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[1936]
April 25 [1936]
On the 25th I spoke for the second time at the Ordensburg Crössinsee to the Kreisleiter. It gave me deep satisfaction to see how engaged they were. But also how they understood when I dispelled several still widespread historical ideas. My inner rigor has cost me years of struggle and “stress” [Belastung] but has mentally brought victory in all the battles of the Party.
​In the evening I then sat together with the Kreisleiter for a long time: the questions they kept asking demonstrated their inner participation in the ideological struggle. The Kreisleiter from the Eifel said among other things that I have no idea at all how greatly I am revered, precisely in this “politically conservative region.” In addition, he said, the following took place during the election. A 62-year-old Catholic priest came to him and said: Herr Kreisleiter, I have now become convinced that the battle against Rome must be fought to the end. Never again will a German be pope, and the creations of cardinals in recent times also show that the papacy today is a Roman national religion, with which we can no longer have anything to do.” In other words, the very thing that I had portrayed in the Myth as desirable for the future! As recently as 1932 the priest in question had his bells rung so loudly during a gathering of our people in the market square that not a word uttered by the speaker could be understood.​
This story reminded me of another. An old Nazi was on good terms with the rector of a Catholic seminary. And whenever he visited him, the rector pulled out the Myth from the bottom drawer of his desk, from the very back.
​On the 24th the Führer dedicated the three Ordensburgen, and I had the pleasure of being able to ascertain that my remarks the day before were in complete harmony with his. Right at the outset he noted