Herr Heinrich Spiess was a worried man. He did not seek to conceal1 thefact. He acknowledged, indeed, without concealment2, that the situationwhich these five men had come together to discuss was a serious situation.
At the same time, he brought with him that sense of reassurance3 whichhad been his principal asset in dealing4 with the recently difficult politicallife in Germany. He was a solid man, a thoughtful man, a man who couldbring common sense to any assemblies he attended. He gave no sense ofbeing a brilliant man, and that in itself was reassuring6. Brilliant politicianshad been responsible for about two-thirds of the national states of crisis inmore countries than one. The other third of trouble had been caused bythose politicians who were unable to conceal the fact that although dulyelected by democratic governments, they had been unable to conceal theirremarkably poor powers of judgment7, common sense and, in fact, any no-ticeable brainy qualities.
‘This is not in any sense an official visit, you understand,’ said the Chan-cellor.
‘Oh quite, quite.’
‘A certain piece of knowledge has come to me which I thought is essen-tial we should share. It throws a rather interesting light on certain hap-penings which have puzzled as well as distressed8 us. This is Dr Reichardt.’
Introductions were made. Dr Reichardt was a large and comfortable-looking man with the habit of saying ‘Ach, so’ from time to time.
‘Dr Reichardt is in charge of a large establishment in the neighbourhoodof Karlsruhe. He treats there mental patients. I think I am correct in say-ing that you treat there between five and six hundred patients, am I notright?’
‘Ach, so,’ said Dr Reichardt.
‘I take it that you have several different forms of mental illness?’
‘Ach, so. I have different forms of mental illness, but nevertheless, Ihave a special interest in, and treat almost exclusively one particular typeof mental trouble.’ He branched off into German and Herr Spiesspresently rendered a brief translation in case some of his English col-leagues should not understand. This was both necessary and tactful. Twoof them did in part, one of them definitely did not, and the two otherswere truly puzzled.
‘Dr Reichardt has had,’ explained Herr Spiess, ‘the greatest success in histreatment of what as a layman9 I describe as megalomania. The belief thatyou are someone other than you are. Ideas of being more important thanyou are. Ideas that if you have persecution11 mania10–’
‘Ach, no!’ said Dr Reichardt. ‘Persecution mania, no, that I do not treat.
There is no persecution mania in my clinic. Not among the group withwhom I am specially12 interested. On the contrary, they hold the delusionsthat they do because they wish to be happy. And they are happy, and I cankeep them happy. But if I cure them, see you, they will not be happy. So Ihave to find a cure that will restore sanity13 to them, and yet they will behappy just the same. We call this particular state of mind–’
He uttered a long and ferociously14 sounding German word of at leasteight syllables15.
‘For the purposes of our English friends, I shall still use my term of me-galomania, though I know,’ continued Herr Spiess, rather quickly, ‘thatthat is not the term you use nowadays, Dr Reichardt. So, as I say, you havein your clinic six hundred patients.’
‘And at one time, the time to which I am about to refer, I had eight hun-dred.’
‘Eight hundred!’
‘It was interesting–most interesting.’
‘You have such persons–to start at the beginning–’
‘We have God Almighty16,’ explained Dr Reichardt. ‘You comprehend?’
Mr Lazenby looked slightly taken aback.
‘Oh–er–yes–er–yes. Very interesting, I am sure.’
‘There are one or two young men, of course, who think they are JesusChrist. But that is not so popular as the Almighty. And then there are theothers. I had at the time I am about to mention twenty-four Adolf Hitlers.
This you must understand was at the time when Hitler was alive. Yes,twenty-four or twenty-five Adolf Hitlers–’ he consulted a small notebookwhich he took from his pocket–‘I have made some notes here, yes. FifteenNapoleons. Napoleon, he is always popular, ten Mussolinis, five reincarna-tions of Julius Caesar, and many other cases, very curious and very inter-esting. But that I will not weary you with at this moment. Not being spe-cially qualified17 in the medical sense, it would not be of any interest to you.
