ABSTRACT
THE theory of the National-Socialist Party is hetero geneous, undisciplined. Different times, different circumstances called forth new formulations. Pro found disagreement exists between the Right and Left wings. Yet, just as there is a continuity in the Party policy and leadership, in spite of its veiled and contradictory tactics, so there is also a theory which follows this policy. Its best exponent is Alfred Rosenberg, who is to-day the official Censor of the theoretical work of the Party. If Hitler learnt from Gottfried Feder the machinations of finance, from Rosenberg he acquired the philosophical atmosphere in which his politics grew. From Rosenberg he learnt to identify Jews and Bolsheviks, international finance and Communism; from Rosenberg he took his first lessons in foreign politics. Rosenberg, the architect, who had studied at universities, over-awed Hitler, the “water-colourist”; his exhibition of recondite knowledge impressed the Leader, who seems to have read little but newspapers and pamphlets. In many points their main works, the Myth of the Twentieth Century and My Struggle, re-echo one another. And more important still, the body of doctrine in the Myth of the Twentieth Century corresponds most closely to the practical policy of the Hitler government.
