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Last week the Fatherland was still waiting for Leader Hitler to carve up Wertheim's in Berlin and Germany's other great department stores into cubicles and booths, each tended by a happy shopkeeper. Failure to carry out Plank No. 16 is the more dangerous to Chancellor Hitler's prestige because the Nazi Party claims to be unique in that its entire Platform is "unalterable." Moreover, since most German department stores are owned by Jews, enthusiastic Jew-baiting Nazi Storm Troopers have been asking louder and louder of late, "Why don't we throw the swine...
While Leader Hitler kept mum last week, Minister of Economics Dr. Kurt Schmitt told the Storm Troopers why. "We must destroy as little as possible and build up as much as possible," he sweetly reasoned. "Department stores cannot simply be wiped out of Germany. They employ a quarter of a million people and a billion marks are invested in them...
Since Plank No. 16 is so much a part of the Platform that it can scarcely be torn out with safety, Chancellor Hitler soothed his Storm Troops with a statement issued by Chief Adjutant Rudolf Hess. "Strong measures will be taken if misguided efforts to boycott department stores do not cease," declared Chief Adjutant Hess, "but the Party's attitude toward department stores remains unchanged in principle. Its solution will follow in due course. In view of the Government's fight against unemployment, it is undesirable to undertake at the present time anything calculated to ruin stores which...
...Marinus van der Lubbe alone to have fired the Reichstag, as his confession insisted. Object of the prosecution was to show that the other defendants were his accomplices. Object of the defense was to show that Nazi Storm Troopers instigated and abetted Marinus van der Lubbe, so that Chancellor Hitler could win the March election on the issue of a Communist plot to seize the State...
...Wilhelmstrasse was worried. Ever since the anti-Red Hitler boojum began to frighten the Kremlin, France has been courting Russia, sending first Edouard Harriot (TIME, Sept. 11), then French Air Minister Pierre Cot to Moscow. Berlin last week dared antagonize Moscow no further. The Leipzig police department and the German Foreign Office hastened to send regrets...