“Hitler said of those who fell at the Feldherrnhalle in 1923: ‘My apostles’. Today at the triumphal and burial ceremonies, the word is: ‘You have risen again in the Third Reich.’ — Further: The buildings in the ‘capital city of the movement’ are only a beginning. We are building ‘a hall for 60,000 (thousand!) people’ and ‘the biggest opera house on the globe.’ And all this in a bankrupt state. — Religious madness and advertising madness. And always the lies accompanying everything. Hitler’s thanks to the Stahlhelm, which has just been dissolved …
On the 2nd we were at the Wenglers … It once again made an enormous impression on me when they put on the radio and leaped from London to Rome, from Rome to Moscow, etc. The concepts of time and space are annihilated. One must become a mystic. For me radio destroys every form of religion and at the same time gives rise to religion. Gives rise to it twice over: (a) because such a miracle exists, (b) because the human intellect invents, explains, makes use of it. But this same human intellect puts up with the Hitler government.”
— Nov. 9, 1935
