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Deputy Fuhrer: Rudolf Hess...
...Rudolf Hess, No. 3 Nazi and deputy leader of the party, the hirsute anti-Semite who in 1923 was Hitler's beer-hall Putsch-mate...
...take off this uniform until we have achieved victory. . . . However, if something should happen to me; I want the German people to know that I have appointed Field Marshal Göring to become my successor. If something should happen to Field Marshal Göring, my deputy Rudolf Hess, will take his place; and if something should happen to Hess, a senate which I will soon appoint, will elect his successor, the man most worthy to succeed me-that is to say, the bravest...
...Chancellor Hitler returned grim-faced to Berlin from Berchtesgaden and called off his Tannenberg speech-scheduled for Sunday-things seemed to take a turn for the worse. There was no great cheering crowd at the Chancellery. Cafes were practically empty. Nerves grew taut. Over the radio Nazi Deputy Rudolph Hess openly talked of the chance of war, roared that if it comes, "it will be terrible." In the Pankow District School some children heard the howl of a siren, remembered their air raid instructions, filed rapidly out. But it was only a factory whistle down the street...
There was a Nazi demonstration last week at Tiegenhof, in the rich meadow land across the Vistula, but it scarcely compared to the turnout which had already been staged for such Nazi bigwigs as Field Marshal Hermann Göring and Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess. Against the Poles, who are outnumbered by Germans 24-to-1 but who run the public services in Danzig, Adolf Hitler can never lay the complaint that they suppressed Germanity in the Free City. But despite the surface calm, Poles could list last week numerous serious complaints against Germans. It was these which...