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...Years; 3) The New Order Comes to Gorcum, a vivid account of the coming of the Nazis; 4) In the Steps of the Sun, eleven true stories illustrating the general misery of the age in all parts of the globe; 5) Irrevocable Hours, sketches of Hitler, Mussolini, Hess, et al., including a rational argument that Hess is in England because Hitler sent him there; 6) The River Flows Home, a hortatory and prophetic essay suggesting the shape of things to come. Sample: "The tumult breaks out once more. A mob storms the Bastille and a king's head rolls...
...some 3,000 war prisoners (excluding men able to fight). For two days last week two shiploads of military (wounded) and civilian (interned) German prisoners were held up at Newhaven as rumors flew thick & fast that scheduled sailings had been delayed because Adolf Hitler demanded the return of Rudolf Hess, who went A.W.O.L., so that he could clap him into a Nazi insane asylum...
...Other Hess rumors: 1) he was interned in Canada ; 2 ) he was on a hunger strike because the British refused to treat him as a "special envoy...
Thyssen's first contribution was indirect -about 100,000 gold marks to Ludendorff for a Hitler-Ludendorff coup against the Communist Government of Saxony. (It did not come off, but turned into the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923.) In 1928 Rudolf Hess went to Thyssen and told him the Nazis were hard put to pay for the Brown House they had bought in Munich. Thyssen arranged a loan through the banks. Only a small part of it was ever paid by the Nazis; Thyssen paid the rest himself. Hermann Goring wanted to enlarge his apartment "to cut a better...
Thyssen became well acquainted with Hitler, but not intimate. Once Hitler, Hess and the malodorous Captain Roehm slept at Thyssen's father's house. In 1932 Thyssen brought Hitler to address the Industry Club of Dusseldorf. The assembled magnates were impressed when Hitler pontificated: "The economic parallel of political democracy is Communism...