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...mattered little where the other one was, whether quavering in a Bavarian mountain fastness or raving mad in the tomb of Berlin-or dead, as the Hamburg radio this week reported. For him, too, the curtain had come down...
When Germany declared war and even the Social Democrats voted the war credits, Hitler was transported. Since he was an Austrian, he asked for and received permission to join a Bavarian regiment. The war was wonderful. The army was more wonderful. Hitler was made a corporal, received an Iron Cross, was wounded, and later gassed. While he was recuperating in a hospital near Berlin, news came of the German Revolution of 1918, and of the Armistice that was to save Germany from Allied invasion. Hitler buried his face in his pillow and wept. Then he decided to give...
...more step was necessary: the newly minted politician must find a political party. Hitler found it in the German Workers' Party, a tiny group which the Bavarian Reichswehr officers had sent him to observe. He became member No. 7 of the little party which was later to become the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis). He found an impressionistic economic program in the scrambled economic theories of another member, Gottfried Feder. And he found something much more important - his voice. One night a visitor said some friendly words about Jews. Without thinking twice, Hit ler burst forth...
...Germans themselves fought desperately enough. Vienna was the gateway to the Austrian and Bavarian Alps. It would have to hold if the Nazi hope of retreat to an Alpine redoubt was to be something more than the last act of a suicide. The Germans had labored mightily to build Vienna's defenses. In the orchard country to the south, cherry and apricot trees spread their blossoms over zigzagged trench works. On the heights at the north of the city the Germans had massed their guns to fire over the parks and palaces into the industrial suburbs...
...defeat were insoluble. A decree by Hitler last week divorced Nazi Party duties from local government affairs. The German radio said that it was done to free busy Nazi officials from the burden of local administration. More probably, it was to free them for flight to their last-ditch Bavarian bastion...