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From Rats to Nazis. Such, says Maier, was the condition of the German people after their defeat in World War I and the ensuing economic depression. Adolf Hitler's strategy was psychologically brilliant. He heightened the Germans' belligerence by increasing their frustration through Gestapo-enforced Verbote, then gave them objects of aggression: the Jews, the Communists, more Lebensraum. Maier observes significantly that even after the Germans had crushed the Jews and annexed Lebensraum in Austria and Czechoslovakia, their aggression continued; their fixation would not let them rest. Against such pathological aggressiveness neither appeasement nor persuasion could have...
...first the Gestapo paid no attention to publishing; it was too busy with the banks. Then the House of Roy, along with other Polish publishers, received an order to turn in all their anti-Nazi books. (They published anti-Nazi Hermann Rauschning.) Through the winter Mrs. Kister carted 70,000 volumes to the Gestapo headquarters...
...walk the streets lest they be deported to forced labor in Hitler's Reich. Many a family in Rome had devised secret hideaways behind sliding panels or revolving bookcases, or at the ends of cellar labyrinths. There the menfolk could hide, subsist on meager, hoarded rations if the Gestapo came...
Buildings and parks still bore the scars of Nazi bullets, fired into Italian crowds by Nazi soldiers. Correspondents visited a Nazi torture chamber in the Gestapo jail at No. 145 Via Tasso, talked with Angelo Yoppi, a hopeless cripple after 52 days' imprisonment there with his hands and legs tied behind his back. They peered into a cavern on Rome's outskirts, where the Nazis had piled like cordwood some 500 Italians massacred last March in reprisal for the grenade-killing of 32 German soldiers; now weeping Romans stood at the tomb's mouth, searching for relatives...
Long Thoughts. An escaped prisoner who recently traveled through part of Germany found the people tired of war, dulled by bombings and hardships, but held relentlessly to their war labors by the Gestapo, the military, the ordinary police, the Nazi Party. No vestige of a German underground exists; no German yet dares to raise voice or hand against Adolf Hitler and his men. Furthermore, the Nazi radio was not all empty clangor in German ears. Ordinary Germans might be weary of much that Naziism had brought, but they had not lost their fierce love for the Vaterland, still wanted...