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In 1933, soon after this strange event, Hitler seized power and
rest, as they say, is history. A clue to exactly what fearsome thing Hitler had witnessed is given by Hitler himself, who said to his circle of intimate friends, of which Rauschning was a part: `The new man is among us! He is here! I will tell you a secret. I have seen
vision of
new man - fearless and formidable. I shrank from him!'
On another occasion, reported by Rauschning, Hitler remarked: `I will tell you a secret. I am founding an Order.' Which is pretty well exactly what Rhodes had set out to do after his illumination. How strange that Rhodes' secret society dedicated to ruling
world should have ultimately become a living reality in
next century in Hitler's SS (Schutzstaffel).
The German scientist, Oswald Spengler, in his ‘Decline and Fall of Civilisation in
West', described
spirit of colonial expansion which possessed Rhodes as something, `daemonic and immense, which grips, forces into service and uses up mankind.' And herein lies
clue to
careers of both Rhodes and Hitler, that at a point in their lives, they both encountered something `daemonic'.
In
years after
end of
First World War, Rhodes began to receive attention from
European political right wing precisely because his career showed such an elemental will to power. In 1918
intellectual prophet of German Nazism, Oswald Spengler, published
first volume his famous work, The Decline of
West. In this book, Spengler regards Rhodes with almost mystical awe, as a prototype of a new sort of leader. 'Rhodes is to be regarded as
first precursor of a western type of Caesar. He stands midway between Napoleon and
force-men of
next centuries... in our Germanic world,
spirits of Alaric and Theodoric will come again - there is a first hint of them in Cecil Rhodes.'
Hitler himself appears to have made only one reference to Rhodes: at a dinner on April 18, 1942, he discussed Britain's failure to maintain
world position it had held in
Victorian age and commented that
only person who had understood
historical conditions for continuing British supremacy was Cecil Rhodes, whom
British had ignored.
'Mr. Rhodes aspired to be
creator of one of those vast semi-religious, quasi-political associations which, like
Jesuits have played so large a part in
history of
world. To be more strictly accurate, he wished to found an Order ... and while he lived, he dreamed of being both its Caesar and its Loyola.' - W.T. Stead”

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