No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and the advent of Adolf Hitler. The cardinal error of the Germans who oppo...
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...
I suppose every government that has ever gone to war has tried to convince its people of three things: (1) that right is on its side; (2) that it is fighting purely in defence of the nation; (3) that...
Despite all the terror and intimidation, the majority of them rejected Hitler.
Deprived of his trade unions, collective bargaining and the right to strike, the German worker in the Third Reich became an industrial serf, bound to his master, the employer, much as medieval peasant...
But certain difficulties lay in his way if he were himself to lead the counterrevolution, and he was not much interested in it unless he was.
After December 1, horses, cows, and pigs not residing on regular farms are to get food cards too.
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.
1933. Farben scientists had saved Germany from early disaster in the First World War by the invention of a process to make synthetic nitrates from air after the country’s normal supply of nitrates fro...
A. Only such measures should be taken which do not involve danger to German life or property. (For instance synagogues are to be burned down only when there is no danger of fire to the surroundings.)*...
Then yesterday Hitler dispatched an ultimatum: Either carry out the terms of the Berchtesgaden agreement, or the Reichswehr marches. A little after midnight this morning Schuschnigg and Miklas surrend...
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...
Locarno
In the summer of 1931, Otto Dietrich, Hitler’s press chief first for the party and later for the Reich, relates, the Fuehrer suddenly decided to concentrate systematically on cultivating the influenti...
I miss the old Berlin of the Republic, the care-free, emancipated, civilized air, the snubnosed young women with short-bobbed hair and the young men with either cropped or long hair—it made no differe...
Hitler’s scholastic failure rankled in him in later life, when he heaped ridicule on the academic gentry, their degrees and diplomas and their pedagogical airs. Even
Hitler had never made any secret of, was that if the party ever took over Germany it would stamp out a German’s personal freedom, including that of Dr. Schacht and his business friends.
All this was made clear enough to the assembled industrialists and they responded with enthusiasm to the promise of the end of the infernal elections, of democracy and disarmament.
After midnight and no air-raid,
Particularly on the bourgeoisie, which is