The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-31
By MORRIS GILBERT
NEA Service Writer

Hitlerism, Germany today is in
the throes of camp-meeting
revolution. Millions of the popu-
lation have hit the political saw
dust trail. with whooping and
hallelujahs. brown shirted arms
flung out in the Nazi salute. They
are turning Hitlerism into religion,
religion into Hitlerism.
1t is hysterical and bewildering.
With all the energy of a great and
vigorous race. they are proclaim
ing that this is the Promised Land
for Germans. and that Adolph
Hitler is their prophet and their
guide. Everywhere bands blare
out the Horst Vessel song, battle
hymn of the Nazi revolution.
Everywhere are streaming BAN
ners-red- white and black of the
old Germany Empire. fiame-red of
the National-Socialist dictator
ship. with the black hooked cross
in the center of white field.
Germany is indulging in a riot
of militarisms. Salutes He'll
Hitler! Salutes again. The heel
clicking at public meetings is so
persistent that it would be funny
if it were not so sinister.
The revolution is being achieved
with breathleSs speed. 1t didn't
begin until the end of February.
1t is almost finished now Nazis
themselves, seeking TO analyze this
bewildering business. say the revo-
luton is proceeding in waves"
The first wave is over. BY it.
Hitler seized absolute autocratic
power.
The second wave is being
finished at this writing BY it,
Hitler is making his autocracy
secure.
The third wave-just about due
is an economic or financial wave.
to yoke German commerce and
banking to the Hitler brand of
FaScism.
MEANWHILE, accompanying
1Vl the tremendous emotional
and political crisis, cruelty has
forged to the front. The Nazi tri-
umph is accompanied by repres-
sion, espionage, terrorism and per-
secution.
Thousands of people are in Jail
for political offenseS. Esti-
mates of the number vary between
10000 and $4,000. The latter figure
seems nearer the truth. since it
is learned on good authority that
there are not less than 5000 pris-
oners in Dachau. the Bavarian
concentration camp.
And Dachau is only one of
dozen such camps, the biggest two
being near Berlin, at Oranjeburg
and Sonnenburg.
But if fear tortures many Ger
mans, glory exalts many more.
There are plenty of neer- do-wells
in brown shirts holding down
good jobs because they are loyal
Nazis. and for no other reason.
The first 100000 Nazis' are be-
ing rewarded this way-the nu-
cleuse CT discontinued men who
rallied around Adolph Hitler while
he still was nothing but a small
town demagog preaching a Cos
pei without repute. The "spoils
system" in Germany is working
overtime.
But the story of Hitlerism is
not confined to the minority of
resolute hangers-on. For Hitler
ism is based on a powerful and
fundamental purpose.
THIS purpose is the hope and
Il promise of a reversal of the
verdict of the World war. 1t is
the revival of the German war
demand of 1914 for "a place in the
sun
Thus a national yearning has
become synonymous with national
self-respect. Hitler has capital
lied it and 1t is leading him to
triumph.
In asceticism and zeal, the
"Fuhrer' is pictured as a west
ern Gandhi. He is also called a
Mussolini. a Kemal-and Mo-
hammet. since he exhibits charac-
teristics of each Of these.
He has learned much from
Russian Communism about how to
handle state under dictatorship.
If politics-as has been said
is the art of getting and keep
ing power. Adolph Hitler is a con-
summate politician.
His regime seems TO be, for the
time, secure.
It's future is-unimaginable.
II the school children of Ger
many have anything to say about
it. in the future. Hitlerism will sur
vive. Hitler is seeing to that.
Crowds OF them gather in front
Of museum in Inter den Linden
every morning long before the
doors are open at o'clock.
The museum is called Die
Front" and it glorifies Ger
many's greatness in the World
war