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...extraordinary war began last week this way: On Monday night the Nazi Party headquarters in Berlin announced that Rudolf Walther Richard Hess was missing on a plane flight. Against Adolf Hitler's orders -for Hess was suffering from a "progressive disease"-Hess had boarded a plane in Augsburg, Bavaria on Saturday. Since then he was presumed to have disappeared and died. He had left behind a letter which "showed clearly traces of mental disorder which led to fears that Party Comrade Hess was a victim of hallucinations." Hess's adjutants, it was also reported from Germany, had been...
...more lavish entertainments now, no more evenings amusing everyone by mimicking the fat Göring and the thin Goebbels, no more long, lazy conversations about art. And no friendly picnics in Bavaria. His society now must be his soldiers, who he says are "quick as greyhounds, tough as leather, and hard as Krupp steel...
...mill, a canal over ten miles long, houses for 150,000 workmen. Then, like a geyser, the Göring Works shot up into a vertical trust, overflowed in every direction: into coal fields in Upper Silesia, gravel pits, quarries, lignite mines east of the Elbe, lime deposits in Bavaria, refractory materials in Upper Palatinate. Aiming at power-in-general rather than any organic industrial shape, the Göring trust next spread into oil fields, commercia houses, shipping companies. In 1938 the capital jumped to $160,000,000. The next year Fritz Thyssen abdicated. Under a decree which permits...
...autumn of 1924, in Landsberg Fortress in Bavaria, Adolf Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf: I, however, resolved now to become a politician...
...edition of Who's Who (British) listed, among 40,000 "men and women most in the public eye today," Adolf Hitler. Censors permitting, Britons could still reach him by telephone at No. 11 6191; by mail at Wilhelmstrasse 77, Berlin W. 8., or at Ober-Salzberg, Berchtesgaden, Bavaria...