Word: herre
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legislatures ; then resign. After that would begin widespread civil disobedience which might cut off Britain's supply of Indian raw materials. This week, Congress orders went out to the nine strong governments to set machinery moving which might do as much to dislocate Britain's Empire as Herr Hitler's war machine...
...Herr Hitler and National Socialism are the products of the defeat of a great nation in war and its reaction against the confusion and distress which followed that defeat. National Socialism itself is a revolution and a conception of national philosophy. Contrary to democracy, which implies the subordination of the State to the service of its citizens, Naziism prescribes the subordination of its citizens to the service of the State, an all embracing moloch, and to the individual who rules that State...
...would be idle to deny the great achievements of the man who restored to the German nation its self-respect and its disciplined orderliness. The tyrannical methods which were employed within Germany itself to obtain this result were detestable, but were Germany's own concern. Many of Herr Hitler's social reforms, in spite of their complete disregard of personal liberty of thought, word or deed, were on highly advanced democratic lines. The 'Strength through Joy' movement, the care for the physical fitness of the nation, and, above all, the organisation of the Labor Camps...
...unity of Great Germany in itself an ignoble ideal. ... It was not the incorporation of Austria and the Sudeten Germans in the Reich which so much shocked public opinion in the world as the unscrupulous and hateful methods which Herr Hitler employed to precipitate an incorporation which would probably have peacefully come in due course of its own volition and in accordance with the established principle of self-determination...
...even those methods might have been endorsed in a world which had experienced 1914-18 and which sought peace as an end in itself, if Herr Hitler had been willing to accord to others the rights which he claimed for Germany. Revolutions are like avalanches, which once set in motion cannot stop until they crash to destruction at the appointed end of their career. History alone will determine whether Herr Hitler could have diverted Naziism into normal channels, whether he was the victim of the movement which he had initiated, or whether it was his own megalomania which drove...