Sabotage, The Secret War Against America (Harper, 1942), is as exciting as a Hitchcock movie. It is also a tragic story, for it is the factual , documented narrative of the years when this country was the happy hunting ground for our enemies, foreign and domestic.
The Fifth Column In America (PM Tabloid, 1942) Read More »
Last spring the Third Reich recognized a third official state religion: a neo-pagan cult based on Thor, Wotan, Siegfried and the old Nordic gods. It was especially favored by ultranazis and by Hitler’s black-shirted bodyguards, the Schutzstaffel or S.S. corps. The other two official German religions are Catholic and Protestant Evangelical, whose proponents today are deadlocked in combat with the up and coming neopagans.
Their Freaky Religion (Literary Digest, 1938) Read More »
Shortly after Hitler assumed power, he struck a deal with the Catholic Church in Germany allowing their schools to remain open. On May Day, 1937, he ified the agreement, saying:
We made a start with the nation’s youth. They shall not escape us. We will take them when they are 10 years-old and bring them up in the spirit of the community…
Catholics and Nazis (Pathfinder Magazine, 1937) Read More »
A column that explains Hitler’s alliance with General Erich von Ludendorff (1865 – 1937) during the famous Beer Hall Putsch (1923) and how it all went south from there.
Ludendorff v. Hitler (Pathfinder Magazine, 1937 ) Read More »
This article was written shortly after the French occupation of the Ruhr and at a time when Adolf Hitler did not have much of a following -he was something of a curiosity to the Western press:
A principal reason why Hitler’s followers have begun to doubt him, it appears, is that the ‘dreaded gathering’ of the National Socialists in Munich came and went without ‘accomplishment.’
Read about the earliest post-war sightings of Hitler: 1945-1955
Hitler: Ten Years Before his Rise (Literary Digest, 1923) Read More »
Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht (1877 – 1970) was the German economist who is credited with having stabilized that nation’s currency following the Wiemar Republic and made possible the Nazi quest of military rearmament:
Germany lacks the stuff of which tanks and guns and explosives are made . It lacks rubber, cotton, silk, copper, tin and iron ore. It lacks food for its 65,000,000 people and fodder for it cattle. So Dr. Schacht has laced German business and industry into a straight-jacket of rigid control, to conserve materials and exchange.
Although he never became a Nazi Party member, he was highly placed in the Reich. In the attached 1937 profile, you will learn that Schacht cautioned Hitler numerous times to remove the Socialist regulations that restrained the German economy from kicking in to high gear.
Click here to read an article that explains in great detail how the Nazi economic system (with it’s wage and price controls) was Marxist in origin.
Hitler’s Economist (Literary Digest, 1937) Read More »
A profile of Hitler that appeared some seven months before he grabbed the big brass ring. It is written soullessly and without judgment and is based mostly on Nazi press releases.
Hitler On The Brink Of Power (Pathfinder Magazine, 1932) Read More »
This article appeared a few weeks after Hitler came to power and it lucidly explains how Handsome Adolf had first gained notoriety in Germany.
Click here to read about Ludendorff’s association with Hitler.
From the Beer Hall Putsch and Beyond (Literary Digest, 1933) Read More »
The smoldering embers of what had once been Adolf Hitler’s carcass barely cooled by the time reports of his whereabouts began appearing on the pages of assorted newspapers and magazines throughout the world; here are a list of some of them.
The attached page is but a segment of a longer article that pertains to Hitler’s dying days and can be read here
A Chronological List of the Earliest Hitler Sightings (Pageant, 1960) Read More »
With Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, the German-speaking Alice Hamilton (1869 – 1970; sister to the classics scholar, Edith) was assigned the task of reviewing Mein Kampf
(1925) for The Atlantic Monthly. She didn’t like it.
He loves rough, red-blooded words – ‘relentless’, ‘steely’, ‘iron-hearted’, ‘brutal’; his favorite phrase is ‘ruthless brutality’. His confidence in himself is unbounded.
The royalties generated by the sales of Mein Kampf made Adolf Hitler a very rich man. To read about this wealth and Hitler’s financial adviser, click here.
Read another review of Mein Kampf.
Although Hitler didn’t mention it his book, German-Americans drove him crazy.
Hitler Gets a Bad Review (Atlantic Monthly, 1933) Read More »
