Beginning of Political Activity
assumed, simply as a matter of feeling, without knowing it to be so, now proved true: I could “speak.” And my voice had improved enough so that people could always understand me, at least in the small barrack room.
No task could have made me happier than this: now, before being discharged, I could do useful service for the institution which had been so close to my heart—the army.
And I could truthfully speak of success: in the course of my lectures I led back hundreds, probably thousands of my comrades to their people and Fatherland. I “nationalized” the troops, and was able in this way to help strengthen the general discipline.
And in the process again I became acquainted with a number of like-minded comrades, who later began to form part of the center of the new movement.
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