I myself saw clearly that, as far as the Movement, then in its infancy, was concerned, the question of War Guilt must be cleared up on the lines of historical truth.
There is naturally much temptation for any weak Movement to act and shout with the crowd at moments when a strong opponent has succeeded in deceiving and driving the people to come to some lunatic decision, especially if it contains a few points—even if illusory— in favour of doing so, from the point of view of that young Movement.
I have experienced such cases on several occasions, when the utmost energy was required to prevent the ship from drifting in the general current started by artificial means, or indeed driving along with it. The last occasion was when our infernal Press, the Hecuba of the German nation’s life, succeeded in giving the South Tyrol question a prominence which will have serious consequences for the German nation. Without considering what cause they were serving, several so-called “nationalist” men, parties and societies joined in the cry, simply from fear of the public feeling excited by the Jews, and foolishly gave their support in a struggle against a system which we Germans ought, especially just at the present crisis, to regard as the one bright spot in this corrupt world. Whilst the international world-Jew is slowly but surely strangling us, our so-called “patriots” are raging against the Man and a System that have had the courage to tear themselves free, in one bit of the world at least, from the Jew-Freemason embrace, and to oppose the international world-poison with the forces of nationalism.
It soon became evident that our opponents, especially when debating with us, were armed with a definite repertoire of arguments and that their points against our claims kept constantly recurring in their speeches ; this similarly pointed to conscious and unified training. And so it was in fact. To-day I am proud of having discovered the means not only of making their propa¬ ganda ineffectual, but also of beating the framers of it with their own words. Two years later I was a master of the craft.