By William Tatsiou

Historians have been looking at the Rise and Fall of Nazi Germany for 60 years. Recent research confirms that Adolf Hitler was a spy for military counter intelligence. Hitler was also a professor at a military academy. This part of Hitler's life has never been adequately studied. With the recent auction of Hitler's art there is renewed interest in Hitler's life.

Adolf Hitler poses with a group of SS members soon after his appointment as Chancellor. (February 1933).

These facts  are not widely known. Hitler is often described as a poor and frustrated painter who became homeless and subsequently became indoctrinated by anti-semites. The fact of the matter is he was a spy and a decorated war veteran who could be trusted and controlled by the military establishment. Hitler writes:

"One day I received orders from my headquarters to find out what was behind an apparently political organization which was planning to hold a meeting...under the name of 'German Workers' Party'...I was told to go and take a look at the organization and then make a report...

At the time I was still living in the barracks of the Second Infantry Regiment in a little room that still very distinctly bore the traces of the revolution. During the day I was out, mostly with the Forty-First Rifle Regiment, or at meetings, or lectures in some other army unit..."

After WWI the Prussian aristocracy and the Kaiser lost power. The Weimar Republic was weak and was immediately threatened by the communists who took up arms. Fighting was intense as the Bolsheviks were sending in spies, auxilaries and money to assist their communist German brothers.

After the suppression of the Munich Soviet Republic, Hitler took part in "national thinking" courses organized by the Education and Propaganda Department (Dept Ib/P) of the Bavarian Reichswehr Group, Headquarters 4 under Captain Karl Mayr.In July 1919, Hitler was appointed a Verbindungsmann (police spy) of an Aufklärungskommando (Intelligence Commando) of the Reichswehr.

 In this historical context, Hitler enters the stage as part of the counter intelligence network established to spy on the reds. Hitler was ordered to attend meetings held by the Nazis. Hitler reported back in a secret memo that they only had seven members, they were not communists notwithstanding the name "German Workers Party" and they were not a threat. With his work completed he wanted to move on to his next assignment.

SEFTON DELMER, telling the inside story of the Fuehrer's rise, tells us in his book the Soul of Hitler what Hitler's life was like during this period. He writes:

"JUNE 1919. The lance-corporal looked ill, hungry, and apathetic as he sat on his chair, moodily pulling at the ends of his drooping moustache. (Once it had been a Kaiser moustache. The ends of it had turned up with martial ferocity. Now it was an ex-Kaiser moustache, its ends turned down.)
Around him in the barrack room of the 2nd infantry Regiment in Munich sat other soldiers, all dressed as he was in shabby, outworn field-grey uniforms showing signs of front-line wear. There was no cloth for new uniforms in the Munich of June 1919.

The war was over. But revolution and disorder were still sweeping Germany. Communists had attempted to seize the Government power from their Social Democrat allies together with whom in 1918 they had over thrown the Kaiser.
The socialists in order to fight the Communists had called in the help of the returning army under their monarchist officers. These soldiers in the barrack room had themselves only a month ago been fighting communists in the streets of Munich. The blockade was still in force and there was no cloth for uniforms.

At the blackboard at the end of the room stood a sergeant ....

That's why we lost the war. Who were these traitors? who made the revolution? Who reaped the profit?. " Around us we see a whole nation suffering but among us some are thriving and prosperous. Who are these people who are getting fat while we starve? Comrades the Jews, The Jewish bankers, the Jewish stockbrokers are the real profiteers of our misfortune.

The soldiers in the barrack room cried, "Sehr Richtig" which is a German way of saying "Hear hear." The lance corporal didn't stop for another twenty minutes, and when he sat down his hair was disheveled, perspiration streamed down his face, his voice almost gone. Even the officer was impressed. Captain Mayer was his name. I met him in 1932 when he was one of the members of the Reichsbanner, the republican anti-nazi storm troops. He did not like to be reminded of what he did now. Captain Mayer took the lance-corporal aside and asked him whether he would care to become one of the army's political instructors,a job which until then had been reserved for officers.

He would first be put through an instructors training course, he said and then be sent out to spread the gospel of patriotism and nationalism among German soldiers and civilians, to win them away from the Marxists, pacifists and internationalists, who had got hold of them. " what do you say. Lance-Corporal Hitler?" he asked, when he had finished explaining. The Lance-Corporal brought his heels sharply together, "Zu Befel Herr Captain" he said, Adolf Hitler had accepted.

And thus was born, at the age of thirty, the Adolf Hitler we know today, Adolf Hitler the political soldier for whom, as for his Reichswehr chiefs, the war had never ended. For whom the peace when it was signed was just an armistice in which to liquidate the new regime established by the revolution of 1918. rearm Germany and take up once more the fight for German world domination. Don't forget this Reichswehr origin of Hitler. It is the real key to his career. All along he has been the Reichswehr's man.

The Reichswehr gave him men, they gave him advise, they trained his storm troopers, they gave him money, they helped him get more money from the industrialists. But above all they gave him their influential protection, the protection of those who within a few weeks of the downfall of the Kaiser and the end of the old regime had once more become the real rulers of Germany."

Hitler's remarkable personal achievement is that starting from scratch as one among many political agitators operating for the Reichwehr, starting in the lowest rank of them all, he quickly worked his way up to leadership of one of the Reichswehr's most important political instruments, the National Socialist party.

Then he proceeded to make that party so strong that when, in the autumn of 1932, the Reichswehr chiefs wanted to drop him, they found he was to powerful to ignore. They had to let him in on the Government racket...."

It is important to repeat : Don't forget the Reichswehr origin of Hitler. It is the real key to his career. All along he was been the Reichswehr's man.

His superiors in military counter intelligence denied his request and instead ordered him to become a Nazi member (he become party member number 7) and to help organize and build up the Nazi Party. Money and resources were secretly sent to the Nazi party which quickly grew in membership and strength.  

WWI German Veterans, many who were unemployed,  were recruited in large numbers and money flowed in from business interests, the German state and even foreign governments. This part of the story has never been adequately reviewed. Given the nature of the work, which was often undertaken in secret, there is a void in the history books.

This phase of the Nazi party and Hitler's early vocation have not been adequately analyzed and additional research is required to learn the truth, especially as it pertains to foreign covert assistance for the Nazi Party.

By 1930 the Nazi Party and Hitler had gained the financial support of rich industrialists  such Emil Kirdorf, a major industrialist and leader of the German mining industry. In the elections of 1930, the Nazi party received 6,500,000 votes and took 107 Reichstag seats, becoming the second strongest party in the state. The communists also gained with 77 seats, an increase of 23 seats from the last election. The western press, such as the Daily Mail in London, welcomed Hitler's sucess as he and the Nazis were seen as a bastion against bolshevism which was viewed by many in the west as the enemy in depression years.

Hitler also enjoyed the support of the Duke of Windsor (King Edward Viii) and his wife The Duchess. They both visited Hitler in October 1937. Edward helped legitimize Hitler and the Nazis with his support. Western bankers and wealthy families also supported Hitler in the early years.

Hitler is not the only spy to attain control of a powerful state. Russian President Putin is the fomer head of the KGB. U.S. President George Bush sr. is the former head of the CIA who worked for the CIA during the last 60 years, after he returned from the Pacific following his military service in WWII.

To avoid the mistakes of the past it is necessary to study history and to look more deeply into the correct historical facts.