Word: hitlerized
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Tramp, tramp, tramp 150 Saxon theological students marched into town, brown uniformed and carrying complete Army equipment, even campaign knapsacks. Wags called them "God's New Storm Troops." Newly enrolled, they had been sent by onetime Corporal Adolf Hitler as a guard of honor for his leather-lunged friend, onetime Army Chaplain Ludwig Müller. recently elected Evangelical Bishop of the State of Prussia (TIME, Aug. 21). Last week Dr. Müller was about to mold what amounted to a new German Evangelical Church. He wanted no trouble, no backsliding at the last moment by conscience-stricken...
Though the Synod is Protestant and Adolf Hitler of course is Catholic, Reichsbischof Müller told the churchmen that "Our Chancellor appears to us as a gift from God." Recalling, somewhat left-handedly, Martin Luther's great declaration of the equal freedom and value of all men in the sight of God, Reichsbischof Müller tacked on this Nazi amendment : "Equality before God does not exclude inequality among men, which is also willed by God. For this reason all non-Aryans* must be barred from holding office in the church...
...Adolf Hitler snared the votes of Germany's enormous petty shopkeeper class by promising in famed Plank No. 16 of the Nazi Party Platform: ''Immediate communalization of the large department stores and their rental at low cost to small merchants...
...progress of the arson trial in Germany has brought the Nazi's to a somewhat embarrassing dilemma. As every well-informed family knows, immediately after the burning of the Reichstag Hitler's party came to power, on the pretext that Communists had fired the building, that this was the last straw, Germany must awake! etc. And having eradicated the opposition they proceeded to erect the totalitarian state based on scrupulous unfairness. But now, obeying an incongruous twirk of conscience, they have decided to use legal processes to discover and convict those they accuse of the crime. This was a mistake...
Although England and France have long had the courage to realize that German reparations are dead, they are now offering to hand over the new Lausanne indemnity of $720,000,000, swelled from their own exchequers and those of Italy and Belgium to about a billion dollars. Before Herr Hitler's government has forgotten this old-fashioned agreement, it would be well for Washington to accept this ten per cent payment from Europe to liquidate the debt. The thorny responsibility of collecting from Germany would not be America's, however fruitless the attempt...