end. In January 1903, Hitler’s father died suddenly of pulmonary hemorrhage. As I said at the Benedictine school in Lambach, Hitler showed a great interest in religion. He was fascinated by the form of Catholic liturgy: acoustics of temples, strict hierarchy, order, processions with torches, singing and mysticism. But already in Lambach, Hitler learned to bend reality to his own needs.
He learned what he wanted, and what he did not get was sabotaged. He had to make up for lack of learning as an adult. In 1606 Adolf, aged 16, graduated from high school. He was not worried about his poor academic performance. Meanwhile, Hitler’s mother, suffering from breast cancer, was getting closer to death every day. Hitler, very attached to her, could not imagine her leaving. He told the guardian to apply Klara a modern, untested remedy. The drug prolonged the woman’s life, but he filled them with suffering. It has become the worst thing, for a child’s life could be. On December 21, 1906, Klara died (see,http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/boyhood.htm). Immediately after the death of his mother Adolf Hitler went to Vienna to get to the Academy of Fine Arts. However, his watercolor landscapes did not meet with the recognition of a group of professors and he was taken into the care of fate. Arriving in the Habsburg capital, he hoped for a scholarship, a student apartment, and he was waiting for wandering in the streets of Vienna and the occasional activities he was called to survive. The money has ended quickly. Hitler spent the next years in night shelters, sometimes he slept in the open air. As he later wrote: Five years of misery and wandering in Vienna… Five years during which I earned first as a student and later as an unknown painter. Hunger was my faithful companion. He did not leave me a moment. During the greatest poverty, Adolf benefited from charitable foundations. During the First World War Hitler fought as a soldier of the Bavarian regiment belonging to the German army. He took part in battles including at Ypres and Bapaume. In the first of these he won the Iron Cross for courage, in the second he was blinded by gas. After ‘recovering his eyes’ for half a year, he was in the hospital. As a soldier, he was considered a volunteer pattern for unsafe tasks. However, he only professed the rank of corporal, and his superiors, interestingly, argued that he lacked leadership skills. While in the hospital, Hitler learned about the war and ceasefire. He regarded the capitulation of Germany as a betrayal. Adolf Hitler deepened his knowledge of history, began working in the press, graduated from anti-Marxist propaganda and joined the German Workers’ Party. It happened in 1919. Hitler found himself in his element, had a mission and meant something. He quickly gained confidence and took over leadership in the Nazi Party NSDAP, formed from the workers’ party to which he belonged. He met the first among his infamous later helpers: Rudolf Hess, Hermann Göring and Ernst Röhm. From the insignificant party magazine ‘Völkischer Beobachter’ bought in December 1920 by the NSDAP, in February 1923, he made a national daily newspaper. This organ for the next 25 years was a pillar of Nazi propaganda. Adolf Hitler was already the leader of a small party gathering former soldiers and people who could not find themselves in post-war reality. Putsch (see, French coup d’état in the state) on 8-9 November 1923, organized with the help of Marshal Erich Ludendorff, was suppressed by the police and the army. The attempt to take over the rule in Bavaria, and in the long-run Germany ended in failure. Hitler stood before the court. Paradoxically, it became an opportunity for him to emerge in politics – the judges, positively disposed towards him, allowed him to make many hours of tirades, calling for the rebuilding of the power of Germany and the destruction of the Versailles order. The leader of the dissolved NSDAP received a mild sentence and at the beginning of 1925 was already at large, although under German law he was threatened with life imprisonment for attempting to overthrow by the state system. He used his stay in prison to write “Mein Kampf”, in which he included his anti-Semitic and national-radical views. In 1925, 10,000 copies were sold, in 1932 it increased to 90,000, and a year later, when Hitler came to power, he reached a million. At that time, as a copyright holder, he became a millionaire. In autumn 1929, the speculative bubble burst on the New York Stock Exchange. The greatest economic crisis of all times has begun. Millions of people lost their wealth and work, and the standard of living drastically decreased. One of the most affected countries was Germany. The crisis allowed Hitler to spread his wings. The populist slogans quickly took him to the top of politics. His party after the elections in September 1930 received 107 seats to the Reichstag and became the first and then the first most numerous faction in the parliament (after