There are dark hints too that she was repelled by the masochistic inclinations of her lover, that this brutal tyrant in politics yearned to be enslaved by the woman he loved—a not uncommon urge in suc...
The secret police announced that two men were shot for resisting arrest yesterday. One of them, it is stated, was trying to induce some German workers to lay down their tools in an important armament...
The republican regime, as well as the Marxists and the Jews, was the enemy. And in his peroration he had shouted, To this struggle of ours there are only two possible issues: either the enemy passes o...
The government [Hitler promised] will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures. Neither
The Third Reich which was born on January 30, 1933, Hitler boasted, would endure for a thousand years,9 and in Nazi parlance it was often referred to as the Thousand-Year Reich. It lasted twelve years...
The Reichstag would be asked to pass an enabling act conferring on Hitler’s cabinet exclusive legislative powers for four years. Put even more simply, the German Parliament would be requested to turn...
The Communist press and political meetings were suppressed; the Social Democrat newspapers and many liberal journals were suspended and the meetings of the democratic parties either banned or broken u...
So fell, ignominiously, the modern Roman Caesar, a bellicose-sounding man of the twentieth century who had known how to profit from its confusions and despair, but who underneath the gaudy façade was...
Only then, after all these things had been accomplished within the first couple of hours of the coup, could the messages, which had been drawn up and filed, be sent out by radio, telephone and telegra...
Nietzsche put the idea this way: Man shall be trained for war and woman for the procreation of the warrior. All else is folly. He went further. In Thus Spake Zarathustra he exclaims: Thou goest to wom...
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….
I love books. They connect you with the past and the present, with original minds and noble spirits, with what living has been and meant to others. They instruct, inspire, shake you up, make you laugh...
Himmler announced today that a Polish farm labourer had been hanged for sleeping with a German woman. No race pollution is to be permitted. Another
Henderson, Hitler lapsed into a typical display of sentimental hogwash, though
But Germany is stronger than her enemies realize. True, it is a poor country in raw materials and agriculture; but it is making up for this poverty in aggressiveness of spirit, ruthless state planning...
A people who had so lightly given up their political and cultural and economic freedoms were not, except for a relatively few, going to die or even risk imprisonment to preserve freedom of worship.
Somehow I feel that, despite our work as reporters, there is little understanding of the Third Reich, what it is, what it is up to, where it is going, either at home or elsewhere abroad. It is a compl...
Some time after dinner a newsboy rushed into the lobby of the Ambassador with extra editions of a German-language paper, the only one I can read since I do not know Czech. The headlines said: Chamberl...
PARIS, February 15 The fighting in Vienna ended today, the dispatches say. Dollfuss finished off the last workers with artillery and then went off to pray. Well, at least the Austrian Social Democrats...
Of all the war crimes which he claimed he had to commit on the orders of Hitler the worst of all, General Keitel said on the stand at Nuremberg, stemmed from the Nacht und Nebel Erlass—Night and Fog D...