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INr LA riON BREEDS PANIC, DISUNITY 4 RED VOTE BEATS HITLER TROOFS CURB UPRISING
1923-32: Discontent and disunity created those seeds, which sprouted as Adolf Hitler's National
Socialist party, founded in Munich in 1920. His 1923 Beer Hall Putsch failed and Hitler retired to lick
his wounds; Von Hindenburg'i presidency started in 1925. Conflicting political groups held armed truce.
Strengthened German troops marched back Into the RuV, and the nation bought Ave years of prosperity
with money borrowed from U. S. and Britain. But as depression it the world, inflation spiraled up
ward, soup kitchens appeared and worker-communists broke out into open bloody revort. Elections
became open warfare between the increasingly strong Communist and Nazi parties. The Reds had
their biggest and last victory when Hitler was defeated in the 1932 elections, while the fearful gov-
ernment vainly tried to stop the revolutionary .tide with martial law. -
M. V Chancellor Hitler and President Von Hindenburg. In 193S.
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Hitler and Goebbels, in 1930.
'THE RISE TO POWER (1924-36):
Hitler, Himmler and other military leaders, 193C.
After his release from orison, in Hitla. lutfan ki-
party ana gamer nis nencnmenM9oermg and Goebbels were amonc -the UrtL a
puwci iui tcu nraoHii von ninaenDurg to appoint nim as chancellor of the Reich. The reign of
terror began, with the burning of the Reichstag, arrest of SOO Communists, suppression of newspapers
and other political parties.. All civil liberties were banished, and with the creation of the Gestapo by
Goering, the bloody persecution of the Jews began. . .
Hitler quit the League of Nations and disarmament conference, and in 1934 signed a non-aggression
pact with jittery Poland. Hitler became President on Von Hindenburg's death that year and
assumed the title of "Fuehrer."
During. 1935 annexation of the Saar, creation of the Luftwaffe under Goering, and breaking of the
Versailles treaty all presented sharp contradiction to the Fuehrer's ,1933 Reichstag speech, when he
shouted, "Germany wants nothing that she is not ready to give to others. 'The German people have
" uiwugii, vi iiivaumg any t.vuiiu.r.
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HITLER IN AS CHANCELLOR NAZI POMP AND RITUAL APPEALS TO GERMAN PEOPLE
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COMMUNISTS HUNTED
NAZIS BURN "ANTI-GERMAN" BOOKS
1933-35 Hitler forced the aged and sick Von Hindenburg to appoint him chancellor. Free elec
tions vanished and the Reichstag lost all power, bjt the German people entranced by the self-glorification
of Nazi svmbolism andlriKialistic splendor mutely joined the Fuehrer's march towards a "glori
fied German empire " Nation-wide persecution of Jews began; Communists were hunted down and ex
terminated bv the Gestapo. -Nazificati jn worked on the home, the school, the business world, and fail
inrto swing the church into line too, gradually exiled it. Withdraw.ng from the League of Nations,
hitler '-nureVd'' his own party ranks, and his dream of a. completely rationalized and goose-stepping
German nation began t- come true. Labor codes were established wagesc ales cfe x' u"j7 ?b,0';
With the nation healing roicmaiij, """"" k-- ...
Nazi-dominated Saar plebiscite brought the coal-rich territory back into the Rech.
Lhed.
Nazis Had Victory in Grasp
After 1940 Race to Channel
capitulated after four
city, a crack German armored
column under Gen. Erwin Rom
mel dispersed the Belgian division
and emerged from the forest on
May 13. Then Rommel began an
apparently insane maneuver. He
turned westward and raced along
behind the allied lines up to the
vallpy of the Somme, reaching the
English Channel near Abbeville.
His supply line was stretched
a precarious IdO miles, but the
(Br Unittd Press) i ceived little fight. The Nether-
Bv Mav 1940 the collapse of lands armies, separated and sur-
Norway had set the stage for an : rounaea,
all-out German offensive against days.
western Europe. The blitzkrieg. I in Belgium, a large body of
powerfully armed and smartly j British and French troops advanc-
rrnnAi-iliul HiH It aaain. I nri enmp nO miles north of the
Motorized German spearheads I border in an attempt to cut off speed of the nazi follow-up assur
struckwiftlv into Holland on the; German detachments pouringled the success of Rommel's tac-
trol of the country's vaunted wa- io me nonra-ra, . ,'"3
Antwerp. The French were rely
: ing on a Belgian division in the
Ardennes forest near the Luxem
bourg border to cover their right
' flank.
It was this right flank that
ter defenses within a few hours.
Fifth columnists and paratroop
ers took over communications
, centers and key bridges much as
they had done in Poland and
Norway.
Converging grotina columns
closed rapidly on the Hague. Rot- j proved the allies' undoing
terdom and Amsterdam. They re-1 Striking with speed and auda-
and blocks of infantry streamed
swiftly through the gap to build
up the German salient. By May
23, the Maginot line was effective
ly flankpd and the allied forces to
the north cut off and surrounded.
'Miracle' at Dunkirk
The main French armies start
ed a belated rescue drive from the
south, but on May 28, King Leo-
1 L. - u -! v"VT1 ( Hitler. Von Rlbbentrop, ChamoerUin a Munich,
i Hltlr. MuaaUnl larm Rome-Berlin Axis. 1938. ', .-,,:M If -, B yV itvA
of those left after the Belgian
surrender had been taken back
to England. ..
It was then the nazls did In
the words of Neville Chamberlain
"miss the bus." England lay
ripe for invasion -across a 21-mile
strait. The British army, compel
led to leave its heavy equipment
on the continent, was tired and
disorganized.