the creation in 1931 of an alliance with the German right-wing group of the so-called Harzburg Front). After the elections favorable for NSDAP, President Paul von Hindenburg, at the end of January 1933, entrusted Hitler with the office of the chancellor. Using the arson of the Reichstag building, Hitler persuaded the deputies to adopt a law granting him special powers of attorney. From then on, he could rule without parliament, and Germany became a state in which the state of emergency was in force – officially remained such a state until the end of Nazi rule. In the summer of 1933, all parties except the NSDAP were banned. After the death of von Hindenburg in August 1934, Hitler did not conduct a new presidential election, considering that the presidential office was suspended. By virtue of the day passed earlier, the Act merged the offices of the president and the chancellor, taking over their competences as the Führer – the commander and chancellor of the Reich. Adolf Hitler became the commander in chief of the Reichswehr and took over the full power in the country. He implemented the “Act to help the nation and the state in need”, called in the German historiography the act on powers of attorney. Under this power, he became the most important person in the state, taking over legislative power, because the government he managed could now approve the laws without the consent of the Reichstag. In September 1935, he officially sanctioned anti-Semitic policies by adopting Nuremberg Laws, which placed Jews outside of society. But he had already started a bloody trial with political opponents, hated social groups or nations, creating the first concentration camp. It was established in March 1933 in Dachau, north of Munich. In March 1938, the Nazi army entered Austria. In April, the Anschluss new territory was officially sanctioned by a referendum. It was supported by more than 99 percent of the inhabitants of Austria voting. Then, in the wake of the Munich Agreement, he occupied the Sudeten Country of Sudety, which he belonged to Czechoslovakia, and in March 1939 he partitioned Czechoslovakia and occupied Klaipeda in Lithuania. On September 1, 1939, he launched an invasion of Poland, which gave rise to the Second World War. He died on April 30, 1945 in a bunker in Berlin due to suicide. The Germans loved their leader so much that the Nazis did not even have to adhere to the falsification of the election. Opponents of the dictatorship were stuck in dull apathy. And hard opposition is hard to even call a couch. Ewa Braun was so devoted to the leader of the Third Reich that she swallowed a capsule with cyanide the day after she married him. But was she always faithful to the Führer? Who was able to make her betray the greatest madman of the twentieth century? Paperwork was avoiding like fire. The contractors and subordinates were tired of long hours of monologues. He was capricious: he handed flowers to one, and arrested others elsewhere. Like many of the worst bosses, he had the feeling that he was allowed everything. Also in the office. For years, in the cold eyes of Adolf, no one could see the prophecy of crematorium furnaces. Could a “peace-house painter” become a mad killer of nations? Many were deluded that it was impossible. But not Poles! We’ve understood the Hitler’s mentality much earlier than the rest of the world, I ponder. A cruel father, overprotective mother and a small sociopath, forcing obedience on colleagues. It could not end well. But probably no one thought that the difficult childhood of little Adolfek from Braunau would have such a tragic consequences for the world … Pictures from Hitler’s participation in the Mass celebrated in Berlin after the death of Marshal Józef Piłsudski were preserved. Polish ambassador in Germany Józef Lipski greets Adolf Hitler on the steps of the Berlin Cathedral of Saint. Jadwiga just before the beginning of the funeral mass for the soul of Józef Piłsudski. The next picture shows Hitler sitting in front of the catafalque in the cathedral. After Marshall Pilsudski’s death, no national mourning was introduced in Germany. The Polish press from that period made it clear that the German chancellor issued an official mourning ordinance in force at the deaths of heads of state. It can not be denied that it was a nod to the Poles, because officially Pilsudski was only the minister of military affairs and general inspector of the armed forces now. The Hitler, however, ordered on 13 and 18 May to lower the banners to the half mast. What props do we keep from those years? Faithful replicas of two cars from the special train of the Reich Chancellor “Amerika” will enjoy the eyes of tourists in Jedlina-Zdrój near Wałbrzych. Like Pope Francis lamborghini car of today (let me say), the cabriolet, Hitler’s private limousine, from which he greeted the crowds cheering in honor of the victories of the Third Reich, was put up for sale… (a second part end)

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