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117. BAK, NL 1126/1, programme for the district Einwohnerwehr shooting
match of 3–5 December 1920 in Titmoning, Shooting results for ‘Himmler
from Fridolfing’.
118. BAK, NL 1126/12, 4 October and 28 November 1920, and 2 June 1921.
119. Ibid. 19 September and 4 October 1920, and 18 January 1921.
120. Ibid. 10 October 1921, and 20, 29 March and 24 June 1921.
121. Ibid. balance sheet from 2 April to10 July 1921.
122. Ibid. 14 May 1921.
123. This was his assessment of Pillars of Society and Brand (Leseliste nos. 60 and 65).
124. Leseliste no. 63, read 5–15 October.
125. Ibid. no. 60, read 3 September 1920.
126. Ibid. no. 65, read 20 October–3 November 1920.
He
gave up on Ibsen’s The
Pretenders (no. 79, read 2–12 February 1921).
127. Ibid. no. 62, read 26–30 September 1920, and no. 72, read 14/15 December
1920.
128. Ibid. no. 53, Kampf und Tod Karls XII. (Munich, 1917), read 16 August 1920.
129. Ibid. no. 90, read 23–6 May 1921.
130. Ibid. no. 67, read 1–12 December 1920.
131. Ibid. no. 92, read 20 June– 5 July 1921.
132. Ibid. no. 75, Heinrich Schierbaum, Reden der Nationalversammlung zu Frankfurt
a.Main (Leipzig, 1914).
133. Ibid. no. 58, Christian Meyer, Zur Erhebung Deutschlands 1813 bis 1814 (Mu-
nich, 1915), read 24–30 August 1920.
134.
Ibid.
no. 57, Julius Haupt, Die deu tsche Insel. Ein Gedenkbuch kriegsgefangener
Offiziere (Munich, 1920), read 25 – 8 August 1920.
135. Ibid. no. 77, Wider Kaiser und Reich (Munich, 1909), read 15–23 Januar y 1921.
136. Ibid. no. 78, Bankrott. Histori scher Roman (Munich, 1908), read 9–11 February
1921.
137. Ibid. no. 70, Der Teufel in der Schule. Volkserza
¨
hlung (Munich, 1908), read 20–1
December 1920, and no. 71, Die Su
¨
nde wider den Heiligen Geist (Munich,
1908), read 22–3 December 1920.
138. The change of location can be gathered from his correspondence with his
parents (BAK, NL 1126/12); in NL 1126/1 there is a copy of the reference
given him by the agricultural machinery facto ry, Vereinigte Fabrik en; cf. also
Smith, Himmler, 148.
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1.BAK,NL1126/3, the address is clear from the various documents in the same
file (among other things the membership card of the veterans’ association of the
Munich Technical University (Technische Hochschule)); Smith, Himmler, 149.
2. Ibid. 149 f.
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3. TB, e.g. 12, 15, and 20 January, 13 February, 3 March, 30 May, 20 and 27 June
1922.
4. BAK, NL 1126 /12, e.g. 21 November and 9 December 1921, and 20 January, 3
and 13 February, and 3 March 1922.
5.TB,16 January 1922.
6. BAK, NL 1126/12, e.g. 2 November 1921 and 1 February 1922.
7. Ibid. 2 November 1921, and 20 January, 21 February 1922.
8. TB, e.g. 1, 6, and 20 November 1921, and 22 January, 5, 12 February, 26
March, 28 May, 15 and 29 June 1922.
9. TB, among others 1, 2, 4, 5, 18, 27,
and 30 November 1921,
and 12, 14 January
and 26 March 1922; such examples are also mentioned in letters to his parents,
e.g. in BAK, NL 1126/12, 2 November 1921 and 20 January 1922.
10. TB, 9 November 1921.
11. TB, 17, 18 , and 21 November and 6 December 1921, and 13, 14, and 30
January, 28 February, 16 and 17 June 1922; Smith, Himmler, 151 f.
12. TB, among others 26 November 1921, and 11, 16, 18, 22, and 23 February, 1
and 28 June, and 4 July 1922. On his involvement in the relationship during his
second stay in Munich see also Smith, Himmler, 152.
