The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-05
{UsMC photo from NEA)

I worked overtlmes cupldlty. By promising the small dealer, the un- successful doctor that JewiSh.eon- trolled department stores and Jew. lSh doctors would disappear under NaSl rule, they won the allegiance of the mediocre dealer or rector whether his lack of success had anything to do with Jewish eompetl. ton or not,
 TURING his rapid rise from paid D informer In 1919 to leader of c party that was winning seats in Parliamentary elections only four years later, Hitler had fully realized the astonishing power that words have over men, With this reali2a- ton came his craving for publicity flor propagNnda, He seized greed. ily on tho studies of psychologists submitted to him in Landsberg; on them he based hiS mammoth cam. palgnS to win control first of Ger many, then of tho world,
 The psychologists talked much about the dissatisfied clements, Hit Ter knew them well, Tie himself had been tortured with dissatisfaction in his days of poverty. But ho knew that conditions other than poverty alone bred unhappy restleSsness, Ills propagNnada must reach every dissatisfied person In Germany and magnify his illustration, whatever the cause. Women seemed moro brittle, more imaginative than men, Openly the NaEis excluded thom from politics, covertly they ella. horated schemes with which to OK. plolt women. The NaEls had won the lower middlo.olasS women ot Bavaria by pledging to respect tho "sanetlty of family and religious Ilfe." (Their men had suceumbed to promises of spells from the future appropriation of Jews,) Tn their thorough quest Of dissatisfaction, they sought out young women afs lists, not quite good enough to sue" ceed alone, but glad to listen to men who told them of future wealth when the Nazis seized power, They went after Idle rich women, har. messed them to their evil.Smelling cart of islander and intrigue, and found them doeile and useful,
 WHILE some NaZs traded on w sentimentality, others deliber- ately turned men and women guilty of sex irregularities Into agents for the NaZi cause The fact that many such held high posts in Hitler's Party, Captain Roehm for example, made the Na2is popular with ab. normal clements in other countries,
 Hitler was fully aware that the captain was e notorious offender, have seen photostatS of letters addressed to Hitler in 1923 warn. ing him that cooperation with Roehm and his clique endangered the national cause. Sworn state- ments attached to the photostatS said that Hitler had shrugged of the warning as "old stuff"
 By 1884, however, Hitler realized that Captain Roehm had secured Q dangerous hold on the storm Troops and on many members of the Party. He knew himself strong enough to come to terms with the Reichswehr leaders on his own. So he suddenly remembered Roehm's s misconduct. On June 30 of that same year, Hitler personally arrest ed the man who had befriended him when he was penniless, to whom he owned much of his career, had him thrown into jail and executed, DEING convinced that he himself D had strong occult powers, Hitler directed the activities of astrologers and fortune tellers as NaZi propo- ganda tools. Soon after the Putsch- ists swaggered out of Landsberg fort ress, all sort of small magazines cropped up on German newstands, purporting to reveal the message Of the stars, forecasting happiness for Germany, provided of course, that the local Nazi chieftains won what ever point they were fighting for at the moment.
 Hitler like the Kaiser, was cer- tain that his mission came from God. He made that quite clear in an interview I had with him, when he stepped forward and proclaim ed loudly, My will shall be done" " glanced quickly at Hess and Hanf- Staengel, both of whom stood near by. They gazed at Hitler raptly, as though indeed the Deity had spoken. Hitler repeated, My will shall be done" and I had no doubt that the sacrilege was deliberate.
 Then he dropped the oracular tone and explained very sensibly just why his will should be done. q have 75OO0O men behind me, all eternally sworn to me. They are blindly obedient to me-" he said. 'The Republicans are more numer- ous. But they are divided. There fore I shall be the strongest. My will shall be done."
 (TO Be Continued)
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