ZEITBLOM HAS EXPRESSED ATTITUDES compatible with fascism and Adrian has rejected these attitudes forcefully. Suddenly, now that politics have entered the scene, Zeitblom is associating Adrian with the extreme fascist position of the Kridwiß Kreis. This association is through his Apocalipsis cum figuris, not through Adrian as a person. The deliberations of the Kridwiß Kreis were particularly convincing, says Zeitblom, because they discussed things in the context of a work of art by a friend of his that was rapidly gaining in popularity in Munich. These discussions amounted to a commentary on the work (DF, 493). This is clearly a reference to Adrian's Apocalipsis cum figuris.

Zeitblom says that he saw a relationship between the confused ideas of the Kridwiß Kreis and the Apocalipsis cum figuris and it occurred to him that the incorporation of Adrian's work would add to the creativity of these discussions, contributing to the realization of their views: “[Es handelt sich um ein Werk,] das gewisser kühner und prophetischer Beziehungen zu jenen Erörterungen nicht entbehrte, sie auf höherer, schöpferischer Ebene bestätigte und verwirklichte” (DF, 470).