“GOLD PHEASANTS”
Historically, every country’s ruling political party has appointed its own members to the highest positions of government. In multi-party republics, this one-sidedness is kept under control by a series of checks and balances. But in a dictatorship, members of the ruling leader’s circle are placed in key spots to insure complete control. Such was the case when Adolf Hitler and the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei” (NSDAP — Nazi Party) took over the government of Germany in 1933.
Nazi party members had been included in one of the 46 groups vying for power in the post-WWI Weimar Republic. But rather than being just members of a political organization, many National Socialists became completely mesmerized by the “mystical cult” of Hitler and his dreams of an Aryan utopia. These ardent members were willing to go to any extreme to further the unethical ambitions of Hitler and his (Leader’s principal). Hitler’s declarations became laws, rubber-stamped (parliament) thus bypassing normal parliamentary procedure. To keep this idea of an ongoing, fanatical revolution alive among the German people and to enforce the stream of ever changing decrees flowing from Berlin, Hitler depended on his corps of political leaders.
