So said Adolf Hitler on May 17, 1933. The death toll of the Second World War, including military and civilian deaths, has conservatively been estimated at perhaps 35 million souls. The party later won more, but never gained a majority, only a plurality. It is considered possible that they could win 5 percent nationwide in the Dec. 2 West German federal parliamentary elections. Germany, claiming that the Polish Corridor and the Free City of Danzig really belong to it, invades Poland.
Dates collide and merge with a dreary and dreadful sameness.
The collapse of the Berlin Wall eerily echoes the anti-Semitic destruction of Kristallnacht, Nov. 9, 1938. Lufthansa demands that United States, Britain and France relinquish flying monopolies. Hitler reveals the existence of the Versailles-forbidden German air force. Deutschland uber Alles, with a combined East and West population of 80 million, a prospective gross national product of 1.5 trillion Deutschmarks, is a frightening prospect. The master-race jingoistic rhetoric of prior Germanic states leads to the inexorable conclusion that there would be no reason to expect that the thought processes or protoplasm of the Fourth Reich would differ from that of the Third or that the world will not once again tremble before the unleashed Hun.