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ee a tee oe al a ‘YNESDAY, MAY 2, 1945. martyr of him by keeping him inlit more and more difficult to cop ‘ 7 ‘ ‘ JBER FAMILY [marty or taking specia) measures, with them. Thus the movemzr ° at ; . . : For some time Hitler appeared to|gathered force as the final abow E go inte retirement. He was at|down was approaching. work on “Mein Kampf,” begun in Powerful Elements Allied (prison, but at the same time con~ ; tinued quietly at the tasl of re-{ The same methods that Hi: | building his shattered group andjsubsequently used against oth: . developing the foundations for his nations—intimidation, violent ar mass movement. abusive propaganda, coercion an | Within the next seven years he|terror—were applied by the Nazi lobtained a huge following, which |to their potitical opponents in Gi athe came to number 3,000,000. It was{many. With increased support fr¢ @ibuilt along military lines, with|the army and industrialists, ej army corps, regiments and com- {gigantic propaganda machine W t!panies. The men wore uniforms set up, which, backea by millfo jand were subject to strict military |of throats, blared wild accusatio ,) discipline. This army consisted of in an unending stream against t ® \ the Storm Troops, who wore brown Government and leaders of otk ‘di ghirts, and the Black Guards, rep-|parties. . 8 et resenting more carefully picked! Men like Gustav Stresemann, formations, weating black shirts. |zay nothing of Socialists and Dex These troops acted as the Hitler|crats were denounced as trait police at public meetings andjand held up to public ignomi . $8 demonstrations, attacked Jews injTheir livca were in constant de i the streets of Munich, broke up|ger. An atmosphere of disorder w. meetings of the opposition, staged |created with the intent of feedir : popular demand for a “stro: hand.” All this was staged ¥ tremendous dramatic effect by, able propaganda organization, Wiistreet brawls with Communists and republicans, beat up leaders ‘¥lof other parties and, in general, leonducted a reign of terror with \which the authorities found it in-jrected by Dr. Joseph Goebbels. ig} | creasingly difficult to cope, in pro-| In the meantime, through Cc "| portion as the political aspect of/tain Roehm, Hitler atrengthe ‘\the Nazi movement gathered |nis ties with the Re‘chswehr, wi strength. came to realize more and more | The nation was thrown into alhe could not be resisted without state of veritable civil war. The|fending those millions of the py Socialists and Democrats took|lation upon whom the Refchsv counter-measurcs by forming their|{teelf, seeking the rearmamen' semi-military Reichsbanner, while|Germany, had to depend. Wi! the Communists, fighting the So-}/positive genius for poutical strat cialists and the republicans. organ-|of the kind necessary for his. jzed their Red-Front Fighters|umph, Hitler cemesited the str ture of his movement by amr’ mating the support of the powerful elements, the. army jndustrzlists, with the enthus and blind approval 6+ his thar 4 | four-year war, Poverty and misery Moree ee SN 13 | were abroad in the land. Tt scenes Reich Army Generals Become His Captit q | aa if many decades would have to ca Eid pase before tne nation coud ulll His Political Power Increased After. IS new order. But Hitler persevered. ‘ His father Y lhew power and greatness to come. The extremism of his utterances ‘ . 'and promises madc liltle impres- 'a-# Fe : i!) sion at first. The poor lance cor-}League. The authorities in Bavaria, * {por al was trested as a@ circus per- Thuringia and other German States ‘farmer. Peoplh tauugheg at h:m and epenly sided with the Hitlerites i‘nis dreams. Germany lay crushed {and facilitated their work. Soon the “t and prostrate after her defeat in a authorities in Prussia began to find a re © mend CEE eas ratery . Already in thore days, five years)radically curtailed, . taxes | Strategy Formula Simple before his advent to power, thelraised to a degree never k His strategy was based on 8 sim-| army generals had beceme his pris-\before, and popular disconten} ple principle: to obtain the support |oners. Those who, like General|tinued to mount in ever. of powerful and infinential ele-|yon Schleicher, later attempted to|threatening degree. . eis ‘ments in the army, industry and | tinance and to buttress that with support aniong the nasses, He ad- dressed bimse)! first to the middle classes, rvjned by inflation, and “Bi managed fo obtain some sesistance ‘|from elements among the workers disappointed in the revolution. To the middle classca he prom- ised reief from what he called the tyranny of big business, partictu- lariy the department stores, with which small tradesmen found it There was talk of Hitler's ¥ id for it with their lives or with|taken into the Governmen plivion. persistently refused, peayin But great as,were his successes|Would not rule unless hé wa Bieat to command all authority.: J same time, however, he. de that he would attain that pov “legal” means only, that he t intention of carrying out a état. mF In 1931 Hitler was recels President von Hindenburg f in the years after the Munich pittsch, it was not until 1930 that Hitler emerged definitely as a8 mighty politica] power in Germany. As late as 1928, in the Reichstag elections of thal year, Hitler was able OO eet only twelve reate But in the elections held in the fall ile . "hic eel first time. Unt!) that mome | difficull to comprle. He promised ong captured 107 6,000,000 votes aged President had steadfas them that when in power he would; “14 was one of the greatest upsets {used to mee} the man wh dissolve {he department stores and "in the turbulent history of. the regarded as an “u e, abolish ail interest, To the work! struggling German Republic. By took good advantage of that érs he promised dissolution of the this time Hitler had become the view. He appeared to have »: vue ke Neither of these promises | eritabie idol not only of the active President's confidence by 5) . RO Fe . i sate enthusiastically of the army a i Added to hia economic program. Nezi party members bu oe the pressing his profound inte acsigned, to appeal to ithe ruined | in ; its welfare, whila pledging e-class elements, be put for- . “ _jto the aged executive. T ward his slogans of extreme na- mnie (factor nl Bee a was the man” was moved and subse Gees none baste union ot economic cfisia that broke over the tried to bring about some # on the basis of aclf-| : unity between er an many. Mt was nat until 1928 that| Tong &o unemployed added to the Deen waging 2 vitriolic can mu orward wi or , 3 ey i far thr formore wha hae henoma/ilions of impovcrished middle-| Hitler “ert Hinden! steed the hrndveds Off rma ec tatia Te mo s to an independent poiicy, { - * AD ae