Word: leys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Ley is one of the more radical oldtimers of the Nazi Party. He organized the Party into its prison-model machinery of blocks, cells, wardens. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, he was made head of the Labor Front, proceeded forcibly to liquidate the free trade unions, numbering 4,000,000 members. In his ability to incite-and entertain, he combined the talents of Billy Sunday and Billy Rose. He staged the vast Nürnberg Party rallies each year, and built the "Strength Through Joy" organization, which mass-produced recreation, playgrounds, loyalty-all convertible...
...this while Robert Ley tossed out pronouncements which tended to set him up as a second-string oracle. When the Party wanted discipline, he ranted against nicotine, alcohol and debauchery (despite his own proclivity for liquor, generously indulged on "Strength Through Joy" outings). When Germany needed manpower, he lectured the Many Children League on that "natural, healthy" phenomenon, illegitimacy (see col. 2). When Lebensraum (living space) and the Communist menace were in the air, he proclaimed: "In Germany 147 men have to live on one square kilometre-in Russia only nine. This may be borne for a time by superhuman...
...Last week Nazi Germany came right out and declared its intention not only to beat Great Britain but to dominate the world, and it was Robert Ley who made the declaration. The theory of Germanic superiority lies at the nub of Nazi doctrine, was the hypothesis of Mein Kampf. But until last week no responsible German had ever talked right out for the world to hear about Germany's heaven-given right to rule. Dr. Ley did. In a speech in conquered Lemberg, German Poland, he said...