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-l£0- ! ' .. thet they may have become involved in some minor crira* would, net be inpoEsihle for fianisch tells uti that Hitler frequent- ly spent his time figuring out shady vays of siting money. One example may be of L i ^ . * "He proposed to- fill old tin cane vrith paste and eell ttiea to £hopfceeper&, the paste to - be smeared on windowpaue^ to keep them from freezing in irinter.' It AholiLd be told*.,* in the summerj *hen it couldn't be tried out* I told him i t wouldn't work because the mer- chants would Judt sttyi come back in the win- ter* **• Hitler aDdwtred that one must po£&&B£ a, talent for oratory*™ r Since Hitler co-Id only be brought to work when he was actually hungiy ha spent a good deal of tine rording politicRI pan- phlflte, sittiiig in cafe houses, reftding newspflpers rjyl delivering apaechee to the other innatas of the hone* He bacsfuf a greet ad- • , ntlrer of Geore von tichoenerer and the Viennese Dfiyort Karl It was presumably frta then that he lerjned his anti-Semitism • of the. tricks of fl Encceaaful poll tic ten* According to Had- his companions nere greatly ainUOec by him and Often ridiculed him and hie opiniojif* In &ny event it EMBUS tlmt he got a good denl of practice in speech naming during these years which stood him in good stend later on. iVen in these days*" he-talked about starting a new party,. I t ia not clear why he renwijied in Vlennfi ej>d lived in fluch poverty for five yews, whence had such fl diep lave for Cer- mflny and could hrtve fioiie theru with relatively l i t t l e difficulty- 1 . . . . . . , <, . . It if also not clear rrhy ho went when he did unless there is some truth in the supposition that he fled Vienna to avoid nrreet. Hifl own explanation is that he could not tolerate the mixture of people,' REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES