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Britain, said the Führer, taking up his old refrain, had refused to make peace with him. "I wanted the closest friendship with England. I thought the Germanic races should go together. If England had agreed, good. They did not agree. Also good. If England says that the war...
Shy and unhappy, Dale made few friends, immersed himself in the study of difficult languages-Assyrian, Catalan, Hungarian. For relaxation, he joined the Verein Turmwächter (Harvard's German Club), became its treasurer. With fellow club members, he spoke German, drank beer, sang German songs, heard German speakers...
Psychiatrists missed a fat chance years ago, when a neurotic little house painter held customers in Vienna's cheap restaurants spellbound as he harangued against the Jews. Last week psychiatrists at Manhattan's teeming Bellevue Hospital had what looked like a ghost of that earlier chance. Jew-baiting...
Many German propaganda post-cards are shown, including a special set of cards on the theme of "Gott Strafe England," with high-colored illustrations of zeppelin raids on England and representations of Germanic deities wreaking vengeance on the island kingdom.
GERMANY Seven years ago, sitting in his gloomy chateau at St. Gilles in eastern France, Johannes Thomasset, a gentleman farmer, spare-time poet, Francophobe and "passionate lover" of all things Germanic, dreamed of Burgundian knights of old, of Gundicar and Gunderic, who, coming from Germany, carved a kingdom for themselves...