OPEN   COMBAT
Party members present immediately rose and left the
hall in protest.
Meanwhile I had been waiting in the street, and my
friends had kept me informed of what had been
happening inside. We went at once to Blank's home,
and to Buchrucker's. No notification of any kind had
arrived.
That night I saw my brother.
'Gregor, since Hitler does not dare to break openly
with me, I shall break with him. To-morrow I leave
the Party.'
'Very well,' said Gregor.   ^CI must stay.'
We said good-bye.
On July 3 I sent Hitler the following ultimatum:
'Herr Goebbels has expelled certain of my colleagues
from the Party; at yesterday's meeting, on the flimsiest
of pretexts, he deprived others of their right to speak.
If these measures are not revoked within the next
twenty-four hours I shall consider myself and my
friends to have broken with the Party.'
The telegram remained unanswered.
On July 4, 1930, I had ceased to belong to the
National-Socialist Party of Germany.
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