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« Hitler Fought Way to Power i sceattsheeneementiitie’ aten ones. amet - NS ARMS Rite 8 C | THE NEW YORK Unique in Modern History Bent Most of Europe to His Will by Manipu- lating Chaos That Was Aftermath of the First World War | _ Adolf Hitler, one-time Austrian, while all of Centra Europe trem-| §i* wegabond who rose J be fe aict bled before what appeared to be the | § r of German igmenter : * , hail irresistible advance of the goose- the Reich’ and the Pe ngal ot Bu stepping Nazi hordes of his adopted * : country. ini, nd Product of the ee World For more than six vears acter his puances, born cf the titanic con) 2cvent to power in January, 1023, fet, that carried Lenin, a bookish | Were, Semed lenge Hitler’s| *) gl professional revolutionist, to the t ct to vict ie i Se ne ere oe Mussolini in the Foland, backed by the Anglo-/ 'rench alliance. ve Rome Of ne Alera domination “ Shortly af.er his dismemberment mm the former mighty Germany of the and subjugation of Czechoslovakia Hohensoliern Ma Hitler was reported to have said, Like Lenin and Mussotini, Hitler My nm is ont h His blow came out of the blood and chaos|SFainst Poland and chances Of 1914-18, but of the three he was France ano England jess than _ the strangest phenomenon. Lenin, x r th - he bad det, as ad ‘ibe while not known to the generalj 07s that he Bad delcrminge ce) public, had for many years before erately to stake all he had achieved the Russian Revolution occupied al #74 ali that be still yearned for— ” . prominent place as leader and tneo- | @0™ination of Europe—upon one Ris mother Petician of the Bolshevist party.(C27¢. War, sensing. perhaps, that, Mussolint was a videly known So- “me Was against hirn, that he pedi : livt b cialist editor, orator anc politician unleashed forces of hatred and op-j{® earn & precariois hving by : position fhroughout the world that|Painting posture postcards for ., before mal.ing his bid for power. . , - . 1 PES J " Stider was nothing, and from noth- might eventually destroy him. : Oeetet cork np doing min OK car | ee ing he became everything to most! Series of Broken Proiises Neverlieless, he considered him- Germans. : - {sel e H tion. Mussoiini thundered of the Toler” abroad would mmaxe him{him recognition. He spent his Jel- coming world victory of fascism. ioe circumspect and reluctant to|sure hours dey-dreaming = and’ am Hitler actually challenged the puraue the program of conquest he|brooding over his frustration. Heid earth to combat by unleashing ®0°lhag outlined for himself in “Mein|himself admitted ia his autobiog-|f other war of nations. Emerging|s:ampe" and in his speeches had|Faphy that up to his twenty-fifth from the field in 1918 83 &0/ sb WGoned that hope when, in vio-|Year he was what is known as al § obscure lance corporal, he Jed Ger-liation of his promise to respect the{s00d-for-nothing, a spoiled tdler. many twenty-one years Jeter 83) ntesrity of Czechoslovakia after}Movei by a sensitive ego, ® rest- supreme Fuehrer and War Lord. | Munich; le marched on Prague and|Jess spirit and @ quick mind, he Subdued Many Nations reduced that nation to a German yearned Passionately enition ra Before the climax of a career,Projectorate. mpression, to gain recognition, 0; ag unparalleled in history. he had aub-| It wax not the first promise he how. eversihing Mio attract atten: ‘ dued nine nations. defied success-jhad broken. His whole course at tion, to maste ene world fully and humiliated the greatest home and abroad had been marked , r . powers of Europe. snd created a by broken promises and he did not) Polltice His Ruling Passion gocial and economic system found-|hesitate to massacre many of his : : . ed upon the complete subjection} own closest adherent, as he did in tis greatest passion was for po: of scores of millions to his will) the purge of June, 1834, when he a ¥, y ; > di ler would become transformed as in all basic features of social, po-|personally directed the killing Of)... as conversation turned on Utieal, economic and cultural life.|Capt. Ernst Roehm and a group matters political, His tongue would Bixty-fivemillion Germans yielded | of Jeading Nazis who had ventured eee e ie torrent of W ae would to the blandishments and niagnet-'to interfere in his plans for acioser| 1 ceom his Mpa. In those dsys jem of this slender man of rnedium| association of the Reichswehr with |) Core ihe Firat Pe ockd War Hiller height, with Httle black mustache! the regime and insisted upon ful- never formed friendships, male or . and shock of dark hair, whose fer-/fillment of the original Nazi party female He never cpmmunicate 4 vor and demagogy swept every- promines in the economic field. with his family, who thought him ing before him with outstretched{ The world-wide condemnation of} 4.34 Jeered at by acquaintances 3 ag the savior and regenerator his methods was fed by the syetem he wept k ' e Fatherland. of terroriam he had established a . . . of iMstria. ott 7,900,000 inhah-!home and in the countrics he had|, 77° Oe oun that cove ae jtanis, succumbed helpicssly to his| conquered, the jailing of scores of eretion of the Austro-Hungarian invasion. More than 2,000.000 Ger- thousands in prisons and concen- Empire, which he foresaw, and evi- mens in the Sudeten country were|tration camps, the secret murder Sannen ‘of which had become ap- added to his domain when helof opponents and those auspected|orent to many long before the threatened to invade Czechoslo-[of opposition, the ruthless destruc-() 07 Gong; dering Riegel’ a. Ger- vakia, and 10,000.0((' Czechs miid|tion of the Jews and the persccn- en he felt. superior to. those Slovaks were tied to his chartotition of the Catholic and Protestant around him. For the Slave of the wheel, their nation stripped of ats|Churches in his drive for nazifi- empire he felt contempt. 3 the defenses, their State destroyed,|cation of the nation. {Jews he felt hatred r the be} - ry awwertpes he Bajlieve