the national MY STRUGGLE IOI resurrection, but that the political parties in Parliament never would, for they clung far too closely to obsolete conceptions or had an interest in propping up the new regime. For what had to be proclaimed here was a new theory of the world, and not a new election cry.
After two days of agonized meditation and question¬ ing, I finally made up my mind to take the step. It was the decisive turning point of my life. Retreat was neither possible nor desirable.
That is how I became a member of the German Workers’ Party, and was given a provisional ticket of membership, bearing the number “Seven”.