13.
TB, 15 and 22 Janu
ary, 11 and 26 February 1922.
14. TB, 19 and 26 November 1921, and 20 February and 17 June 1922.
15. Thus on a trip to a meeting of the fraternity in Nuremberg he stayed with a
fellow member and accepted medical assistance from another (TB, 21 June
1922).
16. TB, 11 November 1921.
17. TB, 2 February 1922.
18. TB, 24 February 1922.
19. TB, 4 July 1922.
20.In1922 he was registered as a member of the war veter ans’ organization of the
Munich Technical University, of the German Touring Club, as well as of the
German Agricultural Society (BAK, NL 1126/3); he took part in a meeting of
the Alpine Club on 30 January 1922 (TB), he was admitted into the Officers’
Association on 10 February 1922 (ibid.). On his membership of associations see
also Smith, Himmler, 151.
21. 21 TB, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 24, and 28 November, 2 and 7 Decem
ber 1921,
and
30 January, 13 and 18 February, and 29 May 1922. On the dances see TB, 8, 9,
and 11 November 1921, and 31 January, 5, 17, 18, 27, and 28 February 1922;
Smith, Himmler, 151 f.
22. TB, 14 February and 6 June 1922 .
23. Thus on 1 July 1922, ‘chatted the time away’ with Alphons. On further lengthy
conversations with friends and acquaintances see TB, 4 and 9 November 1921 ,
and 22 February, 4 and 25 March 1922; Smith, Himmler, 150 f.
24. TB, 11 and 17 February 1922. There are similar descriptions in the entries for
26 January, 10 and 27 February 1922.
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25.TB,18 February 1922.
26.TB,21 June 1922.
27.TB,15 and 17 January, 14 and 28 February 1922.
28.TB,5 February 1922.
29.TB,1 March 1922.
30.TB,28 June, also 30 June and 1 July 1922.
31.TB,6 March 1922.
32.TB,1 July 1922.
33.TB,22 January 1922.
34.TB,6 June 1922.
35.TB,19 February 1922.
36.TB,25 February 1922.
37.TB,7 November 1922.
38.TB,26 May 1922.
39.TB,27 May 1922.
40.TB,4 March 1922.
41.
Le
seliste, no. 115.
42. Klaus Theweleit, Ma
¨
nnerphantasien (Munich and Zurich, 2000)(1st edn,
2 vols., Frankfurt a. M, 1977–8 ), 59.
43. Ibid. 131.
44.TB,15 January 1922.
45.TB,19 November 1921. There are also general references to emigration plans
in the entry for 14 January 1922.
46.TB,22 November 1922.
47.TB,23 November 1922.
48.TB,25 January 1922.
49.TB,27 March 1922.
50.TB,1 December 1921.
51.TB,26 January 1922.
52.TB,4 February 1922.
53.TB,21 February 1922. Similar self-criticism can be found in the entries for 13
and 18 November, as well as for 4 December 1921;
see
also Smith, Himmler,
158.
54.TB,27 February 1922.
55.TB,18 November 1921.
56.TB,27 November 1921.
57.TB,5 February 1922.
58.TB,17 February 1922.
59.TB,27 May 1922.
60.TB,4 and 18 February 1922 concerning stomach problems. On 2 March 1922
he writes: ‘Had to drink a whole glass of beer in one go. Hugo, the new Senior,
did not know that I had been given permission not to drink beer.’ On the
following day he noted: ‘terrible stomach ache.’
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61. TB, 28 January 1922.
62. TB, 8 June 1922.
63. Ibid.
64. TB, 24 November 1921.
65. TB, 7 December 1921. On the qua rrel with Ka
¨
the see also the entries for 10
November and 7 December 1921, as well as for 16, 17, and 18 January and 22
February 1922.
66. TB, 5 March 1922.
67. TB, 30 June 1922.
68. TB, 7 June 1922.
69. TB, 8 and 25 June, and 5 July 1922.
70. TB, 6 June 1922. Meister was quoting here from Emmanuel Geibel’s ‘Fahnen-
treu’, written in 1850; see Smith, Himmler, 167.
