(ibid.)12 Minutes of the meeting (ibid.)13 Strasser to Hess, Jun 18 (ibid.)14 Holtz, of Gauuntersuchungs- und Schlichtungsausschuss (Uschla), to Hitler, Jun 17 (ibid.)15 Bruno Heinemann, minute on meeting with JG, Hitler, Hess, Jun 21, 1927 (ibid.)16 Police file (NA film T581, roll 52; BA file NS.26/1224). In Aug 1930 the SupremeCourt in Leipzig began an investigation of JG’s speech as an incitement to treason. JG citedHermann Esser as a witness that he had not uttered the words alleged. Assize Court JudgeBraune to Police HQ Munich, Aug 13, 21, 1930 and Jan 19, 1931 (ibid.), and see Prussianministry of the interior, minute on the NSDAP, Feb 1932 (BA file R.18/3864; IFZ, ED.4)17 JG leader in Angriff, Oct 5, 1930; and Kampf um Berlin, 1934, 136.GOEBBELS. MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICH 12718 VB, Jul 14, 1927; cit. in minute of Feb 1932.19 JG, Der Nazi-Sozi.. Fragen und Antworten für den Nationalsozialisten (Franz Eher Verlag,Munich, 1927); JG mentions it in his diary as early as Oct 17, 1926.20 The Prussian ministry of the interior commented (loc. cit) that the Elberfeld courts hadordered Der Nazi-Sozi confiscated on Jan 30, 1928; the case against JG was dropped on Aug31, 1928 in a general amnesty. See too Angriff, Nov 21, 1931.21 Speech on Sep 14, 1927; cit. in Prussian minute of Feb.1932.22 Puns on his name: e.g., references to Edelweiss in Angriff No.25, 1927, and to his policeas ‘Weiss-Guards’.23 Angriff, No.26, 1930, ‘He whose name one may not utter, like the name of the God whois honoured and prayed to in the temples of his homeland;’ Bering, 275f.24 Bering, 79ff, disputes that Weiss was humourless; I disagree.25 Aug 15, 1927; Apr 8, Jun 18, Oct 29, 1928; Mar 11, May 6, 1929.26 JG, ‘Isidor,’ in Angriff, No.7, Aug 15, 1927; republished in JG’s anthology, Der Angriff.Aufsätze aus der Kampfzeit (Franz Eher Verlag, Munich, 1936), 307ff.27 Dokumente, 268.28 Diary (unpubl.) Feb 18, 128 (Moscow, JG papers, box 2).29 Eher Verlag to NSDAP Hauptarchiv, Jul 5, 1937 (NA film T581, roll 47; BA file NS.26/968) Documents in the Hauptarchiv dated Feb 27 and Apr 23, 1936 give these quarterlyaverage print figures: III/31, 68,600; IV/31, 58,300; I/32, 68,300; II/32, 107,300; III/32,108,300; IV/32, 110,600; I/33, 103,500; II/33, 119,300; III/33, 100,600; IV/33, 92,000.JG’s diary gives different figures, a circulation of 80,000 (Mar 12, 1931) and 90,000 (Aug12, 1931)30 Albertus Magnus Society files. It had taken them until Nov 12, 1927 to find JG, nowliving at No 79/II Frege Strasse in Berlin-Friedenau.31 Krebs, 161.32 JG to Ilse Pröhl, Nov 16, 1927 unpubl.; on NS Briefe letterhead (R Hess papers,Hindelang).33 Diary, Jan 19, 22, 23; Feb 4, 1928; the unpublished diary Jan—Apr 1928 is in theMoscow archives, JG papers, Fond 1477, box 5.34 Ibid., Feb 18, 1928.35 Ibid., Mar 16, 1928.36 Police file.37 Grzesinski MS; Weiss boasted he had 429,686 fingerprint sets on file: B. Weiss, ‘25 JahreKriminalpolizei,’ in Die Polizei, (Berlin, 1928), 212.38 JG, Das Buch Isidor: Ein Zeitbild voll Lachen und Hass; diary, Feb 20, Mar 3.39 Diary, Feb 24, 1928.40 Ibid., Feb 26, 1928.41 JG to the