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Uruguay had the worst scare, and, like Mexico, went after big fish (see p. 34). A Congressional investigating committee gathered evidence on which it planned to dissolve German organizations and start criminal proceedings against "Fiührer" Julius Dalldorf and other leaders. Before this could be done, German Minister Otto Langmann announced that the Nazi Party and German Labor Front had been voluntarily dissolved. The Government replied by arresting twelve Germans, went ahead with its report, which traced Nazi activities directly to Minister Langmann. Three German gliders, one parachute and a dismantled radio station were found in a Nazi Stutzpunkt...
NEMESIS? THE STORY OF OTTO STRASSER -Douglas Reed-Houghfon Mifflin...
...Otto Strasser was born in Bavaria 42 years ago, of a civil-servant father who was a Socialist at heart, a mother who nagged the Socialism out of him. When he emerged from World War I at 20, Otto was a creditably decorated artillery Lieutenant, already tinged with politics. His Socialism was such that he fought with Von Epp's Free Corps in 1919, to break Munich's Communist government. (Hitler did not. But he was in Munich then, may have been with the Communist troops...
...Otto's brother Gregor knew and trusted Hitler from the first. Otto at first preferred the straight Socialist Party, joined up with Hitler in 1925. Douglas Reed makes of the next five years a picture of spotless, struggling idealism, shows Strasser bearing with Hitler's sellouts to big business as long as possible, walking out (in 1930) when he was sure once for all that National Socialism was betrayed...
Gregor, less astute, stayed in the Party. In 1933 he was within an ace of the Chancellorship; in 1934 he was murdered. Otto, from 1930 on, set to work organizing his Black Front. The top fourth stayed aboveground. The rest took places high & low in every Party except the Communist, and bored from within. When Hitler came into power the whole Black Front went underground or, by thousands, into concentration camps. Otto, melodramatically helped by various Black-Fronters, fled the country, started his years of writing and smuggling through revolutionary flimsies and stickers. In Vienna, in Prague, in Switzerland...