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...long years of war, defeat, inflation, revolutionary propaganda. That was what gave Hitler his chance. But modern National Socialism is the reassertion of the .strongest tradition in German and Prussian history-the belief in the all-powerful military state, creating order and discipline at home by ruthless Gestapo methods and expanding its wealth and power by ruthless conquest abroad. We have almost lost the capacity to understand that war and conquest can be regarded and preached as heroic and legitimate ends in themselves...
From Hitler's viewpoint the most dangerous aspect of Christian resistance is the refusal of thousands of churches, both Protestant and Catholic, to pray for a Nazi victory. The Gestapo can silence all open attacks from the pulpit, can imprison all outspoken pastors and forbid bishops to write pastoral letters, but it cannot make them pray for Nazi success. That situation is unparalleled in a nation at war. Even the Schwarze Korps, organ of the Elite Guard, admits it: "The spiritual gentlemen . . . write as though they want to make our soldiers dislike the war. They do not find...
Sorrows of the Vanquished. Last week Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler summoned a conference of staff officers from Germany's armies of occupation to consider measures for dealing with unrest...
...ready to ask this time for a $1,000,000 appropriation. To earn his million, Dies produced a bigger show than ever. From Los Angeles to Chicago his agents brought Heinrich Peter Fassbender, alias Harry Smith, 23, a dark, smiling youth who claimed to have worked as a Gestapo agent for five years in Belgium, Spain and the U. S. Young Alien Fassbender, said Dies, was "sensational" in secret hearings...
Died. Senator Arturo Bocchini, 60, fat, unpublicized chief of Italy's police since 1926, "the man with a million eyes and a million ears," director of OVRA (Italy's Gestapo); in Rome. Cop Bocchini called on Mussolini at noon daily to report on public opinion; on such a call in 1935 was said to have given the answer which decided the Duce to send his troops into Ethiopia...