General Political Considerations Based on My Vienna Period. Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler. Volume One - A Reckoning. Chapter III: General Political Considerations Based on My Vienna Period. TODAY it is my conviction that in general, aside from cases. He should not do so, because up to this time. Only after he has acquired such a. Otherwise he runs the risk of either having to change his former. In the former case this is most embarrassing to him personally. In the second case, there. While he himself has given up all idea of fighting seriously for. If to the misfortune of decent people such a character gets. This alone will make every other man with political. I shall have more to say about this type of parliamentary bedbug. Even a man of thirty will have much to learn in the course of. When he learns. his learning will not have to be a revision of principle, but a supplementary. On the contrary. the visible organic growth of the leader will give them satisfaction, for. And this. in their eyes will be a proof for the correctness of the views they have. A leader who must depart from the platform of his general philosophy as. In such a case he must, at the very least, renounce. For since in matters. And in no event does he retain the. How little regard is taken of such decency today is attested. Hardly a one of them is fit for it. I had carefully avoided any public appearance, though I think. I studied politics more closely than many other men. Only in the smallest. I speak of the things which inwardly moved or attracted me. This. speaking in the narrowest circles had many good points: I learned to orate. And I trained myself, without losing the time. It is certain that. Germany was the opportunity for this so favorable as in. Vienna. General political thinking in the old Danubian monarchy was. Germany, excluding. Prussia, Hamburg, and the North Sea coast, at the same period. As time progressed, the. Empire. If the old hereditary territories were the heart of the Empire. Vienna was the brain and will in one. Its mere outward appearance justified one in attributing to this city the. The Empire might quiver and quake beneath the bloody battles. Germans. saw only the charming countenance of this city. Wblt made the deception. Vienna at that time seemed engaged in what was. Under the rule of a truly. Emperors of the old regime. The last great German to be born. Ostmark was not officially. Statesmen'; but as mayor of Vienna, this capital. Dr. Lueger conjured up one amazing achievement. Empire, and indirectly. If the conglomeration of nations called 'Austria' nevertheless. Germans in the old Ostmark, but was the necessary result. The ideas of the German- Austrian were more than grandiose. He had always been accustomed to living in a great empire and. He was the only. one in this state who, beyond the narrow boundaries of the crown lands. Reich; indeed, when Fate finally parted. 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The application is in — and we. Universal Pictures - Filmography. Join IMDb Pro for more details! German people what his fathers had once wrested. East in endless struggles. In this connection it should be borne. The general horizon of the German- Austrian was in itself comparatively. His economic connections frequently embraced almost the entire multiform. Empire. Nearly all the big business enterprises were in his hands; the directing. He was also in charge of foreign trade in so far as the Jews had not. Politically, he alone held the state together. Military service alone. The German- Austrian. German regiment, but the regiment itself might equally. Herzegovina, Vienna, or Galicia. The officers' corps was still. German, the higher officials predominantly so. Finally, art and science. German. Aside from the trash of the more modern artistic development. Negroes might just as well have produced, the German alone. In music, architecture. Vienna was the source supplying the entire dual. Finally, the Germans directed the entire foreign policy if we. Hungarians. And yet any attempt to preserve this Empire was in vain, for. For the Austrian state of nationalities there was only one possibility. Either the. state was centrally governed hence internally organized along the same lines. But as a rule it was soon forgotten or shelved as difficult. Any thought of a more federative organization of the Empire. Added to this were the internal conditions of the. Austrian state which differed essentially from the German Empire of Bismarck. Above all, the Reich, aside. In Austria the opposite was the case. Here the individual provinces, aside from Hungary, lacked any. In the period when the principle. Austrian national splinters, were. German. Austrian. Even Vienna could not forever endure this struggle. With the development of Budapest into a big city, she had for. In a short time Prague. Lemberg, Laibach, etc. With the rise of. The time inevitably approached when these dynamic. Austria. Since the death of Joseph II the course of this development. Its rapidity depended on a series of factors which. Empire's. momentary position on foreign policy. If the fighf for