Adolph Hitler Mein Kampf (My Struggle)

party on it. In doing this they are shameless enough to assure the 
unthinking public that for a long time they had intended to take 
the same line of action as the other has now taken, and frequently 
they succeed in thus placing themselves in a favourable light, 
instead of arousing the general disapprobation which they justly 
deserve. For it is a piece of gross impudence to take what has 
already been inscribed on another's flag and display it on one's 
own, to steal the programme of another, and then to form a 
separate group as if all had been created by the new founder of 
this group. The impudence of such conduct is particularly 
demonstrated when the individuals who first caused dispersion 
and disruption by their new foundation are those who – as 
experience has shown – are most emphatic in proclaiming the 
necessity of union and unity the moment they find they cannot 
catch up with their adversary's advance.
It is to that kind of conduct that the so­called 'patriotic 
disintegration' is to be attributed.
Certainly in the years 1918 – 1919 the founding of a multitude of 
new groups, parties, etc., calling themselves 'Patriotic,' was a 
natural phenomenon of the time, for which the founders were not 
at all responsible. By 1920 the National Socialist German Labour 
Party had slowly crystallized from all these parties and had 
become supreme. There could be no better proof of the sterling 
honesty of certain individual founders than the fact that many of 
them decided, in a really admirable manner, to sacrifice their 
manifestly less successful movements to the stronger movement, 
by joining it unconditionally and dissolving their own.

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This is specially true in regard to Julius Streicher, who was at 
that time the protagonist of the German Socialist party in 
Nürnberg. The National Socialist German Labour Party had been 
founded with similar aims in view, but quite independently of the 
other. I have already said that Streicher, then a teacher in 
Nürnberg, was the chief protagonist of the German Socialist