We will come to the incident that matters.’
Dr Reichardt spoke18 again at rather shorter length, and Herr Spiess con-tinued to translate.
‘There came to him one day a government official. Highly thought of atthat time–this was during the war, mind you–by the ruling government. Iwill call him for the moment Martin B. You will know who I mean. Hebrought with him his chief. In fact he brought with him–well, we will notbeat about the bush–he brought the Führer himself.’
‘Ach, so,’ said Dr Reichardt.
‘It was a great honour, you understand, that he should come to inspect,’
went on the doctor. ‘He was gracious, mein Führer. He told me that he hadheard very good reports of my successes. He said that there had beentrouble lately. Cases from the army. There, more than once there had beenmen believing they were Napoleon, sometimes believing they were someof Napoleon’s Marshals and sometimes, you comprehend, behaving ac-cordingly, giving out military orders and causing therefore military diffi-culties. I would have been happy to have given him any professionalknowledge that might be useful to him, but Martin B. who accompaniedhim said that that would not be necessary. Our great Führer, however,’
said Dr Reichardt, looking at Herr Spiess slightly uneasily, ‘did not want tobe bothered with such details. He said that no doubt it would be better ifmedically qualified men with some experience as neurologists shouldcome and have a consultation19. What he wanted was to– ach, well, hewanted to see round, and I soon found what he was really interested tosee. It should not have surprised me. Oh no, because you see, it was asymptom that one recognizes. The strain of his life was already beginningto tell on the Führer.’
‘I suppose he was beginning to think he was God Almighty himself atthat time,’ said Colonel Pikeaway unexpectedly, and he chuckled20.
Dr Reichardt looked shocked.
‘He asked me to let him know certain things. He said that Martin B. hadtold him that I actually had a large number of patients thinking, not to puttoo fine a point on it, that they were themselves Adolf Hitler. I explained tohim that this was not uncommon21, that naturally with the respect, the wor-ship they paid to Hitler, it was only natural that the great wish to be likehim should end eventually by them identifying themselves with him. Iwas a little anxious when I mentioned this but I was delighted to find thathe expressed great signs of satisfaction. He took it, I am thankful to say, asa compliment, this passionate22 wish to find identity with himself. He nextasked if he could meet a representative number of these patients with thisparticular affliction. We had a little consultation. Martin B. seemed doubt-ful, but he took me aside and assured me that Herr Hitler actually wishedto have this experience. What he himself was anxious to ensure was thatHerr Hitler did not meet–well, in short, that Herr Hitler was not to be al-lowed to run any risks. If any of these so-called Hitlers, believing passion-ately in themselves as such, were inclined to be a little violent or danger-ous…I assured him that he need have no worry. I suggested that I shouldcollect a group of the most amiable23 of our Führers and assemble them forhim to meet. Herr B. insisted that the Führer was very anxious to inter-view and mingle24 with them without my accompanying him. The patients,he said, would not behave naturally if they saw the chief of the establish-ment there, and if there was no danger…I assured him again that therewas no danger. I said, however, that I should be glad if Herr B. would waitupon him. There was no difficulty about that. It was arranged. Messageswere sent to the Führers to assemble in a room for a very distinguishedvisitor who was anxious to compare notes with them.
‘Ach, so. Martin B. and the Führer were introduced into the assembly. Iretired, closing the door, and chatted with the two ADC’s who had accom-panied them. The Führer, I said, was looking in a particularly anxiousstate. He had no doubt had many troubles of late. This I may say was veryshortly before the end of the war when things, quite frankly25, were goingbadly. The Führer himself, they told me, had been greatly distressed oflate but was convinced that he could bring the war to a successful close ifthe ideas which he was continually presenting to his general staff were ac-ted upon, and accepted promptly26.’
‘The Führer, I presume,’ said Sir George Packham, ‘was at that time–Imean to say–no doubt he was in a state that–’
‘We need not stress these points,’ said Herr Spiess. ‘He was completelybeyond himself. Authority had to be taken for him on several points. Butall that you will know well enough from the researches you have made inmy country.’
