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28 Nov. 45
document which has been translated into English, and which
starts, I believe, on Page 7 of the German text:
"At present in Vienna, 14 July 1939;
"To the General Field Marshal
"Sir:
"If I may add something about myself, it is the following: I
know that I am not of an active fighting nature, unless final
decisions are at stake. At this time of pronounced activism"
--Aktivismus--"this will certainly be regarded as a fault of my
personality. Yet I know that I cling with unconquerable tenacity to
the goal in which I believe, that is Greater
Germany"--Grossdeutschland--"and the Führer. And if
some people are already tired out from the struggle and some have
been killed in the fight, I am still around somewhere and ready to go
into action. This, after all, was also the development until the year
1938. Until July 1934, I conducted myself as a regular member of the
Party. And if I had quietly, in whatever form, paid my membership
dues (the first one, according to a receipt, I paid in December 1931)
I probably would have been an undisputed, comparatively old fighter
and Party member of Austria, but I would not have done any more for
the union. I told myself in July 1934 that we must fight this
clerical regime on its own ground in order to give the Führer a
chance to use whatever method he desired."
--I would like to call particular attention to
that sentence.--
"I told myself that this Austria was worth a mass. I have
stuck to this attitude with an iron determination because I and my
friends had to fight against the whole political church, the
Freemasonry, the Jewry, in short, against everything in Austria. The
slightest weakness which we might have displayed would undoubtedly
have led to our political annihilation; it would have deprived the
Führer of the means and tools to carry out his ingenious
political solution for Austria, as became evident in the days of
March 1938. I have been fully conscious of the fact that I am
following a path which is not comprehensible to the masses and also
not to my Party comrades. I followed it calmly and would without
hesitation follow it again, because I am satisfied that at one point
I could serve the Führer as a tool in his work, even though my
former attitude even now gives occasion to very worthy and honorable
Party comrades to doubt my trustworthiness I have never paid
attention to such things because I am satisfied with the opinion
which the Führer and the men close to him have of me."
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