…All prisoners with tattooing on them were ordered to report to the dispensary… After the prisoners had been examined the ones with the best and most artistic specimens were killed by injections. The...
This morning I noticed something very interesting. I was having breakfast in the garden of the Dreesen Hotel, where Hitler is stopping, when the great man suddenly appeared, strode past me, and went d...
The government [Hitler promised] will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures. Neither
The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it. At the crest of their popular strength, in July 1932, the National Socialists had attained but 37 per cent o...
Soviet foreign policy turns out to be as imperialist as that of the czars. The Kremlin has betrayed the revolution.
Rommel hesitated and finally made his decision. I believe, he said to Stroelin, it is my duty to come to the rescue of Germany. At this meeting and at all subsequent ones which Rommel had with the plo...
Our introduction to Hitler’s Third Reich this evening was probably typical. Taking the day train from Paris so as to see a little of the country, we arrived at the Friedrichstrasse Bahnhof at about te...
One of the appalling aberrations of the German officer corps from this point on rose out of this conflict of honor—a word which, as this author can testify by personal experience, was often on their l...
Marvin found that German clergymen had taken to wearing clerical collars made of paper. They cost eight cents, can be worn inside out the second day, and are then thrown away….
Like most great revolutionaries he could thrive only in evil times, at first when the masses were unemployed, hungry and desperate, and later when they were intoxicated by
In Nazi parlance, educated meant intimidated—to a point where all would accept docilely the Nazi dictatorship and its barbarism.
Hitler had lost no time in exploiting the Reichstag fire to the limit. On the day following the fire, February 28, he prevailed on President Hindenburg to sign a decree for the Protection of the Peopl...
Although millions more had jobs, the share of all German workers in the national income fell from 56.9 per cent in the depression year of 1932 to 53.6 per cent in the boom year of 1938.
A totalitarian dictatorship, by its very nature, works in great secrecy and knows how to preserve that secrecy from the prying eyes of outsiders.
VIENNA, March 11–12 (4 a.m.) The worst has happened! Schuschnigg is out. The Nazis are in. The Reichswehr is invading Austria. Hitler has broken a dozen solemn promises, pledges, treaties. And Austria...
Thus was parliamentary democracy finally interred in Germany. Except for the arrests of the Communists and some of the Social Democratic deputies, it was all done quite legally, though accompanied by...
This crude, cowardly bargain seems not to have unduly bothered Hitler. If Mussolini was personally attracted to him, as Ciano said, by something deeply rooted in his make-up, it might be said that the...
The wounded Goering was given first aid by the Jewish proprietor of a nearby bank
The street gangs, in the words of Alan Bullock, had seized control of the resources of a great modern State, the gutter had come to power. But—as Hitler never ceased to boast—legally, by an overwhelmi...
The racial laws which excluded the Jews from the German community seemed to a foreign observer to be a shocking throwback to primitive times, but since the Nazi racial theories exalted the Germans as...