‘One remembers that at the Nuremberg trials–’
‘There’s no need to refer to the Nuremberg trials, I’m sure,’ said MrLazenby decisively. ‘All that is far behind us. We look forward to a greatfuture in the Common Market with your Government’s help, with the Gov-ernment of Monsieur Grosjean and your other European colleagues. Thepast is the past.’
‘Quite so,’ said Herr Spiess, ‘and it is of the past that we now talk. MartinB. and Herr Hitler remained for a very short time in the assembly room.
They came out again after seven minutes. Herr B. expressed himself to DrReichardt as very well satisfied with their experience. Their car was wait-ing and he and Herr Hitler must proceed immediately to where they hadanother appointment. They left very hurriedly.’
There was a silence.
‘And then?’ asked Colonel Pikeaway. ‘Something happened? Or hadalready happened?’
‘The behaviour of one of our Hitler patients was unusual,’ said DrReichardt. ‘He was a man who had a particularly close resemblance toHerr Hitler, which had given him always a special confidence in his ownportrayal. He insisted now more fiercely than ever that he was the Führer,that he must go immediately to Berlin, that he must preside over a Councilof the General Staff. In fact, he behaved with no signs of the former slightamelioration which he had shown in his condition. He seemed so unlikehimself that I really could not understand this change taking place so sud-denly. I was relieved, indeed, when two days later, his relations called totake him home for future private treatment there.’
‘And you let him go,’ said Herr Spiess.
‘Naturally I let him go. They had a responsible doctor with them, he wasa voluntary patient, not certified27, and therefore he was within his rights.
So he left.’
‘I don’t see–’ began Sir George Packham.
‘Herr Spiess has a theory–’
‘It’s not a theory,’ said Spiess. ‘What I am telling you is fact. The Russiansconcealed it, we’ve concealed28 it. Plenty of evidence and proof has come in.
Hitler, our Führer, remained in the asylum29 by his own consent that day anda man with the nearest resemblance to the real Hitler departed with Mar-tin B. It was that patient’s body which was subsequently found in thebunker. I will not beat about the bush. We need not go into unnecessarydetails.’
‘We all have to know the truth,’ said Lazenby.
‘The real Führer was smuggled30 by a pre-arranged underground route tothe Argentine and lived there for some years. He had a son there by abeautiful Aryan girl of good family. Some say she was an English girl.
Hitler’s mental condition worsened, and he died insane, believing himselfto be commanding his armies in the field. It was the only plan possibly bywhich he could ever have escaped from Germany. He accepted it.’
‘And you mean that for all these years nothing has leaked out about this,nothing has been known?’
‘There have been rumours31, there are always rumours. If you remember,one of the Czar’s daughters in Russia was said to have escaped the generalmassacre of her family.’
‘But that was–’ George Packham stopped. ‘False–quite false.’
‘It was proved false by one set of people. It was accepted by another setof people, both of whom had known her. That Anastasia was indeed Ana-stasia, or that Anastasia, Grand Duchess of Russia, was really only a peas-ant girl. Which story was true? Rumours! The longer they go on, the lesspeople believe them, except for those who have romantic minds, who goon believing them. It has often been rumoured32 that Hitler was alive, notdead. There is no one who has ever said with certainty that they have ex-amined his dead body. The Russians declared so. They brought no proofs,though.’
‘Do you really mean to say–Dr Reichardt, do you support this extraordin-ary story?’
