Abstract

Flight from Self-Made Terror

This article focuses on the book "Flight From Terror," by Otto Strasser and Michael Stern. It has long been a riddle why so few splits have occurred between National Socialist leaders. However, memoirs of anti-Adolf Hitler Nazis seem to furnish an explanation, namely, that men capable of a real change of mind had no chance of gaining a high position in the party in the first place. This indispensable real change of mind is shockingly absent in the newest autobiographical outgiving of one of Hitler's former top men, Otto Strasser. Otto Strasser is sometimes mentioned as a possible candidate for an important role in the post-war set-up. But a man's desire to kill Hitler because of Hitler's desire to kill him does not make him acceptable.