courts, Mar 12, 1928, Landesarchiv Berlin, Rep.58, item 24, vol..viii, 8.42 Diary, Mar 12, 23, 24, 26; Apr 2, 1928; Landesarchiv Berlin, Rep.58, item 302.43 Landesarchiv Berlin, Rep.58, item 24, vol.vii, 16.44 Diary, Mar 24, 1928.45 JG to prosecutor, Apr 17, 23, Aug 6, 1928 (Landesarchiv Berlin, Rep.58, item 24, vol.i)128 GOEBBELS. MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICH46 Regierungsdirektor Wündisch to state prosecutor, Apr 23, 1928 (ibid., vol.iv); Bering,306.47 Diary, Apr 28, 1928; op.cit., item 24.48 Diary, May 4, 5, 12, 13, 1928.49 Angriff, Sep 9, 1929.50 Diary, Jun 5, 1928; Berliner Tageblatt, Jun 4; Rote Fahne, Jun 7; Bering, 77.51 Angriff, Jun 11, 1928; Landesarchiv, Rep.58, item 23. Weiss also prosecuted Ernst Schulz,Angriff’s printer: ibid, item 28.52 Diary, Apr 14, 1928.53 Gau history (BA file NS.26/133).54 Diary, Apr 16, 20, 1928.55 Ibid., Apr 17, May 11, 1928.56 Ibid., Apr 20, 1928.57 Ibid., Apr 22, 1928.58 Ibid., May 17, 19, 1928; and K Daluege, ‘Zehn Jahre Berliner S.A.,’ spring 1935, in hispapers, BA file R.19/377 (‘Dr Goebbels mit an unserer Spitze.’)59 Diary, Feb 26, Apr 3, 1928.—Born Apr 12, 1895, Stennes was an army officer in Aug1914, formed the Hacketau Freikorps on Jan 1, 1919, employed by Berlin police HQ Jul 19,1919, promoted to police captain Jun 12, 1920, resigning Jan 28, 1922; joined NSDAP Dec20, 1927. See ‘Hauptmann Stennes. Ein alter Geheimbündler und Verschwörer’ in VorwärtsNr.411, Sep 3, 1930 and ibid, Oct 15, 1929, and 8 Uhr Abendblatt Berlin No.78, Apr 2, 1931;NSDAP Hauptarchiv file on Stennes (BA: NS.26/1368).60 Stennes MS and interview, Jul 29, 1968 (IfZ, ZS.1147)61 Diary, Apr 5, 14; May 10, 16, 1928.62 Cit. by Manvell & Fraenkel.63 Diary, May 22, 1928.GOEBBELS. MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICH 129
Goebbels8: Anka is to BlameTHERE WERE disadvantages in having such a high profile. On June 19, 1928 theCatholic charity again wrote to Goebbels from Cologne, suggesting now thathe pay off his ten-year-old debt at fifty marks per month. Their letter was returnedendorsed ‘delivery refused.’He had resumed the feud with Dr Weiss at once. DO YOU BELIEVE THAT ISIDOR IS BEHAVINGHIMSELF? his newspaper headlined. ‘Yes, indeed: Isidor,’ Goebbels repeated. ‘I’lldefy the ban. Under the cowardly protection of immunity I’ll name names. Isidor!The o must be long drawn out, and the r rolled until this name reverberates withinexpressible sweetness and power. The Gift of the East!’1Try as he could, Dr Weiss could not nail him. His prey always dodged in time.More items were clipped into the police dossier: Munich police were chargingGoebbels with illegal fund raising; Berlin police heard him announce on May 13,‘The present state is a dungheap and the police president a Jew’; an action was pendingfor ‘incitement to class war’; and there were countless breaches of press regulations.2 The court hearing of the Pastor Stucke case in June lasted all day. Goebbelsspoke for two hours; the six week sentence was reduced to a fine of six hundredmarks. ‘A Jew, Löwenstein, sat on the judge’s bench,’ he observed, ‘otherwise weshould probably have got
