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...form of do-nothing pacifism. "The House of Lords," says Kraus, ". . . was . . . the stronghold of pro-Nazi sympathies-with the Labor Lords, in their pacifism, closely allied with Fascist-minded peers." Britons were afraid even to diagnose the disease of which the great General-Strike of 1926 and Munich were cognate symptoms. Hitler made the diagnosis, calculated his tactics with clinical precision. But Hitler made one mistake-the sick man was not incurable...
Twin passions of Fritz Todt's life are engineering and Adolf Hitler. Just out of the University of Munich he served in World War I, joined the Nazi Party in 1923, remained a devoted and inconspicuous disciple, at length became a Standard-bearer in the Storm Troops. He worked as a construction engineer for a road-building company until the Nazis came to power...
...engineer is a soft-spoken handsome man of 49 who prefers the tweed coat, breeches and boots of an engineer on the job to his medal-decked Storm Trooper's uniform. Seldom seen in public, he spends the time he can spare from his multiplicity of jobs in Munich with his wife and five children. Subordinates like his lack of ceremony, call him "our Doctor...
...Brains is an ancient American institution, streamlined to the nines by Adolf Hitler. So ingeniously did he wage this war that he won every one of the first battles of diplomacy, from the audacious occupation of the Rhineland down through Munich. The first time Hitler lost a diplomatic battle, he had to go to war. The U.S. brain war has been fought from an almost exactly reverse position. The U.S. has lost every diplomatic battle so far, except for Latin America...
...Duino in Austria, he was brusquely, briefly seized by inspiration of a blinding ferocity. While it held him he began those Duino Elegies which he thenceforth regarded as the crowning work of his life. But with the war, apathy shut over him. "A born noncombatant," he mainly vegetated in Munich, more & more dependent on the friendship of ladies, writing letters (TIME, June 10, 1940) which combine elegance with self-pity. In the War Ministry, his job was to rule lines on to pay-sheets, "a duty he discharged with meticulous neatness, clad in a fancy-dress uniform...