71. TB, 21 February 1922.
72. TB, 18 January 1922.
73. TB, 21 February 1922.
74.
TB, 23 Febr
uary 1922.
75. BAK, NL 1126/1, letter to the examination board of the Department of
Agriculture of the Munich Technical University and the board’s positive
reply dated 3 June 1921. See also NL 1126/12, letters to his parents concerning
exams that he was taking during his practical training in Munich (e.g. 6
February and 7 March 1921).
76. TB, 13 June 1922.
77. TB, 23 March 1922, as well as the following days. There are no diary entries for
the period between 28 March and 26 May 1922.
78. TB, 30 May, 8, 14, and 30 June, as well as 2 July 1922.
79. TB, 15 June 1922: ‘Father: Afterwards 10 o’clock in the Augustinerkeller.
Talked politics. About women, love, life, particularly nowadays, about esoteric
knowledge, about patriotic activities, talked to Gebhard and Paula etc. till 12
o’clock, enjoyed ourselves very much. Home again.’
80. TB, 4 Feb, 1922. Hugo Stinnes (1870–1924), who was not in fact a Jew, was
one of the most influential businessmen during the post-war period.
81. TB, 4 March 1922. On the anti-Semitic entries in the diary see also Smith,
Himmler, 165.
82. Leseliste no. 106, read 25 December 1921–5 Januar
y 1922.
‘A book that really
makes one scared and that, by providing evidence, once again clearly shows
what one suspects is going on but is always forgetting about. A marvellous
collection of material.’
83. Ibid. no. 107, read 11 February 1922.
84. TB, 22 June 1922.
85. TB, 3 July 1922.
86. TB, 12 January 1922.
87. TB, 9 June 1922.
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88. On the conflict between Bavaria and the Reich see Ernst Rudolf Huber,
Deutsche Verfassungsgeschichteseit 1789, vol. 7: Ausbau, Schutz und Untergang der
Weimarer Republik (Stuttgart, etc., 1984), 249 ff.
89. Mu
¨
nchner Neueste Nachrichten, 16 June 1922.
90.TB,24 June 1922.
91.TB,26 June 1922.
92.TB,28 June 1922.
93.TB,2 July 1922.
94.TB,4 June 1922.
95.TB,5 July 1922. Himmler had allowed himself to be recruited for an anti-
Republican initiative, which, however, was unsuccessful in getting its pro-
posal put to a referendum. There is a copy of the statutes of the League in
Staatsarchiv Freiburg, A 40/1, no. 174.
96.TB,5 July 1922.
97.TB,19 June 1921.
98.TB,9 June 1922; see Smith, Himmler, 163.
99.TB,2 July 1922.
100.
TB, 13 Novem
ber 1921.
101. Gebhard completed his diploma in Mechanical Engineering in July 1923,
Ernst completed his diploma in Electrical Engineering in 1928; see Himmler,
Bru
¨
der Himmler, 95 and 131.
102. TB, 9 June 1922. He was already complaining about the high lecture fees and
the high prices of textbooks on 4 November 1921.
103. Zahlen zur Geldentwertung in Deutschland 1914 bis 1923, bearb. im Statistischen
Reichsamt (Berlin, 1925), 5. On the effects of hyperinflation on Munich see
Martin H. Geyer, Verkehrte Welt. Revolution, Inflation und Moderne, Mu
¨
nchen
1914–1924 (Go
¨
ttingen, 1998), 319 ff.
104. This is shown by a comparison of the cost-of-living indices and the salaries of
senior Reich officials (the incomes of senior Bavarian officials were sim ilar):
February
1920
January
1921
January
1922
April
1922
July
1922
October
1922
January
1923
Cost of living compared with 1913 (= 1):
8 11 20 34 54 221 1120
Salaries compared with 1913 (= 1):
2 4 8 10 20 80 373
105. See Smith, Himmler, 162.
106. BAK, NL 1126/1,
copy
of the diploma.
