Walter Tießler was an early Nazi who held a variety of positions in the propaganda apparatus before and after the Nazis took power. In an essay, published in the party's monthly for political leaders, he previews the winter 1937/38 propaganda campaign of the Reichspropagandaleitung, the party's office for propaganda. Following the Führer's directives, we want to focus on conceited resistance on the part of some people today, which comes from an inability to give up habits that no longer are appropriate for our day. We must demand that these people, too, follow the example of the Führer, who models idealism for us, and therefore demands it from every people's comrade. (source: Walter Tießler, "Redner formen die Volksseele " Der Hoheitsträger 3 (January 1939), pp. 25-26.)

In instructing people to follow Hitler's directives the master-propagandist Tießler seems to have been plagarising the words of the Nazi philosopher and propagandist Martin Heidegger. Labelled by his teenage student mistress as "an inveterate liar" the "family man" Heidegger was a Jesuitically trained academic who had four or five years earlier made a speech and written a pamphlet appropriately called: "Follow the Führer." His speech was perfectly in keeping with the procedure of Nazi propaganda, which was that the most proven and effective method of indoctrination was word-of-mouth contact using speakers and public meetings.

In addition to ridding the university of its Jewish staff and barring his old mentor and supporter Edmund Husserl from the library Führer-Principal of Freiburg University Heidegger (a Nazi title he assumed with alacrity) was plainly an enthusiast who avidly espoused the Führer-principle also insisted that his student's give him the Hitler salute in his classes. "Threefold - Heil - Heidegger" also called a public meeting in which he urged the workers of Freiburg to behave in accordance with the megalmaniac Nazi Führer Adolf Hitler, the architict of the subsequent concentration camps and the final solution.

Heidegger was a crazed Nazi fanatic who, like some volunteer right-wing overzealous scoutmaster clad in lederhosen used to march off his students on a long hike to his hillside Hutte, carrying a swastika flag for a weekend of "political instruction" in which they too were urged by the pint-sized "philosopher" to Follow the Führer.

Here are some of the words of "advice" contained in his "Follow the Führer* rant formed by the foam-flecked lips of a nasty little man dubbed by naive Western academic thurifers of his transcendental fantasies as: "The greatest philosopher of the twentieth century."

1. And your duty is to take the employment, and perform thae tasks, in whatever manner the Führer of our new state demands. (Heidegger - Follow the Führer)

In a chilling reference to what would late become a Hitlerian land-grab of Polish and Russian territories with the aim of enslaving the citizens as human tools of the Third Reich

2. Because through the National Socialist State our entire German reality has been altered, and that means altering all our previous ideas and thinking too. You must know the implications of the fact that eighteen million Germans belong to the Gernman people, but not to the German State because they live beyond the state frontiers.
(Heidegger - Follow the Führer)

Unable to resist a casting a slur at German Jewish citizens he snipes:

3. Knowledge means being in the place where we are put.
(Heidegger - Follow the Führer)

4. For in what that resolve demands, we are but following the glorious will of our Führer. To become one of his loyal following means to desire wholeheartedly and undeviatingly that the german people may once more find its growing unit, its true worth and true power, and may procure thereby its endurance and greatness as a work State.

                            To the man of this unprecedented resolve, our Führer Adolf Hitler,

                                                                    let us give a threefold "Heil!"

(Heidegger - Follow the Führer) Translated by D. D. Runes.