Word: hitleritis
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Throughout the last week there has been circulated a persistent and well organized propaganda against Adolph Hitler and his treatment of Jews in Germany. The dictator is alleged to have been the moving spirit behind a persecution incredible in its extent and bitterness, and those who have been most active in dispensing figures and anecdotes have also neglected no opportunity to point the moral of a well adorned tale. Those apocryphal Germans who hacked the hands from helpless little Belgians have been resurrected, and in their new incarnation seem for more terrifying because they are far more plausible...
During the last few days growing protest against the persecution of Jews by the Nazi regime has reverberated in all quarters of the world. Demonstrations have hissed own Hitler's name and condemned his policies. Diplomatic relations with Germany have been subject to considerable strain. In the light of this widespread revlusion of feeling, the action of the Nazis seems quite incomprehensible. There appear to be no very good reasons why they should deliberately antagonize so many people...
...there are several immediate motives behind these pogroms which reveal a method in their apparent madness. For one thing, Hitler means to consolidate his forces around him, and the easiest way to do this is to build up a solid bureaucracy. In order to be this it was necessary to remove all the Jews now holding office, and to fill the vacant places with loyal supporters. Secondly, Hitler was forced at the outset, to give vent to the personal prejudices of his colleagues and the Nazi rank-and-file. Again, the new German dictator is a sufficiently astute politician...
...Holy Russia tried this experiment before, during, and after the World War, and the result was disastrous. Some of the best Jewish brains were driven over to the Communist Party, where they played brilliant and important roles in the successive overthrows of the Czarist, Miliukov, and Kerensky governments. Hitler would do well to take careful note of this example. The Marxist movement is powerful today in Germany; and the Nazis cannot afford to deflect ability and energy to their enemy's camp...
...fourth chapter, he deserts them and goes on to tell of Trotsky who "might almost have been one of those Society of Jesus guys"; and Hitler ("Funny name too! . . .ha, ha, ha!"); as well as good "old Mussolini" snatch babies, "youthies," "giovanni." the outcome is that Trotsky has "the big hips of a buxom nanny and the frowning mask of an emotional Polish pianist," an immense advantage over Mussolini and Hitler ("ha, ha, ha again") who can only shout the magic word "Giovenezza...