Word: hitleritis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herr Hitler did not begin by talking peace. In fact for almost an hour of his 80-minute address-a loosely knit discussion with few of the great dramatic lifts that characterized the Führer's oratory before he began to discard his street-corner style in favor of what he considers the more statesmanlike fashion-he talked about almost everything except peace. Germans and colored folk like their sermons long and discursive, and, in spite of a disordered world's need for straight plain talk, that is the way the Germans are still getting them from...
Lies and Laurels. The Polish victory came first on Speaker Hitler's list, accompanied by three bare-faced lies. Lie No. 1: "A state of no less than 36,000,000 inhabitants took up arms against us. Their arms were far-reaching, and their confidence in their ability to crush Germany knew no bounds." Lie No. 2: In spite of the "violations and insults which Germany and her armed forces had to put up with from these military dilettantes," the First Soldier of the Reich claimed that he "endeavored to restrict aerial warfare to objectives of so-called military...
...Abortion." Herr Hitler paid his respects to all ranks of the vanquished Poles in another few thousand well-chosen words. The Polish government was supported by only 15% of the population, a "lapdog of the Western democracies," an "abortion" of the Versailles Treaty. As to the character of the population, he went back to 1598 and quoted a diplomatic report of one Sir George Carew: "The outstanding features of Polish character were cruelty and lack of moral restraint." When modern Poland, "although not menaced at all," received the Allies' guarantees, the "shameless insults" which she heaped on the Third...
...Thanks to Mr. Stalin." Next Herr Hitler went on to "point out some facts that cannot be refuted by the scribblings of international press liars." "It has . . . been proved that only as an entity is this central European space capable of existence, and whoever breaks up that entity commits a crime against millions of people," declared Herr Hitler. If people did not like the way a "tolerable order of things was established in Central Europe," then Herr Hitler could only answer that it was not the "method but the useful result that counts"-i.e., that the end justifies the means...
...Perhaps the day will come." Now that Poland was subjugated and Germany was on such excellent terms with all her neighbors-including Britain and France, as far as he was concerned-Mr. Hitler wondered what all the shooting was about on the Western Front. At this point Adolf Hitler figuratively vanished into the drapery behind him and a composite character made up of Aristide Briand, Ramsay MacDonald, Gustav Stresemann, Neville Chamberlain, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Cordell Hull suddenly took his place. The change of word and wind was nothing short of fantastic. Pacific, idealistic, hopeful, tenderly humane and sweetly vague...