Word: hitlerized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...interested men may witness in Austria variations upon a theme by Hitler. It has come to be accepted as a law of social development that a waning capitalism will attack and destroy evolutionary social democracy. The corpse of the Austrian Socialist Party is being divided between the Dollfuss fascists and the pro-German Nazis. Its press has been silenced, its power is being alienated, and now reports have it that large numbers of its members are going over to the Nazis. It makes no difference whether Dollfuss or the Nazis win; both represent the inevitable triumph of capitalism by violence...
HRANAHEE! A pandemonium of sirens, alarm bells and whistles brought all Warsaw business to a stop, just before Chancellor Hitler received in Berlin the new Polish "Goodwill Minister," suave M. Jozef Lipski. WHAM! Enemy planes scored direct hits on Warsaw's main railway station with confetti bombs as station employes touched off cannon crackers and released a flock of pigeons. Clang! Clang! Fire engines dashed through Warsaw to pretend to put out fires which blazed on the roofs struck by confetti bombs. The crackling, roaring flames were real but they belched from flame pots always under control...
Morning after, weary Warsawites read in their papers that while their capital was being "attacked" Herr Hitler and M. Lipski had had a most amicable conversation in Berlin. They kept off the subject of the Polish Corridor which Germany would like to have and Poland is resolved to keep. In purely general but significant terms they issued a communique which, while binding nobody, contained an oral non-aggression pledge. "Germany and Poland," they declared, "renounce any use of force in their mutual relations...
Always quarrelsome, Warsaw editors were instantly at each other's throats in interpreting the Lipski-Hitler communique. "It does not inspire even the most moderate optimism," gloomed the conservative Kurjer Warszawski. But the also conservative Gazeta Polska hailed it as "one of the most important events of the last 15 years, in view of the fact that Polish-German relations have been generally regarded as the tinder box of Europe...
...twice when he asserts that German Protestantism ran up against two inflexible tenets of Naziism: the elevation of nationalism above everything, and the sanctification of the German nordics ueber allies. That is true, quite true, but the antagonism is more deeply laid than that The path of Protestantism in Hitler's land is in close parallel with the fate of Christianity in Russia. No religion espousing spiritual individualism and political liberalism can hope to stand against the rush of the Religion of the State. At every turn, if it is true to itself, it will clash directly with autocrat...