Word: hitleritis
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...queer tool of queer Nazis who used and helped him to set the fire; the legend that Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, now Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment, conceived the idea of firing the Reichstag, blaming Communists for the deed and using it as the excuse for Chancellor Hitler's suppression of the Communist, Socialist and other German parties; the legend that Nazi firebugs escaped down the underground passage connecting the Reichstag with the official residence of General Göring, leaving Van der Lubbe to wave his burning shirt in the Reichstag and be arrested...
...subject. Vigorously the Dutch Crown demanded through diplomatic channels commutation of the death sentence. Germany's law making death the penalty for "seditious arson," argued the Crown, did not exist when the Reichstag was set afire. It was decreed by President von Hindenburg on Cnancellor Hitler's advice next day and made retroactive. To the four acquitted prisoners nothing was plainer than that they stood to be lynched. All submitted gratefully to remaining for the present in "protective custody...
When Housepainter Adolf Hitler was a Gefreiter (lance corporal) in the German army during the War, Carpenter Ignatz Westenkirchner was a private in his squad. Many an afternoon Carpenter Ignatz cleaned his mess kit and read and reread his shirt while Housepainter Adolf talked of the things he was going to do later...
Many a time since then Carpenter Ignatz has remembered those days, particularly in recent months when, with his wife and three children, he has lived in Reading, Pa. and tried vainly to find work. Last summer he wrote to his old Corporal, and Chancellor Hitler remembered too! Last week came a letter from Adolf Hitler with passage money for the whole Westenkirchner family and the promise of a job in Naziism's Mother Church, the Brown House in Munich...
...would have known it!" cried joyful Ignatz Westenkirchner as he sailed on the Hamburg with his broad-beamed wife, their daughters Katherine and Johanna, and Ignatz Jr. "I read in the papers about the Putsch in 1923 when Hitler and Ludendorff tried to take over the Bavarian Government and I was real surprised. It was funny my old korps-bruder being such an important man. But he didn't forget me! "He was a brave and good soldier. I remember him well. He was a small man just about my own age. My own mustache -it's like...