he made two promises with obvious honesty: the revival of the great war game of 1914 to 1918 and a repetition of the triumphal anarchic looting of 1923. In other words, his subsequent foreign policy and economic policy. He did not promise these things in so many words. Sometimes he even pretended to deny them (as he did in his later ‘peace speeches’). He was understood all the same. It won him his true disciples, the kernel of the Nazi Party. He appealed to the two great experiences which had marked the younger generation.
