36 Joseph Goebbels, 'Die Straue', Nationalsozialistische Briefe, No. 17, 1st June 1926. On his appointment to Berlin, see Goebbels, Kampf um Berlin. Hitler himself had later emphasized that with this appointment the history of the National Socialist movement 'essentially began, since what had happened earlier was only its pre-history'; see Domarus, Hitler, Vol. I.