‘Ach,’ said Dr Reichardt. ‘You ask me, but I have told you my part. It wascertainly Martin B. who came to my sanatorium. It was Martin B. whobrought with him the Führer. It was Martin B. who treated him as theFührer, who spoke to him with the deference33 with which one speaks to theFührer. As for me, I lived already with some hundreds of Führers, of Na-poleons, of Julius Caesars. You must understand that the Hitlers who livedin my sanatorium, they looked alike, they could have been, nearly all ofthem could have been, Adolf Hitler. They themselves could never have be-lieved in themselves with the passion, the vehemence34 with which theyknew that they were Hitler, unless they had had a basic resemblance, withmake-up, clothing, continual acting35, and playing of the part. I had had nopersonal meeting with Herr Adolf Hitler at any previous time. One sawpictures of him in the papers, one knew roughly what our great geniuslooked like, but one knew only the pictures that he wished shown. So hecame, he was the Führer, Martin B., the man best to be believed on thatsubject, said he was the Führer. No, I had no doubts. I obeyed orders. HerrHitler wished to go alone into a room to meet a selection of his–what shallone say?– his plaster copies. He went in. He came out. An exchange ofclothing could have been made, not very different clothing in any case.
Was it he himself or one of the self- appointed Hitlers who came out?
Rushed out quickly by Martin B. and driven away while the real mancould have stayed behind, could have enjoyed playing his part, could haveknown that in this way and in this way only could he manage to escapefrom the country which at any moment might surrender. He was alreadydisturbed in mind, mentally affected36 by rage and anger that the orders hegave, the wild fantastic messages sent to his staff, what they were to do,what they were to say, the impossible things they were to attempt, werenot, as of old, immediately obeyed. He could feel already that he was nolonger in supreme37 command. But he had a small faithful two or three andthey had a plan for him, to get him out of this country, out of Europe, to aplace where he could rally round him in a different continent his Nazi38 fol-lowers, the young ones who believed so passionately39 in him. The swastikawould rise again there. He played his part. No doubt, he enjoyed it. Yes,that would be in keeping with a man whose reason was already tottering40.
He would show these others that he could play the part of Adolf Hitler bet-ter than they did. He laughed to himself occasionally, and my doctors, mynurses, they would look in, they would see some slight change. One pa-tient who seemed unusually mentally disturbed, perhaps. Pah, there wasnothing in that. It was always happening. With the Napoleons, with the Ju-lius Caesars, with all of them. Some days, as one would say if one was alayman, they are madder than usual. That is the only way I can put it. Sonow it is for Herr Spiess to speak.’
‘Fantastic!’ said the Home Secretary.
‘Yes, fantastic,’ said Herr Spiess patiently, ‘but fantastic things can hap-pen, you know. In history, in real life, no matter how fantastic.’
‘And nobody suspected, nobody knew?’
‘It was very well planned. It was well planned, well thought out. The es-cape route was ready, the exact details of it are not clearly known, but onecan make a pretty good recapitulation of them. Some of the people whowere concerned, who passed a certain personage on from place to placeunder different disguises, under different names, some of those people, onour looking back and making inquiries41, we find did not live as long as theymight have done.’
‘You mean in case they should give the secret away or should talk toomuch?’
‘The SS saw to that. Rich rewards, praise, promises of high positions inthe future and then–death is a much easier answer. And the SS were usedto death. They knew the different ways of it, they knew means of dispos-ing of bodies–Oh yes, I will tell you that, this has been inquired into forsome time now. The knowledge has come little by little to us, and we havemade inquiries, documents have been acquired and the truth has comeout. Adolf Hitler certainly reached South America. It is said that a mar-riage ceremony was performed– that a child was born. The child wasbranded in the foot with the mark of the swastika. Branded as a baby. Ihave seen trusted agents whom I can believe. They have seen thatbranded foot in South America. There that child was brought up, carefullyguarded, shielded, prepared–prepared as the Dalai Lama might have beenprepared for his great destiny. For that was the idea behind the fanaticalyoung, the idea was greater than the idea that they had started out with.