The British braced for assault.
Home guards with bayonets on
poles drilled to aid the army.
Prime Minister Churchill squared
his shoulders before a micro
phone and promised the world
that the British would "light on
the beaches, on the landing
grounds, in the fields, in the
streets arid on the hills."
He vowed; "We shall never
surrender!" .
In that dark hour the American
government, eschewing legalities,
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Hitler (arrow) rolls mto Vienna, 1938.
Hess, Hitler, Goering and others In the beer hall.
BEGINNINGS OF CONQUEST (1936-39): The Nazi march toward European domination began in
1938- when German troops, breaking the Locarno Pact, occupied the Rhineland. Next came forma
tion of the Rome-Berlin Axis, when Hitler joined with Mussolini in a partnership dedicated to war
nd aggression. In 1937, all Nazi male youths were ordered to work or military service, and with
the entire German nation now behind him either by choice or domination. Hitler sent an ultimatum
to Austria. The bloodless occupation followed in 1938. "
Concentrating 200,000 troops on the Czech frontier, the Nazis refused all offers of concessions of
tho helpless nation. Chamberlain became the symbol of democratic appeasement when he signed the
Munich pact, giving Hitler 11,000 square miles of Czech territory with a population of 3,500 nnn T
this same city where the Nazi, "beer haU gang" met each year to celebrate founding of the' party
Hitler narrowly escaped death In 1939, when a bomb wrecked the shrine just after he left.
The occupation of Austria and Czechoslovakia came just six months after Hitler told the world.
Thero is no nation in the world which longs more for peace than Germany."
Poles weep aa HiUer and bliUers invade in 1939. "'Her consoles war widow.
Hitler rescues the ex-Duce ut 1943.
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We'll Do It Again"-
to Japan, just as surely as we did it to
; Germany!
We'll stick together to the grim end, and
pity the misguided Sons of Heaven who
dare stand against hs!
For we are one united for the one pur-
pose of ending war and restoring peace
to earth. '
We have the spirit, the weapons, the
will to win! '
Let's do it again NOW !
Von Rlbbentrop, Kurusu and Hitler in 1940.
VV70RLD WAR II (1939-44): After signing a non-aggression pact with Russia in 1939, Hitler's troops
invaded Poland without declaration of war. England and Franco declared war on Germany, and
Hitler answered them in 1940 with invasions of Denmark. Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Lux
embourg and France. Significant were the December, 1940, meetings of Hitler and Japan's Kurusu,
then ambassador to Berlin, for a year later the attack on Pearl Harbor came as Kurusu was peace'
talking in Washington.
Hitler erred gravely in 1941 when, after swallowing the Balk.ins, he invaded vast Russia. Early suc
cesses were followed by retreats here, and in North Africa after Germany declared war on the U, S.
Italy's capitulation set off a crumbling of the wholo Axis structure and Hitler's dramatic rescue of
Mussolini did little to reassure wavering satellite nations. ,
No amount of propaganda could hide from the German people the steady retreat of their troops
from Russia, and faced with increasing Allied military gains and blockbusting bombings, the Fuehr-'
er's followers could draw small comfort from his November 9 statement, "If the German people de
spair, they wL'V deserve no better than they get I will not be sorry for them if God lets them down."
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Poles weep as Hitler and Blitzers invade in 1939. Hitler directs war with Russia.
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Hitler rescues the ex-Duce in 1943.
1941 army revolts aucrur civil uprisings as in 1918.
WORLD WAR II (1939-44): After signing a non-iigrcssiori p;ici with Russia in 1939. Hitler's troops
Invaded Poland England and France declared war on Germany, anrl lluler answered them in 104')
with invasions of Denmark. Norway, the Low Countries and France - Significant were the 1940 meet
ings of Hitler and Japan's Kurusu. for a year later the Pearl Harbor attack came.
Hitler erred gravely in IB4I when, after swallowing the Balkans, he invaded vast Russia, Early
successes were followed by increasing retreats here ?nd in North Africa alter U S. entered the
war By the end of 1943 Germany had also lost Sicily and pari ol Italy
Allied invasion ot France in June ol 1944 lor ed a thrce-liont war on Goimany, already re
treating in Italy and Russia Itevolt of his army clique and r-ttcmptcd assassination brought on a
"purge" ol Nazi officers, as the Fuehrer dodged blame lor military disasters
Faced witn humiliating army retreats and continual air bombardment. Hitler crouched in his
ever-shnnkint "Fortress" and desperately told his people thM "Victory will one day compensate
each and every one of us for the sorrows sufleicd and the sacrifices made."
pold suddenly surrendered the en
tire Belgian army. The remaining
allied divisions in the trap were ;
facing surrender or annihilation. 1
Then help arrived from an un-1
looked for quarter.
Steaming miraculously to the
rescue at that critical moment
came a strange procession a j
vast nondescript relief fleet of i
vessels hastily ntruiled from
England's coastal towns and vil
lages. It included ancient trans
ports, pleasure steamers, destroy.
ers, fishing craft, tughonts and
dainty racing vessels. Standing in
perilously close to shore, they be
gan the seemingly impossible
task of removing the trapped
troops from Dunkirk's crowded
beaches.
For our days and nights under
a hellish rain of bombs and shrap
nel, the motley fleet shuttled
back a t). forth across the chan
nel. Srures of vessels were sunk
but t'.ie rest came back for more.
When tho ordeal finally ended,
sr.me 300,000 Jlritish and Krench
, soldiers roughly three-fourths
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