Word: nazis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clue to Nazi restraint was found in the return to Danzig, after more than two months absence, of League of Nations High Commissioner, Professor Karl J. Burckhardt, whom Adolf Hitler recently described as "a man of extraordinary tact." Official explanation of the Commissioner's return was that he was to undertake a survey of the Danzig situation for the League. The Poles greeted his arrival as a reassertion of League authority. Nazi newspapers, cued by suggestions in the French and British press that "Danzig is not worth a war," thought they knew better, and hailed tactful Professor Burckhardt...
...murmur before giving in, the National Association of Broadcasters moved to have the regulations threshed out in public hearings. Meantime no short-waver signed up any advertising accounts, and one even so far endangered international good will as to broadcast to Germany in German how No. i U. S. Nazi, Bundfiihrer Fritz Kuhn, was arrested in Pennsylvania after an indictment charging grand larceny...
...readers hear more about concentration camps than they do about literary life in Hitler's Naziland. Nazi publishing facts at first glance look startling indeed. The Third Reich publishes 25,000 books annually (U. S. total is 11,000; Britain's 16,000). Scores of new writers, unheard-of before Hitler, have popped into the best-seller class. U. S. Writers Thomas Wolfe and William Faulkner are favorites of the Nazi Napoleons...
...Nazis call their literary brand "steel romanticism" to distinguish it from the foggy fervors of the traditional German romantics. Pet bugbear of Nazi writers is "Jewish realism and intellectualism." Their pet ideal is an Aryan hero who does not yet exist. On paper he is: 1) an individual only in the sense that he is one of a blood community; 2) close to the soil, because his blood community has lived close to it for generations; 3) perfectly poised between these poles of blood and soil, so that his actions are always determined by them, but appear to be instinctive...
...Nazi writers have succeeded little better than Nazi drill sergeants in filling rush orders for the model Nazi hero. In real life he might be a nuisance; in a book he is a bore...