This was not merely a revival43 of the new Nazis44, the new German superrace. It was that, yes, but it was many more things besides. It was theyoung of many other nations, the super race of the young men of nearlyevery country in Europe, to join together, to join the ranks of anarchy45, todestroy the old world, that materialistic46 world, to usher47 in a great newband of killing48, murdering, violent brothers. Bent49 first on destruction andthen on rising to power. And they had now their leader. A leader with theright blood in his veins50 and a leader who, though he grew up with nogreat likeness51 to his dead father, was–no, is–a golden-haired fair Nordicboy, taking presumably after the looks of his mother. A golden boy. A boywhom the whole world could accept. The Germans and the Austrians firstbecause it was the great article of their faith, of their music, the youngSiegfried. So he grew up as the young Siegfried who would commandthem all, who would lead them into the promised land. Not the promisedland of the Jews, whom they despised, where Moses led his followers52. TheJews were dead under the ground, killed or murdered in the gas cham-bers. This was to be a land of their own, a land gained by their ownprowess. The countries of Europe were to be banded together with thecountries of South America. There already they had their spearhead, theiranarchists, their prophets, their Guevaras, the Castros, the Guerrillas, theirfollowers, a long arduous53 training in cruelty and torture and violence anddeath and after it, glorious life. Freedom! As Rulers of the New WorldState. The appointed conquerors54.’
‘Absurd nonsense,’ said Mr Lazenby. ‘Once all this is put a stop to–thewhole thing will collapse55. This is all quite ridiculous. What can they do?’
Cedric Lazenby sounded merely querulous.
Herr Spiess shook his heavy, wise head.
‘You may ask. I tell you the answer, which is–they do not know. Theydon’t know where they’re going. They don’t know what is going to be donewith them.’
‘You mean they’re not the real leaders?’
‘They are the young marching Heroes, treading their path to glory, onthe stepping-stones of violence, of pain, of hatred56. They have now their fol-lowing not only in South America and Europe. The cult5 has travellednorth. In the United States, there too the young men riot, they march, theyfollow the banner of the Young Siegfried. They are taught his ways, theyare taught to kill, to enjoy pain, they are taught the rules of the Death’sHead, the rules of Himmler. They are being trained, you see. They are be-ing secretly indoctrinated. They do not know what they’re being trainedfor. But we do, some of us at least. And you? In this country?’
‘Four or five of us, perhaps,’ said Colonel Pikeaway.
‘In Russia they know, in America they have begun to know. They knowthat there are the followers of the Young Hero, Siegfried, based on theNorse Legends, and that a young Siegfried is the leader. That that is theirnew religion. The religion of the glorious boy, the golden triumph ofyouth. In him the old Nordic Gods have risen again.
‘But that, of course,’ said Herr Spiess, dropping his voice to a common-place tone, ‘that of course is not the simple prosaic57 truth. There are somepowerful personalities58 behind this. Evil men with first-class brains. A first-class financier, a great industrialist59, someone who controls mines, oil,stores of uranium, who owns scientists of the top class, and those are theones, a committee of men, who themselves do not look particularly inter-esting or extraordinary, but nevertheless have got control. They controlthe sources of power, and control through certain means of their own theyoung men who kill and the young men who are slaves. By control ofdrugs they acquire slaves. Slaves in every country who little by little pro-gress from soft drugs to hard drugs and who are then completely subservi-ent, completely dependent on men whom they do not even know but whosecretly own them body and soul. Their craving60 need for a particular drugmakes them slaves, and in due course, these slaves prove to be no good,because of their dependence61 on drugs, they will only be capable of sittingin apathy62 dreaming sweet dreams, and so they will be left to die, or evenhelped to die. They will not inherit that kingdom in which they believe.
Strange religions are being deliberately63 introduced to them. The gods ofthe old days disguised.’
‘And permissive sex also plays its part, I suppose?’
‘Sex can destroy itself. In old Roman times the men who steeped them-selves in vice64, who were oversexed, who ran sex to death until they werebored and weary of sex, sometimes fled from it and went out into thedesert and became Anchorites like St Simeon Stylites. Sex will exhaust it-self. It does its work for the time being, but it cannot rule you as drugs ruleyou. Drugs and sadism and the love of power and hatred. A desire for painfor its own sake. The pleasures of inflicting65 it. They are teaching them-selves the pleasures of evil. Once the pleasures of evil get a hold on you,you cannot draw back.’