107. BAK, NL 1126/17, letter from Prof. Hudezeck, 15 August 1922; see Smith,
Himmler, 222.
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108.BAK, NL 1126/1, copy of the reference from Stickstoff-Land-GmbH
Schleissheim, 30 August 1923.
109. On the 1923 crisis and the prehistory of the Hitler putsch see Gerald
D. Feldman, The Great Disorder: Politics, Economics, and Society in the German
Inflation, 191 4–1924 (New York and Oxford, 1993), 631 ff.; Fenske, Konserva-
tivismus, 188 ff.; Heinrich August Winkler, Weimar 1918–1933. Die Geschichte
der ersten deutschen Demokr atie (Munich, 1993), 186 ff.
110. On the course of the Hitler putsch see Hanns Hubert Hofmann, Der Hitle-
rputsch. Krisenjahre deutscher Geschichte, 1920–1924 (Munich, 1961 ); Harold
J. Gordon, Hitlerputsch 1923. Machtkampf in Bayern 1923–1924 (Frankfurt a.
M., 1971); John Dornberg, Hitlers Marsch zur Feldherrnhalle. Mu
¨
nchen, 8. und 9.
November 1923 (Muni ch, 1983).
111. StA Mu
¨
nchen, Pol. Dir. Mu
¨
nchen 6712, interrogations of Seydel und Lem-
bert.
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1. In his diary entry for 14 February 1924 Himmler expressed his frustration and
disappointment at his unsuccessful attempts to find work. It is clear from a
letter from an acquaintance, Maria R auschmayer, dated 13 June 1924 (BAK,
NL 1126/17), that, prompted by Himmler’s mother, she had been trying to
ask around about a job in agriculture for him.
2. TB, 11, 13, 14, and 15 February 1924; evidently he was awai ting mail which
was supposed to be left in the Schu
¨
tzen or ‘Fasching’ pharmacy. (According to
Karl Wolff, his fellow fraternity member, Fasching, worked in the Schu
¨
tzen
pharmacy: StA Mu
¨
nchen, 34865/9, interrogation of 16 February 1962.) On
11 February Himmler referred to arrests of putschists in his diary; on 15
February he noted more details about the role of one of those arrested.
3. TB, 15 February 1924 .
4.In1924 Gebhard Himmler was registered as living at Marsplatz 8 (II Floor),
see Adressbuch fu
¨
rMu
¨
nchen 1924.
5. BAB, BDC, Research Ordner 199, NSDAP headquarters to Himmler, 12
August 1925, with enclosure: National Socialist local branches in Lower
Bavaria.
6. On his work on the article for the Langquaider Zeitung see TB 11, 12, and 17
February 1924; on its publication in the Rottenburger Anzeiger see TB, 23
February 1924.
7.
TB, 24 Febr
uary 1924.
8. TB, 25 February 1924.
9. TB, 24 February 1924.
10. Lothar Gruchm ann and Reinhard Weber, with the assistance of Otto Gritsch-
neder (eds), Der Hitler-Prozess 1924. Wortlaut der Hauptverhandlung vor dem
endnotes 765
Volksgericht Mu
¨
nchen I, 4 vols. (Munich,1997–9), here vol. 2 (Munich, 1998),
642. This shows that the defence offered to call Himmler as a witness to the
aggressive behaviour of a Reichswehr officer who, on 9 November, was placed
with his troops opposite to the Reichskriegsflagge in front of the War Ministry.
11. BAK, NL 1126/7, letters from Hajim (?) Mazhar, 24 November 1923, 16 April
1924, and 15 March 1925; refe rence in TB, 14 February 1924.
12.TB,11, 14, and 15 February 1924.
13.TB,12 February 1924.
14. BAK, NL 1126/17, Robert Kistler to Himmler, 17 June 1924.
15. Ibid. letter of 5 November 1924.
16.TB,7 November 1921 and 31 May 1922. On the ‘Paula affair’ see also Smith,
Himmler, 198ff.
