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...dark comparison between the current inflationary trend and the days of Germany's post-World War I Weimar Republic, when inflation helped bring Hitler to power, was echoed several times. Said Joseph Kohlmaier, mayor of Limburg: "People here are generally pleased with the foreign policy of Willy Brandt, but there is also the feeling that the success in foreign policy has come at the expense of domestic programs. The Christian Democrats, in the minds of most people, stand for no inflation, even if it means a certain dampening of the job market...
...reactionary and materialist; 40 years ago, they assumed that the rise of strong unions would make egalitarian America awake and sing. The sense of One Worldly responsibility that Luce and others followed to stir the U.S. out of isolationism in 1937-1940, and so help preserve Europe from Adolf Hitler, has now become a rhetorical excuse for bombing Viet Nam. That is, among other things, an American tragedy, which might have been profitably explored through the life and times of Henry R. Luce. Swanberg, alas, was too angry to be serious...
...which they believe. Theirs is a war against both the rich and the urban poor, the activist workers and students, and the wealthy urban and suburban capitalists. The willingness of the paranoid elderly to entrust themselves to Marjoe recalls that scene in Cabaret in which a member of Hitler's Youth teaches the old men in a German beer garden the words to "Tommorrow Belongs...
...Langer, the difference between Hitler and other psychopaths was "his ability to convince others that he is what he is not." He could never quite convince himself, however, because the Führer personality never permanently supplanted his old self. Hitler, Langer said, "is not a single personality but two that inhabit the same body. The one is very soft and sentimental and indecisive. The other is hard, cruel and decisive. The first weeps at the death of a canary; the second cries that 'there will be no peace in the land until a body hangs from every lamppost...
That duality led to the horrible excesses that occurred in Nazi Germany's twilight. "As Germany suffers successive defeats, Hitler will become more and more neurotic," Psychoanalyst Langer warned the OSS. "Each defeat will shake his confidence and limit his opportunities for proving his own greatness to himself. He will probably try to compensate for his vulnerability by stressing his brutality and ruthlessness...