Word: hitlerized
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...Oscar von Hindenburg; the Graf Zeppelin's Dr. Hugo Eckener; Wilhelm II's Nazi son Prince August ("Auwi") Wilhelm; German Olympic Games Heroes Hans Sievert (world's decathlon record holder) and Otto Peltzer (sprinter) ; Munitioneer Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. For the first time newsorgans announced that Adolf Hitler will speak not to the German people but to "his people...
...Before God to Hitler!" In Germany devout Christians, heartened by their priests and pastors, have been called a bulwark against Nazi extremism. To win the votes of these good folk by unctuous conciliation last week was not the strategy of "My Leader." After more than a year of hesitant bickering, German Protestants suddenly felt the whip of Reichs bischof Ludwig Müller, a square-headed, ruthless, onetime army chaplain picked by Catholic Hitler to be their Evangelical Shepherd...
...legislative powers, vesting them in his Church Cabinet and compelling all pastors to take, on pain of expulsion from their pastorates, this oath: "I swear before God, holy and omnipotent, that I will be true and obedient to the leader of the German people and the German State, Adolf Hitler, and that I will offer every sacrifice and service for the good of the German people. Furthermore that I will perform my duties as pastor in accord with the instructions issued by the German Evangelical Church and finally that I will serve my parish loyally...
...What right have you to expect us to have confidence in you? We have faith in Adolf Hitler because he has won it in 15 years of effort. You have nothing behind you but one year of failure. In this oath presented by your legal councilor you are hiding yourself behind Hitler and trying somehow to take refuge in his shadow...
Under the political amnesty "My Leader" pardoned: 1) insults to Adolf Hitler or the German Government; 2) offenses against "the wealthy or prosperous," provided the crime did not originate from "convictions hostile to the race or state";* 3) crimes committed from "excessive zeal" to further Nazi purposes. To ease the plight of Nazi innocents caught in the Roehm Mutiny and not yet "purged" by shooting, "My Leader" especially decreed last week that all imprisoned mutineers shall have their cases "sympathetically re-examined...