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...fellow," says a Briton who was there. Like all who spoke for a bona fide anti-Nazi group, Schumacher was told he could go ahead. He rallied Socialists around him, whipped up interest across Germany, paved the way for a national convention, the first for the Socialists since the Weimar days. There was no question who was boss, but there was a basic decision to be made...
...Grotewohl, who had sat with Schumacher in the Reichstag, argued for the coalition. After all, they said, Communists and Socialists are ideological brothers. "Yes," Schumacher would reply, "like Cain & Abel." He detested the Communists as much as he had the Nazis, and blamed their war against Socialists in the Weimar days for Hitler's rise to power. Even Western occupation officials, still dazzled by the wartime alliance with Russia, pressed him to cooperate with the Communists. One day, after Schumacher had made a particularly violent anti-Communist speech, he was summoned to a high Western official's office...
...mentioning, among others, the man whose name he always pronounced 'Awl-jur'-with a kind of drawling pleasure, for he took an almost parental pride in Alger Hiss. Then, with a little inclusive wave of his pudgy hand, he summed up. 'Even in Germany under the Weimar Republic,' said Peters, 'the party did not have what we have here...
Purse-lipped, stiff-necked Dr. (of economics) Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht,* the seeming epitome of bankerly rectitude, has always known how to land right side up. Under Kaiser Wilhelm II he was an ardent nationalist; when the Weimar Republic was popular, he was an ardent Democrat and president of the Reichsbank; when Hitler's strength grew, he became an ardent Nazi: "I met Hitler and told...
Over the years, the corporations have withstood more than one setback. The Weimar Republic made dueling a criminal offense, but the practice still kept on. The Nazis banned the corporations, but they managed to survive. After the war, occupation authorities banned them again, but they merely went underground, and the rules against them began to relax...