Word: hitlerized
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Meanwhile Chancellor Hitler had telephoned from Munich to the Nazi Governor of Hanover, an apparently blameless young man with a good war record, Herr Viktor Lutze. "I appoint you to succeed Roehm!" barked the Chancellor into the telephone. "You are the new Storm Troop Chief of Staff...
Popping into his plane Herr Hitler then flew to Berlin. To the astonishment of correspondents, he alighted arm in arm with Propaganda Minister Dr. Goebbels whom they had supposed to be in hiding since he had been called "the brains of Roehm" and was rumored in Berlin to be the intellectual head of Storm Troop discontent...
Grinning, Dr. Goebbels limped back into his Propaganda Ministry and resumed charge of the German Press which soon printed a list of Hitler "Commandments" to be communicated by Staff Chief Viktor Lutze to Storm Troops...
These revealed orgies costing 30,000 marks per month at Berlin Storm Troop Headquarters, the hiring of expensive limousines with party funds and other extravagances which Adolf Hitler, a teetotaler, vegetarian and non-smoker ordered stopped. "In particular," enjoined gentle Adolf, "I would like every mother to be able to give her sons to the S. A. without fear that they would become more or less corrupted. I want to see the S. A. leaders men and not laughable monkeys...
Since the German people heard only the Hitler side of events last week, their reaction was to decide that the Chancellor had at last proved himself a Strong Man, purged his Party of its worst element and emerged with enhanced prestige. In Paris the indiscreet entourage of tabasco-tongued Foreign Minister Louis Barthou dropped broad hints that further trouble and the fall of Chancellor Hitler are expected and that the foreign policy of France has been based on these expectations for months...