‘My dear Chancellor–I really can’t believe you–I mean, well–I mean ifthere are these tendencies, they must be put down by adopting strongmeasures. I mean, really, one–one can’t go on pandering66 to this sort ofthing. One must take a firm stand–a firm stand.’
‘Shut up, George.’ Mr Lazenby pulled out his pipe, looked at it, put itback in his pocket again. ‘The best plan, I think,’ he said, his idée fixe reas-serting itself, ‘would be for me to fly to Russia. I understand that–well, thatthese facts are known to the Russians.’
‘They know sufficient,’ said Herr Spiess. ‘How much they will admit theyknow–’ he shrugged67 his shoulders–‘that is difficult to say. It is never easyto get the Russians to come out in the open. They have their own troubleson the Chinese border. They believe perhaps less in the far advancedstage, into which the movement has got, than we do.’
‘I should make mine a special mission, I should.’
‘I should stay here if I were you, Cedric.’
Lord Altamount’s quiet voice spoke from where he leaned rather wear-ily back in his chair. ‘We need you here, Cedric,’ he said. There was gentleauthority in his voice. ‘You are the head of our Government–you must re-main here. We have our trained agents–our own emissaries who are qual-ified for foreign missions.’
‘Agents?’ Sir George Packham dubiously68 demanded. ‘What can agents doat this stage? We must have a report from–Ah, Horsham, there you are–Idid not notice you before. Tell us–what agents have we got? And what canthey possibly do?’
‘We’ve got some very good agents,’ said Henry Horsham quietly. ‘Agentsbring you information. Herr Spiess also has brought you information. In-formation which his agents have obtained for him. The trouble is–alwayshas been–(you’ve only got to read about the last war) nobody wishes to be-lieve the news the agents bring.’
‘Surely–Intelligence–’
‘Nobody wants to accept that the agents are intelligent! But they are, youknow. They are highly trained and their reports, nine times out of ten, aretrue. What happens then? The High-Ups refuse to believe it, don’t want tobelieve it, go further and refuse to act upon it in any way.’
‘Really, my dear Horsham–I can’t–’
Horsham turned to the German.
‘Even in your country, sir, didn’t that happen? True reports werebrought in, but they weren’t always acted upon. People don’t want to know–if truth is unpalatable.’
‘I have to agree–that can and does happen–not often, of that I assureyou–But yes–sometimes–’
Mr Lazenby was fidgeting again with his pipe.
‘Let us not argue about information. It is a question of dealing–of actingupon the information we have got. This is not merely a national crises–it isan international crisis. Decisions must be taken at top level–we must act.
Munro, the police must be reinforced by the Army– military measuresmust be set in motion. Herr Spiess, you have always been a great militarynation–rebellions must be put down by armed forces before they get outof hand. You would agree with that policy, I am sure–’
‘The policy, yes. But these insurrections are already what you term “outof hand”. They have tools, rifles, machine- guns, explosives, grenades,bombs, chemical and other gases–’
‘But with our nuclear weapons–a mere42 threat of nuclear warfare69–and–’
‘These are not just disaffected70 schoolboys. With this Army of Youththere are scientists–young biologists, chemists, physicists71. To start–or toengage in nuclear warfare in Europe–’ Herr Spiess shook his head.
‘Already we have had an attempt to poison the water supply at Cologne–Typhoid.’
‘The whole position is incredible–’ Cedric Lazenby looked round himhopefully–‘Chetwynd–Munro–Blunt?’
Admiral Blunt was, somewhat to Lazenby’s surprise, the only one to re-spond.
‘I don’t know where the Admiralty comes in–not quite our pigeon. I’dadvise you, Cedric, if you want to do the best thing for yourself, to takeyour pipe, and a big supply of tobacco, and get as far out of range of anynuclear warfare you are thinking of starting as you can. Go and camp inthe Antarctic, or somewhere where radio-activity will take a long timecatching up with you. Professor Eckstein warned us, you know, and heknows what he’s talking about.’
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