17.TB,12 November 1921 He had read the book in December 1920 and
com
mented
on it as follows: ‘A book that presents the ideal of a woman as
pure feeling and shows us woman simply as a goddess, as she often appears as a
goddess to a true man. It is a hymn of praise to woman and to a feeling that is
beautiful and idealized.—If only it could come true in the world we live in and
if only the goddess woman did not have so many flaws’ (Leseliste no. 72).
18. This is suggested by Paula Sto
¨
lze’s comment in her letter to Gebhard of 4
March 1924 that at the time she had considered Heinrich’s letter to be ‘not
quite right’ (BAK, NL 1126/13).
19. Ibid. Himmler to Paula Sto
¨
lzle, italics in the original. It was a draft of 18 April
1923, which was sent in that or similar form as is clear from Paula’s response, in
particular her unwillingness to be ‘lectured to’ by Heinrich.
20. Ibid. 1 July 1923.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid. 11 February 1924.
23. The break-up is clear from various letters in BAK, NL 1126/19: Gebhard
Himmler’s letter to the parents of his fiance
´
e, 27 February 1924, as well as to
Paula, 28 February 1924; P aula’s reply as well as that of her father, Max Sto
¨
lzle,
both dated 4 March 1924. Gebhard then replied on 10 March 1924.
24. BAK, NL 1126/13, 4 Ma rch 1924.
25. Ibid. letter from the private detective, Max Blu
¨
ml, dated 14 March 1924,to
Himmler, who had given him the job on 9 March 1924.
26. Ibid. letter to Ro
¨
ssner, 12 March 1924,
reply
of 18 March 1924.
27.TB,18–22 February 1924. A reference to a further stay with these friends is
contained in the Leseliste no. 202 (28 February–5 March 1924).
28. BAK, NL 1126/17, 23 May 1924.
29. Maria Rauschmayer, born on 29 May 1901 in Dillingen, began her study of
German at Munich University in winter semester 1919. She submitted a
dissertation on the Reformation in 1924, but did not complete the degree
(information from the Munich University archive).
30.TB,2 June 1922.
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31. BAK, NL 1126/17, Maria Rauschmayer to Himmler, 13 June 1924, received
on 17 June 1924, see also the letter from Maria Rauschmayer of 18 November
1923.
32. Ibid. 2 August 1924.
33. Leseliste no. 175, Friedrich Zur Bonsen, Das zweite Gesicht (Cologne, 1916),
read 29 November4 December 1923: ‘Intellectually serious and lucid study.’
34. Geyer, Verkehrte Welt, 309 ff., points out that during the hyperinflation medical
and religious cranks were popular and that ‘alternative’ doctrines like Theoso-
phy, Occultism, Spiritualism, and Anthroposophy had a big impact. See also
Ulrich Linse, Barfu
¨
ßige Propheten. Erlo
¨
ser der Zwanziger Jahre (Berlin, 1983).
35. Leseliste no. 246, Heinrich Ju
¨
rgens, Pendelpraxis und Pendelmagie (Pfullingen,
1925), read 25 August 1925.
36. BAK, NL 1126/17; however, he was turned down because the astrologer did
not have enough facts (letter from Studienrat C. Heilmaier to Himmler, 19
September 1925).
37. Leseliste no. 148, Max Eyth, Der Kampf um die Cheopspyramide, 8th edn
(Heidelberg, 1921), read 19–23 February 19
23.
38.
Ibid. no. 148, Karl Du Prel, Der Spiritismus, new edn (Leipzig, 1922), read
January and Februa ry 1923: ‘A serious little work with a philosophical basis
which has really made me believe in Spiritualism and has really introduced me
to it for the first time.’
39. Ibid. no. 86, Matthias Fidler, Die Toten leben! Wirkliche Tatsachen u
¨
ber das
perso
¨
nliche Fortleben nach dem Tode (Leipzig, 1909), read 30 April and 2 May
1921.
40. Ibid. no. 111, read December 1923.
41. Ibid. no. 191, read 9 February 1924.
42. Ibid. no. 167, Christian Heinrich Gilardone, Eppes Kittisch!! Noch a
¨
Beitraagk zu
Israels Verkehr und Geist (Speyer, 1843), read 8–14 October 1923.
