Mastery Over the Movement Summary and Analysis

In part one, Hitler spent Christmas Eve of 1924 with Putzi Hanfstaengl and his family in Munich. Putzi said that Hitler had become relaxed at one point but at another had marched around in irritation, then apologized, saying that he'd become accustomed to thinking that "he was being observed through a peephole." Putzi put the entire situation down to elaborate acting. He said that he'd visited Hitler in prison and that Hitler had never been watched through a peephole and that a peep hole didn't even exist. In part two, a ban has been imposed so that Hitler cannot speak in public though he has succeeded in having the ban against the Nazi Party lifted. The party at this point is smaller than it had been before his prison term but Hitler has shored up the...