Word: hitlerized
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...Goebbels in the old, crude days of Adolf Hitler's rise to power used to say that nothing was so good for a hostile editor as "one litre of castor oil" (slightly over one quart) administered by Storm Troopers who then waited and guffawed at the result. Such tactics, copied from Mussolini, were often better than beating, but Dr. Goebbels has no need of them today. He held in his thin, knob-knuckled hands last week a new National Press Law making it a crime to practice journalism in Germany except as a licensed member of a nationwide closed...
...dream of every farmer-that the State should grant him immunity from ever being dispossessed for debt-suddenly came true for thousands of broad-faced German rustics last week as Chancellor Hitler promoted them by decree to the status of a new, exclusive and highly privileged class...
...mere "farmer," the new decree sets up a vast Nazi bureau topped by an imposing Agrarian Supreme Court. Members of the new peasantry cannot be dispossessed for debt. Neither can their crops or goods of any sort be seized by private creditors. In the words of Chancellor Hitler's decree, "the peasantry are lifted out of the capitalist system...
Perfectly logical from the Nazi standpoint, this "lifting" springs from Adolf Hitler's firm belief that his State must strive to create a "pure German race" and that the race today is purest among rustic homesteaders unpolluted by the "Jewish Marxism" to be found in German towns. By setting apart and pampering the peasants Leader Hitler hopes to rear an "aristocracy of blood...
Resolved to make his uplifted peasant class an "eternal aristocracy" Chancellor Hitler wound up his epochal decree by providing that no peasant may sell or divide his homestead and must bequeath it at death to one sole heir. Jews, being considered ipso facto without honor, were barred from ever inheriting either a peasant homestead or any German farm land whatsoever...