The Nazis – Page 3 – Old Magazine Articles

A Socialist Remedy for Nazi-Germany’s Labor Questions
(Literary Digest, 1935)

A Socialist Workers’ Government has achieved a workers revolution in Germany without resorting to, though in some respects it approximates, Communism. Adolf Hitler has done it by wiping out all class privileges and class distinction, but the economics foundation of property rights and private capital has been left almost intact – for the present time.

The Third Reich, under Hitler, has wiped out corporate trade-unionism by forcing all workers to join one great government union, the National Socialist Union of Employers and Workers…

Eventually, unions were outlawed under Hitler.

Click here to read about the Nazi assault on the German Protestant churches in 1935.

Read an Article About the Socialist Aspects of Hitler’s Book, Mein Kampf.

Hitler’s economist admitted the German economy was socialist – more about that can be read here …

The Bund-Klan Connection
(PM Tabloid, 1943)

Edward James Smythe, a whisky-guzzling old reprobate whose great sorrow is that Hitler is too merciful toward the Jews, has decided to tell all – if anybody will listen. Smythe called PM‘s city desk the other day and, after establishing his identity as the well-known American-bred tinhorn Fascist, now under indictment with 27 others on sedition charges, said:

‘Remember that joint meeting of the Klan and the Bund at Camp Nordland over in Jersey? Well I organized that…’

New Jersey Law Nabs Top Bundists
(PM Tabloid, 1940)

In 1937 the elders of New Jersey passed a law that was tailor-made for the thugs of Camp Nordland. Knowing well who the Bundists were, the law clearly condemned

‘the unlawful assembly of three or more persons’ and ‘and the uttering of speeches, the sale of literature, display of emblems and uniforms which counseled… hatred, violence or hostility against groups of persons… by reason of race, color, religion or manner of worship.’

In 1940 the law netted a harvest of the three highest Bund leaders.

American Fascists Exposed
(Coronet Magazine, 1944)

This is a wonderful read. Writing under the name John Ray Carlson, the journalist Arthur Derounian (1909 – 1991) went under cover into the seedy world of American fascist organizations and discovered that they all spoke with each other. Having impressed the German Bundists, he moved quickly up the ranks of American fascism and was soon given the task of uniting every antisemitic, anti-democratic, pro-fascist clique in the country. Here is a list of some of the groups he was in contact with during his four years in the underground: America First, the American Vigilant Intelligence Federation, American Nationalist Party, Chicago Patriot’s Bureau, New England Christian Front, National Workers League, Detroit Mothers, American Mothers, Yankee Freeman and Mothers of the United States of America. He finally found himself in the company of Lawrence Dennis, a creepy book-worm who was known in those low circles as the dean of American fascism.

Adolf Hitler and the German-Americans
(Coronet Magazine, 1941)

This is a fascinating article not simply for what you’ll learn about Hitler, but for what you’ll additionally learn about the manner in which many Germans tended to view that queerest of hybrids, the German-Americans.

This article was written by Rene Kraus, who had been a German diplomat during the Wiemar Republic and a refugee under Hitler.

Click here to read about the German-Americans who called themselves Nazis.

Click here and you will learn that Kaiser Wilhelm was also bugged by German-Americans.

Nazi Art Plunder
(Click Magazine, 1943)

The attached article tells the story of an organization that was formed by the German Foreign Office in order to steal the treasures of the occupied European nations. It was called the Nazi Art Corps and it was divided into four battalions of SS men; they stole manuscripts, sculpture, paintings, jewels etc, etc, etc. They answered to the Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs, Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893 – 1946).

Click here to read about the inmate rebellions that took place at Auschwitz, Sobibor and Triblinka.

The Fifth Column In America
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

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.

Their Freaky Religion
(Literary Digest, 1938)

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.

Catholics and Nazis
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1937)

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…

Ludendorff v. Hitler
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1937 )

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.

Hitler: Ten Years Before his Rise
(Literary Digest, 1923)

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’s Economist
(Literary Digest, 1937)

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 On The Brink Of Power
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1932)

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.

From the Beer Hall Putsch and Beyond
(Literary Digest, 1933)

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.

A Chronological List of the Earliest Hitler Sightings
(Pageant, 1960)

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

Hitler Gets a Bad Review
(Atlantic Monthly, 1933)

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 another review of Mein Kampf.

Although Hitler didn’t mention it his book, German-Americans drove him crazy.

Argentina: Silent Nazi Ally
(Collier’s Magazine, 1944)

Just back from South America, COLLIER;S correspondent reports on the totalitarian government in Argentina, it’s link to Hitlerism, and what to do to guard our future security.

The Argentine government has harbored spies and saboteurs. Colonel Frederic Wolf, the Himmler of the German Embassy and the latest director of the real Nazi spy ring, remained in Buenos Aires until quite recently. Our military forces have plenty of evidence that Allied ships have been sunk, and American lives have been destroyed as a result of information broadcast from Argentina to U-boat commanders.

Click here to read about the headache that was Evita Peron.