BERLIN, June 18 It’s in the bag, signed today in London. The Wilhelmstrasse quite elated. Germany gets a U-boat tonnage equal to Britain’s. Why the British have agreed to this is beyond me. German sub...
At this meeting Ribbentrop also assured Ciano that Munich had revealed the strength of the isolationists in the U.S.A. so that there is nothing to fear from America.10 †
As an escape, I suppose, I read some Goethe letters this afternoon. It was reassuring to be reminded of the devastation of Germany that Napoleon wrought. Apparently Jena, near Goethe’s Weimar, was pre...
And though the very name of the Nazi Party proclaimed it as socialist, Hitler was even more vague on the kind of socialism he envisaged for the new Germany. This is not surprising in view of a definit...
And now, as the fateful summer of 1944 approached, they realized that with the Red armies nearing the frontier of the Reich, the British and American armies poised for a large-scale invasion across th...
They knew also that the Communist underground was directed from Moscow and served chiefly as an espionage source for the Russians.*
The Almighty had called upon him to do in this cataclysmic world and the philosophy, the Weltanschauung, that
Despite one’s inherent distrust of what one learned from Nazi sources, a steady diet over the years of falsifications and distortions made a certain impression on one’s mind and often misled it. No on...
Who were these leaders? What was the strength of the storm troops they were throwing into the streets? And what exactly were they up to? I worked long hours those first weeks in Paris to try to find o...
What they then wanted was an authoritarian Germany which at home would put an end to democratic nonsense and the power of the trade unions and in foreign affairs undo the verdict of 1918, tear off the...
This government was Papen’s conception, his creation, and he was confident that with the help of the staunch old President, who was his friend, admirer and protector, and with the knowing support of h...
The revolt of July 20, 1944, had failed not only because of the inexplicable ineptness of some of the ablest men in the Army and in civilian life, because of the fatal weakness of character of Fromm a...
The power which has always started the greatest religious and political avalanches in history rolling has from time immemorial been the magic power of the spoken word, and that alone. The broad masses...
The man with the Charlie Chaplin mustache, who had been a down-and-out tramp in Vienna in his youth, an unknown soldier of World War I, a derelict in Munich in the first grim postwar days, the somewha...
The individual, as well as the nation, can renounce only those things which are not vital. There you have German character stripped to the bone. A German cannot renounce vital things, but he expects t...
The big businessmen, pleased with the new government that was going to put the organized workers in their place and leave management to run its businesses as it wished, were asked to cough up. This th...
Society has never regarded virtue as anything else than as a means to strength, power and order. The State [is] unmorality organized… the will to war, to conquest and revenge… Society is not entitled...
Since Kemal’s death, Turkey has been ruled by small minds, unsteady, weak men.
People are talking about the action of the British yesterday in sinking three French battleships in Oran to save them from falling into the hands of the Germans. The French, who have sunk to a depth b...
PARIS, August 3 Hitler did what no one expected. He made himself both President and Chancellor. Any doubts about the loyalty of the army were done away with before the old field-marshal’s body was har...