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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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 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.
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...
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 further conferences that late spring the following plan was drawn up. Speidel, almost alone among the Army conspirators in the West, survived to describe it: An immediate armistice with the West...
Demonstrated that the more you owed a country the more business you did with it.
When Hitler brushed past me going down the aisle, he was followed by Himmler, Brückner, Keitel, and several others, all in dusty field-grey. Most of them were unshaven and I must say they looked like...