him. Ebdoug, if you haven't already done so, I'd heartily suggest you read In The Garden of the Beast. Very interesting book which gives a detailed look at what our ambassador to Germany was doing between 1933 and 1937. Gives plenty of insights into the country's mindset at the time. IMHO, Nazi carried then and still carries lots of meaning. A Nazi was a person who was a member of the National Socialist Party and Naziism was a collection of the beliefs of that party. The NSP was certainly central to Hitler's election to power in Germany. Perhaps he wanted to coin a word in the same manner as Mussolini did when he coined the word fascist to describe his view of government and power? Don, after I read "Garden of the Beast" when it came out, I started rereading "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich." I read a tiny bit at a time to absorb it all. In it, Shirer does not even mention Dodd. Dodd met with Roosevelt and was ignored as it wasn't politically expedient to start anything. England ignored all the signs after Hitler backed out of the agreements to limit arms. Everyone believed he wasn't increasing his army. And so we paid the price for being blind to it all. Anonymous. For years, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich was considered the bible with regards to the events surrounding the Atlantic side of the second world war. Since it was written, significant first