Evening star., 1933-10-29

L the opening OF Tie great VIC
n tory rally which the National
II Socialist German Workers
l \ party recently held in Nurem-
berg a representative Of the
Italian Fascist extended Premier Mus
solini's greetings and congratulations
to the gathering and said that II Duce
welcomed the growing strength OF the
Fascist idea in Germany and through
out tho world
Thisswould seem to prove that the
father of Fascism recognizes the af-
finity of Hitlerisr with his own po-
litical and social ideology. This is an
assumption which must nevertheless,
be open to very serious doubt. Musso-
lini is an intelligent man and he Is
fully aware that Hitlerism's root idea
and fundamental purpose are the in
comparable superiority of the German
race and the establishment of a world
dominating German racial state. He
must be aware that this idea and this
purpose antedate the imitation OF his
Fascistis outer forms and tactics and
that Hitlerism could now survive a
change to other forms and tactics hav-
ing no resemblance to FaSciSm.
In that portion of the NaZi scripture
cMy Struggle"O which Adolf Hitler
wrote when he was paying light pen
atty for the Beer Hall Putsch" of 1928,
the Fuehrer says THE move
ment does not consider it its duty to
maintain or restore any particular form
of state in opposition to any other. but
rather to create those fundamental
principles without which neither re-
public nor monarchy can exist in per-
manency. Its mission is not to found
a monahchy or establish a republic, but
to create Germanic state.
German Racial State Is Aim.
At that time the Hitler following
had already adopted the Roman salute,
because barking back to more virile
antiquity was one Of their own prtnci-
Piles, and they had hastened to uni
form and give a military organization
to the strong-arm gangs that had orig
inally been recruited In Munich to
bounce" MARKHAM hecklers out Of their
public meetings, in imitation Of Mus
solini's black-shirted cohorts.
But the approval of Mussolini's sys-
tenn, which they made clear in their
imitation of the outer semblance of
Fascism, was an approval of the means
to an end only. They had their own
original objective, and Hitler could just
as honestly have added in 1924-or
today, for that matter-that his partyS
duty was not the establishment of
Fascist state, but of German racial
state in any form that best confirmed
the German people in his purpose.
If the term "Fascism" has to be so
much qualified to be descriptive Of Hit
lerism, so does National Socialism"
From the time that his doctrines first
Hitler has never conceived of a Ger
many limited to its present political
boundaries If HitleriSm is any kind of
Socialism at all it should be called
Teutonic Racial Socialism, for if there
is any one idea that cannot be taken
out of Hitlerism without giving it its
quietus it is that of bringing all those
who speak the German language into
single state which will have the soli-
darity of fraternal order, and of es-
tablishing the closest possible spiritual
affinity with other peoples Of Teutonic
Observation-Disclosures, Dutch, Anglo
Saxons, Flemings and what not.
Hitler Has Feelings Interpreted.
The socialism" Of the Hitlerites is
even less accurately descriptive Of their
theology than their "nationalism. Hit
Ter feels-for he never thinks, but lets
others explain to him why he feels this
or that way-that the German working
man deserves "a break" largely because
he was once very poor himself. but also
because you cannot make swash-
buckling Siegfried out of an under
nourished, intimidated wage slave. He,
therefore, believes in unions that will
cooperate with capital. with the state
as a clearing house for such co-opera-
ton, In q fair distribution Of wealth.
Gottfried FEEDER long since taught Hit