The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-03-31
(This is the last of three ar ticIes which bring into focus the Guideposts to Hitler's person. ality.)
By MORGAN M. BEATTY
AP Feature Service Writer

When Adolf Hitler'S march on Berlin fizzled in 1923, the Nazi chieftain decided to talk himself into power.
 But you can't talk yourself into anything from a cell and that's where Hitler found himself when his 1923 coup failed.
 So, the ex-corporal devoted him. self to the next best thing-the writ ing of his autobiography. He called the work ''Mein Kampf f''-"My Bat tie" or My Fight"
 It was a constant repetition of political themes he had been pound- ing at Germans since the war.
 Get up, German workers; you're not whipped" was the general idea. Hatred of Russia and the Jews ran through the 70O-odd pages. German superiority was the keynote.
 Heads Will Roll
 The book was an outpouring of Hitler's passionate love for the fatherland. Nothing had stemmed it. not even baptism of fire from German regular army troops. Even on the witness stand he had in- sisted on preaching his bold plan for German domination of Gen. tral Europe. He had predicted that heads would roll when he assumed absolute power.
 It all seemed so ludicrous. And yet millions of Germans were only too eager to listen. German au thorities of the day must have sensed that, for Hitler was paroled within a year. Then began his final, successful assault on the re- public.
 Biographers, news correspondents, medical men, friends and enemies all have tried to explain the hocus- pocus that made Hitler the supreme law in Germany. None has suc- ceeded, yet all seem to catch a part of the idea.
 For instance, psychologist says Hitler has a mother love complex, brought on by his fathers tyranny, and his own early failures in art. This interpreter sees Hitler's un- swerving purpose to dominate the Germanic people as an effort to prove to mother Hitler's memory that her son was the master of bis destiny.
 Others tell you Hitler arouses the twin emotions of love and fear in his followers, eventually merg- ing them into frenzy of devotion.
 Life of Contradictions
 Still other credit everything to Hitler's genius as a propagandist.
 It is public knowledge that a few of his intimate followers have been covered with the mud of sex scandal. One such man, Ernst Roehm, was the only person who dared call Hitler by his first name.
 Yet his enemies produce no evil dence that Hitler himself is any, thing but normal On occasion he certainly has shown himself brave, resolute, and equipped with the powers of genius.
 Hitler's personal and public life are succession of contradictions. He remains bachelor while preach ing that Germans should marry and produce more stalwart sons. In his early life, he preferred idleness, yet he has rebuilt Germany on the that work is glorious adventure, a patriotic duty.
 He professes a consuming pas sion for the people, tells the world they are his boss. Yet he rules them with absolute authority.
 Hitler emerged from Landsberg fortress proud. and resourceful and marched straight toward political power. Each year he and his fol- lowers talked themselves into more seats in the Reichstag, until, by 1883, they had the balance of power Then they deadlocked the law makers, and waited for the inevi- table crisis.
 The Hour Strikes
 When it arrived, and the beloved President von Hindenburg asked Hitler to become chancellor, the Nazi hour had struck. Hitler abol- ished the Republic, made the Reich