19/1/1919

"We need a fellow at the head who can stand the sound of a machine gun. The rabble need to get fear into their pants. 

We can't use an officer, because the people don't respect them any more. 

The best would be a worker who knows how to talk... He doesn't need much brains.... 

He must be a bachelor, then we'll get the women."

- Dietrich Eckart

Founding Member, Thule Society

19/1/1919

"When necessity commands, he does not shrink from bloodshed... In order to reach his goal, he is prepared to trample on his closest friends."

- Rudolf Hess,

Thule Society,

"How Must the Man be Constructed who will lead Germany back to her Old Heights?"

1919

Mosaic pavement of a 6th century "synagogue" at Beth Alpha, Jezreel Valley, northern Israel. It was discovered in 1928. 

Signs of the zodiac surround the central chariot of the Sun (a Greek motif), while the corners depict the 4 "turning points" ("tekufot") of the year, solstices and equinoxes, each named for the month in which it occurs--tequfah of Tishrei, (tequfah of Tevet), tequfah of Ni(san), tequfah of Tamuz.

Eckart opposed the German Revolution in 1918 which he regarded as Jewish-inspired. He also edited the anti semitic periodical Auf gut Deutsch. During this period he became friends with Alfred Rosenberg. In January 1919 he joined with Hermann Esser, Gottfried Feder and Karl Harrer, to form the German Workers Party (GPW). Harrer was elected as chairman of the party. 

On 30th May, 1919, [Thule Society Founding Member and Wartime Head of Reichswer German Army Intelligence] Captain Karl Mayr, was appointed as head of the Education and Propaganda Department. 

He was given considerable funds to build up a team of agents and informants. 

"When I arrived that evening in the guest room of the former Sternecker Brau (Star Corner)... I found approximately 20–25 persons present, most of them belonging to the lower classes. The theme of Feder’s lecture was already familiar to me; for I had heard it in the lecture course... Therefore, I could concentrate my attention on studying the society itself. The impression it made upon me was neither good nor bad. I felt that here was just another one of these many new societies which were being formed at that time. In those days everybody felt called upon to found a new Party whenever he felt displeased with the course of events and had lost confidence in all the parties already existing. Thus it was that new associations sprouted up all round, to disappear just as quickly, without exercising any effect or making any noise whatsoever."

Hitler's account of the Thule Society German Workers Party (GWP) meeting he was sent to spy on by Thule Society co-founder and Reichswer German Army Intelligence Captain Karl Mayr on September 12th 1919

Eckart decided that the GWP needed its own newspaper. Major Ernst Röhm agreed and together they persuaded his commanding officer, Major General Franz Ritter von Epp to purchase the Völkischer Beobachter (Racial Observer) from the Thule Society for 60,000 marks. 

The money came from wealthy friends [already in Thule, or aligned with it] and secret army funds. 

Eckart became the editor of the paper and used it to publicize the policies of the GWP. 

[So, Eckart was a founding member of both the Thule Society (on 19/1/1919) AND the GWP, who then purchased the Racial Observer from the Thule Society (and Eckart) for 60,000 Marks - so this is a fraud to rip off Army funds for a private, political commercial enterprise (of which the Reichswhr no doubt approves anyway]

Later, Ernst Hanfstaengel provided $1,000 to ensure the daily publication of the newspaper. 

 "It became a daily, thus giving Hitler the prerequisite of all German political parties, a daily newspaper in which to preach the party's gospels."

William L. Shirer, 

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1964)