Hitler’s movement depended on catastrophe rather than recovery for success

Evidence

Heiden, op. cit., shows how consistently Hitler sided with catastrophe in the early days of the movement, how he feared a possible recovery of Germany. “Half a dozen times [i.e., during the Ruhrputsch], in different terms, he declared to his storm troops that Germany was going under. ‘Our job is to insure the success of our movement’” (p. 167)—a success which at that moment depended upon the collapse of the fight in the Ruhr. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2584

Categorization

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