The Nazis

The Merger of Austria With Germany (Ken Magazine, 1938)

Here is an article about Austria’s Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg (1897 – 1977) and how the merger of Austria and Nazi Germany came about in 1838:

Behind the scenes that hard day at Berchtesgaden, revealing what Hitler said to Kurt Schuschnigg and what the Austrian public never knew about the German plot to stage in Vienna a counterpart of the Reichstag fire, as a pretext for invasion. Schuschnigg spoiled that pretext, only to furnish another one himself. Uncovering the plot in the hope of averting invasion he merely brought it on.

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Gregor Strasser: the Nazi Rebel (Literary Digest, 1933)

Attached is a profile of Hitler’s director of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers’ Party), and their political differences that led to his resignation.

Hitler was hard hit when Gregor Strasserstyle=border:none
(1892 – 1934), one of his ablest and oldest supporters, broke away from him. It happened in one of the fights between rival factions in the Hitlerite movement which followed losses sustained in the November Reichstag elections.

Profound gratitude is due Strasser from Hitler because when Hitler was released from jail, there was at least a nucleus of his party left, so that its reconstruction did not have to begin in a void. Gratitude was expressed on Hitler’s part for he made Strasser chief of his propaganda work.

He was murdered in his prison cell during the Night of Long Knives (June 30, 1934).

Read about the German POWs who were schooled in virtues of democracy.

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The Murder of SA Stormtrooper Herbert Hentsch (Literary Digest, 1933)

The Nazis were very adept at eating their young; here is but one of many stories from assorted German and Austrian newspapers that illustrated that point:

The Hitlerites, it alleges, have their own Army, police, and courts functioning independently of the constituted authorities, even defying those authorities, and passing death sentences by secret tribunals.

In Dresden dwelt a ‘shock-troop division’ man named Herbert Hentsch whose body was found not so long ago.

Various circumstances suggest that comrades of the dead young man within the Nazi ranks put him out of the way…


CLICK HERE to read about the beautiful Blonde Battalions who spied for the Nazis…

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Dr. Walter Gross and the Office of Racial Policy (Collier’s Magazine, 1944)

Although he may not be very well known outside Germany, few men rank higher in the Nazi regime than Doctor Walter Gross (1904 – 1945). As head of the Office of Racial Policy, he is Adolf Hitler’s expert on breeding, riding herd on the biological urge, and even deciding what children may be brought into the world.


Written by George Creel (1876 – 1953), this single page article outlines how this quack doctor was responsible for the enslavement of women sex slaves who were pressed into submission from all the conquered nations of Europe.


Gross killed himself at the end of the war.


Click here to read about the origins of Fascist thought…

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Atrocity Denials (Literary Digest, 1933)

Shortly after Hitler had assumed power came the eyewitness accounts concerning all the assorted government sanctioned murders, public beatings, and confiscations that characterized the Third Reich.


This article appeared on the newsstands just three months after Hitler’s coronation and is offers numerous repudiations, abnegation and disavowals all composed by the polished pros of the regime; such as Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, Reichsbank Chairman Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, newspaper editor Fritz Klein of the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, and the editor from the Nazi organ in Munich, the Voelkischer Beobachter, who opined

We hereby nail this shameless lie. The accusations remain unexampled in the history of any cultured nation.


Click here to read about the contempt that the Nazis had for Modern Art.


Click here to read about the similarities and differences between communism and fascism.

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The Nazi Hollywood (Ken Magazine, 1938)

Written by a fellow who in later years would write a good deal about propaganda films, this article is amusing for the way it reported the total lack of humor and curiosity that Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels (1897 – 1945) brought to the subject of film production; how they totally killed the existing German film industry and made film criticism illegal.


Read an article about the banning of all foreign artists in Hitler’s Germany…

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Jokes in Germany (Coronet Magazine, 1939)

Many of the jokes that are at present circulating the land of Hitleria cannot be told quite openly. They are whispered among friends. The traffic is great and much whispering going on. Many people want to laugh. It seems a necessary release…


– so observed one journalist fresh from his whirlwind journey through Hitler’s Germany. He could not help but notice how painfully neurotic the Reich leadership was of being the object of Teutonic derision. This article is about the underground society of whispered jokes that the Nazis created; the journalist was good enough to write-up a few so that the free-world could take place in the chuckle-fest (some were lost in translation).

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When the U.S. Home Front Found Out About Nazi Atrocities (Yank Magazine, 1945)

The editors of YANK reported that the week of VE Day the

…first-run movie houses showed films of a kind seldom if ever seen by American audiences. The films, made for the most part by the U.S. Army signal corps, showed piles of human bones, mass graves and beaten, starving men who looked more like corpses than human beings…Homefronters sat in shocked silence, broken now and then in by low gasps.

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Berlin’s Man In Brussels (Collier’s Magazine, 1943)

Léon Degrelle (1906 – 1994) was a Belgian con-man and Nazi collaborator:

Handsome, plausible and glib, politics eventually appealed to him as a field for his talents, but repeated bids for office resulted in defeat. Nothing seemed more certain than that the ‘man with the electric voice’ would remain a local windbag, but in 1935, Adolf Hitler began the development of fifth columns in other countries, and Léon Degrelle was his choice in Belgium.

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