See Hitler's Secret Conversations, 1941–1944 ( New York, 1953), pp. But it is difficult to see how the financial difficulties could have been overcome within less than a year after the first purchase of shares, and, in fact, Hitler, reminiscing about the Kampfzeit in 1942, stated that during his prison term (that is, in 1924) he still owned “only a part of the capital,” specifically naming von Sebottendorff as another owner. 16, 1921, indicates that the Party was already sole owner of the VB by the fall of 1921. An entry in the Munich corporation court records for Nov. Just when Hitler managed to do this is not clear. Google Scholar The definitive account of the Eher Verlag is in Hale, Oron J., The Captive Press in the Third Reich ( Princeton, 1964).
For the paper under Sebottendorff, see his memoir Bevor Hitler kam: Urkundliches aus der Frühzeit der nationalsozialistischen Bewegung ( Munich, 1933), chap. Bland and superficial, the book could hardly have given offense to the Party-perhaps it simply was ignored by the German public.
It is difficult to account for the destruction of almost the entire edition. The Hoover Institution's copy of the book has a handwritten note in German stating that all but fifty copies of the edition of five thousand were destroyed, the fifty copies being given to old Party members. For the “prehistory” of the paper-i.e., its history before the Nazis bought it-see Dresler, Adolf, Geschichte des “Völkischen Beobachters” und des Zentralverlages der NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachf ( Munich, 1937), Google Scholar the official Nazi history of the paper.
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