As Hitler went through all of the Twenty Five Points, he asked
the rowdy crowd for its approval on each point. And they certainly approved. He
recounted,
"When after nearly four hours the hall began to empty and
the crowd, shoulder to shoulder, began to move, shove, press toward the exit
like a slow stream, I knew that now the principles of a movement which could no
longer be forgotten were moving out among the German people…A fire was kindled
from whose flame one day the sword must come which would regain freedom for the
Germanic Siegfried and life for the German nation."
It was in the summer of 1920 that Hitler chose the symbol of
his movement—the red and black swastika…a symbol that Samuel had so often seen
with items in the newspaper as this man had gained popularity and been featured
so often in the American press.
Hitler had said, "In the red we see the social idea of the
movement, in the white the national idea, in the swastika the mission to
struggle for the victory of Aryan man and at the same time the victory of the
idea of creative work, which is eternally anti-Semitic and will always be
anti-Semitic."
It was only this year that Samuel became more than concerned
about Adolf Hitler and his political aspirations. On April 7, 1933 Jews were
not officially allowed to hold public office or civil service positions, nor
were they allowed involvement in the legal field. Two weeks later, Samuel had
read where students from education by the “Law against Overcrowding in Schools
and Universities.” Then, of July 14, the De-Naturalization Law allowed the
Third Reich to remove the citizenship of Jews and other “undesirables.”
To be continued.