the preservation of this state was to be taken up and carried. First of all, the purely formal cohesion had to be emphasized. Likewise a unified state- consciousness could. This was not. feasible in ten or twenty years; it was inevitably a matter of centuries. It goes without saying that the administration as well as the. To me it. was infinitely instructive to ascertain why this did not occur. The foundation was lacking for a national state, which in. A homogeneous national state can. At such times. it often seems as though there were no more life in such a body, as though. It is different, however, with an empire not consisting of similar. Hence the younger. If he had been granted only forty years for his work. But when, after scarcely. Capuchin. crypt. His successors were equal to the task neither in mind nor in will. When the first revolutionary lightnings of a new era flashed. Europe, Austria, too, slowly began to catch fire, little by little. By forgetting or. Germans sealed their own fate. They helped to. arouse the spirit of 'Western democracy,' which in a short time removed. With the formation of a parliamentary representative body without. German domination of the monarchy.'. From this moment on the state itself was lost. All that followed was merely. To follow this process of dissolution was as heartrending as. This execution of an historical sentence was carried. The fact that a large. Austria's destruction. I shall not lose myself in details on this point, for that is. I shall only submit to a more thoroughgoing. At the head of those institutions which could most clearly have. Austrian monarchy, even to a shopkeeper not. Austria, the Reichsrat. Obviously the example of this body had been taken from England, the land. From there the whole blissful institution was. Vienna. The English two- chamber system was solemnly resurrected in the. Abgeordnetenhaus and the Herrenhaus. Except that the houses' themselves. When Barry raised his parliament buildings from. Thames, he thrust into the history of the British Empire. Thus, in their sculpture and painting. House of Lords and the House of Commons became the nation's Hall of. Fame. This was where the first difficulty came in for Vienna. For. when Hansen, the Danish builder, had completed the last pinnacle on the. Roman and & reek statesmen. Western democracy, and. The 'nationalities' had vetoed the glorification of Austrianhistory in this work as an insult and provocation, just as in the Reich. World War battles that they dared. Wallot's Reichstag Building to the German people by an inscription. When, not yet twenty years old, I set foot for the first time. Franzensring to attend a session of the. House of Deputies as a spectator and listener, I was seized with the most. I had always hated parliament, but not as an institution in. On the contrary, as a freedom- loving man I could not even conceive. House of Habsburg, have seemed. What contributed no little to this was that as a young man. I had, without myself. British. Parliament, of which I was not easily able to rid myself. The dignity with. Lower House there fulfilled its tasks (as was so touchingly described. Could a people have any more exalted. But for this very reason I was an enemy of the Austrian parliament. To. this the following was now added: The fate of the Germans in the Austrian state was dependent. Reichsrat. Up to the introduction of universal. Germans had had a majority, though an insignificant. Even this condition was precarious, for the Social Democrats. German interests in critical matters affecting the Germans- in order not. Even in those. days the Social Democracy could not be regarded as a German party. And with. the introduction of universal suffrage the German superiority ceased even. There was no longer any obstacle in the path. Germanization of the state. For this reason my instinct of national self- preservation caused. Germans were always misrepresented rather than represented. Yet these. were deficiencies which, like so many others, were attributable, not to. Austrian state. I still believed that if. German majority were restored in the representative bodies, there would. These were my inner sentiments when for the first time I set. For me, to be sure. I now had occasion to hear with my own ears. I had known only from reading the newspapers. A wild gesticulating. House by violently ringing his bell and alternating gentle reproofs. I couldn't help laughing. A few weeks later I was in the House again. The picture was. changed beyond recognition. The hall was absolutely empty. Down below everybody. A few deputies were in their places, yawning at one another. A vicepresident of the House was present, looking into. The first misgivings arose in me. From now on, whenever time. I went back and, with silence and. A year of this tranquil observation sufficed totally to change. My innermost. position was no longer against the misshapen form which this idea assumed. Austria; no, by now I could no longer accept the parliament as such. It provides this world plague with. In its most extreme forrn, parliamentarianism.
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