Dietrich Eckart. U organizacyjnych i ideowych podstaw nazizmu (1919–1923)
Dietrich Eckart. At the Organizational and Ideological Foundations of Nazism (1919–1923)

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the significance and the role played by Dietrich Eckart – a German poet and a political writer from Munich – for the development on Adolf Hitler’s early political career and for the shaping of political views of the future leader of the Third Reich. As the author concludes, Eckart’s influence on Hitler’s political activity and ideas during the first few years after World War One would be difficult to overestimate. Eckart proved himself then to be one of the most important mentors of Hitler – as his teacher, adviser and supporter who made it possible for the latter to make valuable and useful contacts in nationalist intellectual, military and industrial circles of Bavaria. To a significant degree, Hitler borrowed from Eckart, who was an ardent Anti-Semite, a number of arguments against Jews and accusations leveled against them. Hitler also partly based his criticism of the democratic system in Germany after World War One on Eckart’s views which were sharply hostile towards the Weimar Republic. Eckart was one of the very few people from Hitler’s closest ranks towards whom the future leader of Germany managed to show – in Mein Kampf – gratitude and respect for the former’s support and aid during the first few years of the existence of the Nazi organization.

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