Rick Spence
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They're not revolutionaries, but they'll pay revolutionaries to subvert another regime. Now you've got the problem is that The revolutionary regime that your money helped bring to power is now threatening to extend into your country. So the whole question for the army and for others in Germany in 1919 is how to keep Germany from going Bolshevik, from in a sense being hoist by your own petard.
They're not revolutionaries, but they'll pay revolutionaries to subvert another regime. Now you've got the problem is that The revolutionary regime that your money helped bring to power is now threatening to extend into your country. So the whole question for the army and for others in Germany in 1919 is how to keep Germany from going Bolshevik, from in a sense being hoist by your own petard.
So the Thule Society, I don't think is a huge part of this program, but it is a part of it. And it's all an effort to try to keep control. And that's why the army is financing them. That's even where the army at some point then supplies them with its own propagandists. So the Thule Society begins to create, under Subotendor's leadership, what he called the Rings of Thule.
So the Thule Society, I don't think is a huge part of this program, but it is a part of it. And it's all an effort to try to keep control. And that's why the army is financing them. That's even where the army at some point then supplies them with its own propagandists. So the Thule Society begins to create, under Subotendor's leadership, what he called the Rings of Thule.
So the Thule Society, I don't think is a huge part of this program, but it is a part of it. And it's all an effort to try to keep control. And that's why the army is financing them. That's even where the army at some point then supplies them with its own propagandists. So the Thule Society begins to create, under Subotendor's leadership, what he called the Rings of Thule.
And these are satellite organizations that aren't the society as though, but they're kind of controlled and inspired by it. And one of those is a thing called the German Workers' Party. And the German Workers' Party, again, is local. It's not large. It's not terribly influential. But what does it aspire to be?
And these are satellite organizations that aren't the society as though, but they're kind of controlled and inspired by it. And one of those is a thing called the German Workers' Party. And the German Workers' Party, again, is local. It's not large. It's not terribly influential. But what does it aspire to be?
And these are satellite organizations that aren't the society as though, but they're kind of controlled and inspired by it. And one of those is a thing called the German Workers' Party. And the German Workers' Party, again, is local. It's not large. It's not terribly influential. But what does it aspire to be?
It aspires to be a party that will bring German workers away from the seductive influence of the Bolsheviks and into a more patriotic position, a patriotic. And the way that I describe this is that it's not an anti-communist organization. It's a counter-communist organization. So you don't create something which completely opposes it.
It aspires to be a party that will bring German workers away from the seductive influence of the Bolsheviks and into a more patriotic position, a patriotic. And the way that I describe this is that it's not an anti-communist organization. It's a counter-communist organization. So you don't create something which completely opposes it.
It aspires to be a party that will bring German workers away from the seductive influence of the Bolsheviks and into a more patriotic position, a patriotic. And the way that I describe this is that it's not an anti-communist organization. It's a counter-communist organization. So you don't create something which completely opposes it.
You create something which mimics it, which is ultimately what the German Workers' Party will become, is the National Socialist German Workers' Party, known as that term, socialist. And that is... in my view, what Nazism is from the beginning. It is a counter-communist movement.
You create something which mimics it, which is ultimately what the German Workers' Party will become, is the National Socialist German Workers' Party, known as that term, socialist. And that is... in my view, what Nazism is from the beginning. It is a counter-communist movement.
You create something which mimics it, which is ultimately what the German Workers' Party will become, is the National Socialist German Workers' Party, known as that term, socialist. And that is... in my view, what Nazism is from the beginning. It is a counter-communist movement.
Well, he's going to come into this because remember I said the army was going to supply its own propagandists to help the German Workers' Party and the Thule Society do their work. And the propagandist they supply them with is a man who the army trains, sends to classes to learn the art of public speaking and propaganda. And that fellow is Corporal Adolf Hitler.
Well, he's going to come into this because remember I said the army was going to supply its own propagandists to help the German Workers' Party and the Thule Society do their work. And the propagandist they supply them with is a man who the army trains, sends to classes to learn the art of public speaking and propaganda. And that fellow is Corporal Adolf Hitler.
Well, he's going to come into this because remember I said the army was going to supply its own propagandists to help the German Workers' Party and the Thule Society do their work. And the propagandist they supply them with is a man who the army trains, sends to classes to learn the art of public speaking and propaganda. And that fellow is Corporal Adolf Hitler.
Well, he'd been in the army during the war, the only regular job that he'd ever had. Kind of liked it. So you often get the view is that, well, at the end of the war, he joined millions of other German soldiers who didn't have jobs. No, no, he stays in the army. He stays in the army until 1921. He's on the army payroll at the very time in which he is held to set this up.
Well, he'd been in the army during the war, the only regular job that he'd ever had. Kind of liked it. So you often get the view is that, well, at the end of the war, he joined millions of other German soldiers who didn't have jobs. No, no, he stays in the army. He stays in the army until 1921. He's on the army payroll at the very time in which he is held to set this up.
Well, he'd been in the army during the war, the only regular job that he'd ever had. Kind of liked it. So you often get the view is that, well, at the end of the war, he joined millions of other German soldiers who didn't have jobs. No, no, he stays in the army. He stays in the army until 1921. He's on the army payroll at the very time in which he is held to set this up.