43. Ibid. no. 171, Theodor Fritsch, Handbuch der Judenfrage, 29th edn (Leipzig,
1923), read 25 September–21 November 1923.
44. Ibid. no. 176, Theodor Fritsch, Der falsche Gott. Beweismaterial gegen Jahwe
(Leipzig,1920), read 1–5 Decem ber 1924.
45. Ibid. no. 200, Erich Ku
¨
hn, Rasse?
Ein Roman (Munich, 1921),
read 27 February
1924: ‘Naturally deals wit h the Aryan and Jewish racial problem. The seduc-
tion and incarceration of this German girl is handled particularly well’. Ibid. no.
201, Edward Stilgebauer, Die Lu
¨
gner des Lebens. Das Liebesnest (Berlin, 1908),
read 20– 9 February 1924: ‘Jewish blood and Jewish sensuality depicted fairly
well. The novel deals with inferior people with only a few exceptions.’
46. Ibid. no. 216, Eine unbewusste Blutschande. Der Untergang Deutschlands. Naturge-
setze u
¨
ber die R assenlehre (Grossenhain i. S., 1921), read 17 September 1924:‘A
marvellous book. It’s a pioneering work. Particularly the last part on how it’s
possible to improve the race again. It’s on a terrifically high moral level.’
endnotes 767
47. Ibid. no. 223, read 22–4 October 1924.
48. Ibid. no. 173, Heinr ich Bo
¨
hmer, Die Jesuiten, 4th completely revised edition
(Leipzig and Berlin, 1921), read 5–24 November 1923.
49. Ibid. no. 193, Carl Felix von Schlichtergroll, Der Sadist im Priesterrock (Leipzig,
1904), read 19 February 1924: ‘History of the seduction of women and girls in a
sadistic manner in Paris. Moral constraint and hypnosis.’
50. Ibid. no. 207, Alfred Miller, Ultramontanes Schuldbuch. Eine deutsche Abrechnung
mit dem Zentrum und seinen Hinterma
¨
nnern (Breslau, 1922), read 19 May 1924.
51. Ibid. no. 229, K. v.Widdumhoff, Die entdeckten schwarzen Henker des deutschen
Volkes (Weissenburg i. B., 1924), read October 1924–20 January 1925.
52. Ibid. no. 189, Adolf-Vikto r von Ko
¨
rber, Adolf Hitler: sein Leben und seine Reden
(Munich, 1923), read 16 January 1924. Ibid. no. 208, Dietrich Eckart, Der
Bolschewismus von Moses bis Lenin. Zwiegespra
¨
ch zwischen Adolf Hitler und mir
(Munich, 1924), read 19 May 1924.
‘A down-to-earth and witty conversation
betw
een Hitler and Eckhardt, which reveals both of their personalities so
accurately and so well. It provides a perspective through all epochs and
opens one’s eyes to many things that one hasn’t been aware of. I wish that
everyone would read this book.’
53. Ibid. no. 162, Bjo
¨
rnstjerne Bjo
¨
rnson, Mary (Berlin, 1910), read 15–19 Septem-
ber 1923: ‘Mary is a purely Nordic, Germanic woman.’
54. Ibid. no. 165, Werner Jansen, Das Buc h Treue. Nibelungenroman (Hamburg,
1916), read 28 September3 October 1923.
55. Ibid. no. 179, read 1 October 19235 January 1924.
56. Ibid. no. 217, Werner Jansen, Das Buch Leidenschaft. Amelungenroman
(Braunschweig, 1920), read 18–20 September 1924. The book was based on
the ‘Amelungenlied’, a literary reconstruction produced in the nineteenth
century.
57. Ibid. no. 218, read 24 September 1924.
58. Ibid. no. 220, Werner Jansen, Gudrun: Das Buch Liebe (Brunswick. 1920), read
4–21 October 1924.
