179. In August 1938, after a lengthy conversation with Hitler about his marital problems with Magda, Goebbels would note in his diary: ‘The Führer is like a father to me’ (TBJG, I/6, 44 (16 August 1938).
180. TBJG, I/3, 266 (14 September 1937).
181. See Sereny, 109, 138–9, 156; and Joachim C. Fest, Speer. Eine Biographie, Berlin, 1999, 459ff.
182. TBJG, I/3, 221 (1 August 1937).
183. Sereny, ch.5.
184. See Gerhard Weinberg (ed.), Hitlers Zweites Buch. Ein Dokument aus dem Jahr 1928, Stuttgart, 1961, 129–30 for his views on the USA. In his view, only a strong, racially purified Germany, built up on the principles of National Socialism, could combat the USA in the contest for world hegemony that would inevitably occur in the distant future. See also Milan Hauner, ‘Did Hitler want a World Dominion?’, JCH, 13 (1978), 15–32, especially 24.
185. See TBJG, I/3, 104, 115, 119, 236, 261, 316, 321, 325 (10 April 1937, 17 April 1937, 20 April 1937, 15 August 1937, 10 September 1937, 28 October 1937, 2 November 1937, 4 November 1937). See in general on Hitler’s monumental building plans, and their connection with his Utopian goals of domination, Jochen Thies, Architect der Weltherrschaft. Die ‘Endziele’ Hitlers, Dusseldorf, 1976; and Jochen Thies, ‘Hitlers European Building Programme’, JCH, 13 (1978), 413–31.
186. TBJG, I/3, 119 (20 April 1937). Hitler had revealed his schemes for the rebuilding, including the gigantic hall, a few days earlier (TBJG, I/3, 115 (17 April 1937)).
187. TBJG, I/3, 236, 316 (15 August 1937, 28 October 1937).
188. TBJG, I/3, 261 (10 September 1937).
189. David Irving, The Secret Diaries of Hitler’s Doctor, paperback edn, London, 1990, 31.
190. Irving, Doctor, 34.
191. Irving, Doctor, 35.
192. Irving, Doctor, 30, 36.
193. Irving, Doctor, 38.
194. TBJG, I/3, 177, 224 (18 June 1937, 3 August 1937).
195. Irving, Doctor, 38.
196. Irving, Doctor, 18.
197. Domarus, 745.
198. Domarus, 661–768; Milan Hauner, Hitler. A Chronology of his Life and Time, London, 1983, 116–23.
199. Domarus, 667. Following his speech, the Reichstag, without formalities, unanimously renewed the Enabling Act for a further four years (Domarus, 676). In this same speech, Hitler advanced the German demand for colonies (Domarus, 673). The colonial question would be raised on a number of occasions during 1937 (see, for example, TBJG, I/3, 46 (16 February 1937)), but largely for tactical reasons. (See Domarus, 759.) Hitler told Goebbels that he had consciously included colonial demands in his proclamation to the Reich Party Rally in order to demonstrate greater assertiveness to the outside world (TBJG, I/3, 258 (8 September 1937). His unchanged interest was not in the reacquisition of colonial territory in Africa, but in a continental empire in eastern Europe. See Hildebrand, Vom Reich zum Weltreich, 501–2; Klaus Hildebrand, Das vergangene Reich. Deutsche Außenpolitik von Bismarck bis Hitler 1871–1945, Stuttgart, 1995, 640; and Hauner, Hitler, 120 for Hitler’s reported comments in The Times, 13 September 1937, on the colonial question.
200. Domarus, 690.
201. Domarus, 705–6.
202. Domarus, 765. For Hitler’s plans for Berlin, see Speer, 87–90; Thies, Architekt, 95–8. The metaphor of a ‘thousand-year Reich’ was a play on the chiliastic religious traditions of the coming heavenly Reich associated with millenarian mystics such as Joachim di Fiore. Wolfgang Benz, Hermann Graml, and Hermann Weiß (eds.), Enzyklopädie des Nationalsozialismus, Stuttgart, 1997, 435, 757; Cornelia Schmitz-Berning, Vokabular des Nationalsozialismus, Berlin, 1998, 607.
203. Domarus, 715–32, here 717.
204. For Hitler’s use of the term in this speech, see Domarus, 730.
205. Domarus, 728, 731.
206. Schroeder, 78–9.
207. TBJG, I/3, 45 (16 February 1937).
208. See Ian Kershaw, Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich: Bavaria, 1933– 1945, Oxford, 1983, 216.
209. On the struggle over denominational schools, see, especially, Franz Sonnenberger, ‘Der neue “Kulturkampf”. Die Gemeinschaftsschule und ihre historischen Voraussetzungen’, in Martin Broszat, Elke Fröhlich, and Anton Grossmann (eds.), Bayern in der NS-Zeit, vol.3, Herrschaft und Gesellschaft im Konflikt, Munich/Vienna, 1981, 235–327; see also Kershaw, Popular Opinion, 209ff.
