As an autobiography, Speak, Memory is the tragic account, by now only too well known, of the Russian
White emigre experience of having to leave Russia after the Revolution of 1917, sometimes forever, and having to eke out a living in Berlin, Paris, or elsewhere.
"Later on," the author concludes, "Rosenberg helped in the formation of national-socialist ideology by synthesizing Germanic volkish ideas and White emigre views" (42).
It is indicative that Scheubner Richter (and I repeat, to call him a White emigre is nonsense) took part in the congress of Russian extreme rightists in May 1921 in Bad Reicheshalle (Bavaria), making his speech in both German and Russian, greeting the gathering on behalf of German right-nationalist monarchist circles, and expressing hopes for joint reconstruction work and the reconstruction of a great and powerful Russia (146-47).
Michael Kellogg, The Russian Roots of Nazism: White Emigres and the Making Of National Socialism, 1917-1945.
Kellogg underlines the role of the "White emigres" Scheubner-Richter, Vinberg, and Rosenberg and of Dietrich Eckart, the volkish ideologue closely involved with them, in the elaboration of Nazi ideology and especially its absorption of anti-Bolshevism and antisemitism, in particular the theory of a world-Jewish conspiracy (chapters 8, 217-44, esp.
Not one of the above-mentioned "White emigres" who influenced to some degree the formation of the Nazi ideology ever took part in the White movement.
How little the author understands the essence of the White movement appears, for example, in this statement: "Hitler continued to use White emigres, especially Ukrainian nationalists, to destabilize Soviet rule after the failure of the Hitler/Ludendorf Putsch" (245, italics added).