59. Ibid. no. 202, Hans Gu
¨
nther, Ritter, Tod und Teufel (Munich, 1921), read 28
February–5 March 1924 as
well
as July–November 1924. In a letter of August
1924 (BAK, NL 1126/ 17), which was concerned among other things with the
essence of ‘vo
¨
lkisch’ and which refers to conversations with Himmler, his
friend Maria Rauschmayer mentioned both Das Buch Treue and Gu
¨
nther’s
work.
60. According to a post-Second World War report written by Gregor Strasser’s
brother Otto, which is not very reliable, Himmler had already met Gregor
during 1923. He claims that Himmler was visiting Gregor when the police
arrested him in Landshut directly after the putsch. Otto Strasser also maintains
that during the previous months Himmler had assisted Gregor with the
organization of his own paramilitary unit based in Landshut, acting as his
‘adjutant’. This statement is not supported by any other evidence and appears
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improbable in view of Himmler’s involvement with the R eichskriegsflagge
(Otto Strasser, Hitler und ich (Konstanz, 1948), 47 and 66 f.).
61. On Gregor Strasser see above all Udo Kissenkoetter, Gregor Straßer und die
NSDAP (Stuttgart, 1978) and Peter D. Stachura, Gregor Strasser and the Rise of
Nazism (London, 1983). Strasser outlined his views on ‘National Socialism’ in
his book Kampf um Deutschland. Reden und Aufsa
¨
tze eines Nationalsozialisten
(Munich, 1932).
62. It is clear from Himmler’s Leseliste that he was based in Landshut from July
1924.
63. BAK, NL 1126/17, letter to Robert Kistler, Milan, 22 August 1924.
64. Kurier von Niederbayern, 9 December 1924.
65. In October 1924 the Vo
¨
lkische Bloc had joined the NS-Freiheitsbewegung,
which had brought together the Deutschvo
¨
lkischen and the Nazis.
66. BAB, BDC, Research Ordner 199, letter of 8 July 1925.
67. Ibid. 4 August 1925.
68. See the further correspondence between Himmler and headquarters between
September 1925 and February 1926 (ibid.).
69. Ibid. letter of 17 February 1926. He finished the year 1925 with a considerable
deficit in his payments to party headquarters. See the letter from headquarters
to Himmler of 19 January 1926 .
70.
Ibid.
Himmler to Maurer, editor of the Vo
¨
lkischer Beobachter, 9 July 1925.
71. BAB, BDC, Research Ordner 199, 12 August 1925, Headquarters to Himmler.
72. Ibid. Himmler to Headquarters, 29 Septemb er 1925, and reply, 26 October
1925.
73. Ibid. Report for the period 15 October 1925–1 May 1926.
74. Kurier von Niederbayern, 28 August 1924, concerning a speech on 25 August in
Aidenbach; ibid. 4 June 1925, concerning a speech in Viechtach; ibid. 21
September 1924 about a forthcoming speech in Fu
¨
rstenzell on 24 September;
on 3 April the paper reported on a speech in Malgersdorf on 26 March 1926.
75.On9 March he spoke in the Dingolfing local branch and on 26 March in
Malgersdorf on this topic (ibid. 18 March and 3 April 1926).
76. ‘History and Locarno’, Landshut local branch, speech on 19 November 1925
(ibid. 22–3 November 1925).
77. He spoke about the ‘Dubious Machinations of the Jews’ on 30 May 1924 in
Viechta
ch
(ibid. 4 June 1924) und he expanded on the topic ‘Jewry and
Bolshevism’ on 13 June 1925 in Zwiesel (ibid. 21 June 1925). He had spoken
about ‘The Threats from the Jews’ on 30 April 1926 in Malgersdorf (ibid. 11
May 1926).
78. Leseliste no. 235, Franz Haiser , Freimaurer und Gegenmaurer im Kampfe um die
Weltherrschaft (Munich, 1924), read January–18 March 1925: ‘We need such
books. They strengthen one’s belief in what one instinctively feels and yet,
because one has been corrupted, doesn’t dare believe [ . . . ].’ In future years
Himmler was to recommend this book and Wichtl’s piece of anti-Freemasonry
endnotes 769