Sometimes I asked myself: Why can’t I call Hitler my friend? What is missing? … When [Dietrich] Eckart died in 1923 there remained four men with whom Hitler used the Du of close friendship: Hermann Esser, Christian Weber, Julius Streicher, and Ernst Roehm.
Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich, (New York, Simon & Schuster, 1970), 100-101.
