The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-17
Making German State of Mid-Europe Is Dream of Hitler's Great Steel Master

was nearest to Brunmg. InySeen needed to control the state. Hence he put all his resources behind Hit Ter. He and his colleagues put up three million marks for H1tlerS campaign in 1883.
 When Hitler was elected the Nazi government carried off piece Of skullduggery which reminds one of Wall Street-1929 model. A new cor poration was formed. To 1t were transferred the shares of the state in the Steel Trust. Also shares Of certain small companies of the Thyssen group were delivered. But to Thyssen and his friends were s- sued 40 per cent of the controlling shares of the new company. The state got 9 per cent. although it owned half of the Steel Trust shares and poor Otto Wolff and his friends got only per cent. Thyssen with his 40 per cent and control of the states g per cent had the Steel Trust finally in his hands.
 Hitler then set out upon the regeneration of Germany. Thyssen was made state Councillor for Vest ern Germany-a new off1ce-prac- tically economic dictator. By an- other piece of legerdemain the three great banks of Germany were brok- en up and reformed in a way to ensure Thyssen domination. Thys- sen, like Shines, has been inspired and stimulated by the anti-JewiSh and anti-Catholic drives. All Thys- sens rivals in steel and finance were Jews like Straus and Catholics like Otto Wolff. They have been in- dustrially liquidated. Thyssen, from his Castle Landesberg in the Ruhr, saw German industry and finance drop into his bag. And he meditates more ambitious designs upon his world.
 Meantime, how fares the father land? Germany seemingly leads the world in recovery, but people have less to eat and wear. Germany keeps her steel mills, munitions, plants, ship yards, heavy industries work ing 24 hours day. But the mills that make clothes and the estab- lishments that produce food do not work that much in week.
 Tn good times Germany pro- duces only about 70 per cent of her food. Now she produces less and poor crops have cut harvests. Yet, needing food, she imports billion marks less food, so that she may import a billion marks more of war materials.
 Thyssen's steel mills, munitions plants, ship yards are turning in feverish haste. Germans are taxed 10 the last drop of sweat and the government keeps 1nventing new ways to borrow money through bank credits and these vast sums pour into Thyssen's industries. Just as Stinnes grew fat with wealth as Germany fell apart in poverty under the imitation, now Thyssen waxes fat as the Nazi state di- verts the energies of the people into the ways of reviving militar- ism.
 Meantime Thyssen is the chief protagonist of the plan to create again an integrated state in the middle of Europe which will con- prise Austria, Hungary, parts of the Balkans and the Ukraine, and whose shadow next falls across Czechoslovakia.
 He has been Hitler's chief in- dustrial advisor. But now eco- homie forces are obscured, the violent Goering has become chief of the economic state. Where Thyssen has come out in the moves of the last six months is not so clear. Events move swift ly. The state grows so vast, so powerful, so omniverous that it may devour Thyssen as it devours all else, but in any case the great steel master and the Ruhr magnates are working against economic law. Will it beat them down? It is a race between Hitler, Thyssen, the industrial barons and the very law of na- ture itself. We may not have to wait long until the end of this race