Where did Otto Strasser say the following"
Adolph Hitler enters a hall, he sniffs th air for a minute, and he
gropes, feels his way, senses the atmosphere.  Suddenly he bursts
forth, his words go like an arrow to their target. He touches each
private wound on the raw, liberating the mass unconscious."

Greetings SgtSquash:

At the site http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/e/eichmann-adolf/transcripts/Sessions/Session-006-007-008-02.html,
the page titled "The Trial of Adolf Eichmann - Sessions 6-7-8 - (Part
2 of 10)" quotes the source as "Hitler and I" as being written by Otto
Strasser and cites pp. 74-7 as the location in the book:

"I have been asked many times what is the secret of Hitler's
extraordinary power as a speaker. I can only attribute it to his
uncanny intuition, which infallibly diagnoses the ill from which his
audience is suffering. If he tries to bolster up his argument with
theories or quotations from books he has only imperfectly understood,
he scarcely rises above a very poor mediocrity. But let him throw away
his crutches and step out boldly, speaking as the spirit moves him,
and he is promptly transformed into one of the greatest speakers of
the century...

"Adolf Hitler enters a hall. He sniffs the air. For a moment he
gropes, feels his way, senses the atmosphere. Suddenly he bursts
forth...

"His words go like an arrow to their target, he touches each private
wound on the raw, liberating the mass unconscious, expressing its
innermost aspirations, telling it what it most wants to hear."


On the site http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERstrasser.htm is
another reference to the quote being from that book but no pages are
cited.


On the site http://www.yrbe.edu.on.ca/~mkvlss/chong/hit.html is the
article "Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party: 1919–1929 " and a portion of
the same passage is quoted there with reference to Otto but not the
book:

"One of his bitterest critics, Otto Strasser, wrote: 'Hitler responds
to the vibration of the human heart with the delicacy of a
seismograph…Adolf Hitler enters a hall.  He sniffs the air.  For a
minute he gropes, feels his way, senses the atmosphere.  Suddenly he
bursts forth, his words go like an arrow to their target… he touches
each  private wound on the raw, liberating the mass unconscious,
expressing the innermost aspiration, telling it what it most wants to
hear.'"


Read more about the Strasser Brothers (Otto and Gregor) and their
influence at http://www.rosenoire.org/articles/hist13.php


Amazon sells an English translation of Strasser's "Hitler and I" for
$49.50 at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/040416997X/qid=1051299181/sr=1-6/ref=sr_1_6/104-2338222-6685551?v=glance&s=books
- there may be used copies available as well.


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have provided, please request it and I will be happy to respond.


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