Hitler's Tantric Love

An event which I have found continually fascinating in the history covered so far is Hitler's blotched Beer Hall Putsch of 1923. It seems to beautifully foreshadow Hitler’s doctoral style, and his relationship with the motherland of Germany.

Marienplatz in Munich during the Beer Hall Putsch.

Well documented within this blog even thus far, was the German man's passion for storing up hatred of others with dynamically orating the deep evil within himself. While he had possessed this skill in the Homeless homes of Vienna, in the Munich Cafes, it had always been tolerated as almost crazy babble by his peers. The post-war conditions changed the arena in which he was able to unleash these hate speeches, and his defeated audience seemed more receptive to his messages. While in the pre-war years his ideas may have been slightly insane in their intensity and message, in the beer halls he managed to make his mark as a propagandist. Very little of his speeches were new or innovative, most themes common among volkisch groups. And the crowds that consequently flocked did not have set philosophies or political ideas; they were simply hot after the war and a mess of anger, bitterness, and dissatisfaction. After the years of frustration as a half-assed speaker and limited personal relations, finally gaining acceptance, cheer, and approval from masses must have been an addicting and completely infatuating experience. As Kershaw puts it "He needed the orgasmic excitement which only the ecstatic masses could give him."

And the events of November 8^th, 1923 were not careful and thought-out, but similar to the desperate and eager move of an infatuated lover. Intoxicated by his hold over the restless masses behind him, and seeking to place himself at the head of all anti-republican groups in the Bavarian capital, Hitler brandished a pistol in a Beer hall and attempted to create a national revolution. The entire ordeal was very emotionally enacted by Adolf, who made a series of dramatic speeches and threatened Bavarian captives with his gun. He was euphoric hearing the crowds chant for him, in the possibility that he might have a chance to secure dictatorship over the motherland. However, the Beer Hall Putsch was clearly devised out of eagerness and desperation, and relatively easily stifled by the government.

Defendants in the Beer Hall Putsch trial.

Like a rejected lover, Hitler was torn by his failure and even contemplated suicide. This sequence of hysterical moods foreshadowed his future demeanor of an unstable neurotic in a critical government position. But this insanity and dramatization - much of what made him such an effective leader at the time, can easily be compared to an intense love, lust, and longing for mass recognition and popularity. Thus Hitler’s regime, I believe can be compared to the dramatic seduction, and ensuing passionate, abusive relationship with the motherland and masses.