Word: hrerprinzip
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Said the encyclopedia's 1937 edition: "Naziism is an attitude towards life. . . . Naziism does not regard people as the sum of individual citizens but as a community bound by blood ties. . . . The foremost principle of Naziism is the Führerprinzip. This means victory over the parliamentary system and over majority rule in all spheres of life and consolidation of all politically and productively superior forces of the nation. . . . Naziism intends to bring about the final rebirth of the nation and to safeguard the continuation of existence of the Reich, in the definite belief in its historic mission...
Editors and statesmen of every capital in the world last week responded to news of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's landslide re-election (TIME. Nov. 9) with an international ovation for the winner. In Berlin the President was hailed as an exponent of the führerprinzip ("leadership principle") of Der Führer Adolf Hitler. In Moscow a high Soviet official cried: ''We are extremely gratified!" Rome climbed on the band wagon with eulogistic comparisons of President Roosevelt to Dictator Mussolini and Fascist editors recalled his refusal to join the League of Nations in Sanctions against Italy...
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