Word: nazis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With pomp reminiscent of old Imperial Germany, Adolf Hitler, Aggrandizer of the Reich, last week celebrated his 50th birthday. The representatives of conquered nations paid him humble homage. The envoys of fearful satellites rendered respectful tribute. Albert Forster, Nazi No. 1 of the Free City of Danzig, presented a document which made the Fuhrer an honorary citizen of a town he may soon appropriate. Special delegations from Germany's allies were received in special audience...
Church bells rang from swastika-decorated churches as the day began. The Reich's Cabinet ministers swore anew to their "faith in the word of Adolf Hitler." Nazi Party leaders gathered in the Sportspalast to renew their oaths of loyalty. The 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment, in which Corporal Hitler once served, got out a photographic album of the regiment's World War history...
...honor, 2,000,000 heils greeted him. On the new Via Triumphalis, the broad East-West "axis" which Herr Hitler himself ordered cut through the heart of a fast rebuilding capital, the former corporal acted for all the world like an emperor. He wore his usual simple brown Nazi uniform, but on the cap, below a spread eagle, were gilded oak leaves encasing a swastika-the mark of the supreme military commander he is. He sat on a gilded thronelike chair placed on a raised dais covered with red plush. He was protected by a grey canopy decorated with eagles...
Above the Führer flew 162 warplanes in formation. Before him passed in review for four hours the flower of his Army, some 40,000 men in full fighting regalia. With them passed the grimmest, most impressive war machines that Nazi Germany could muster-tanks, artillery, armored cars. Interested foreign military attaches saw little new equipment, but the representatives of small, trembling States could scarcely fail to be impressed...
Meantime his decisions are based on the opinions of an ever-narrowing group of advisers. The adoring Nazi Deputy Leader Rudolf Hess, who follows his leader even in his moods, is still constantly at his side. But the Führer has become so inaccessible to most of his Cabinet that only Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Dr. Goebbels are now able to ask for and get private interviews. Five-sevenths along his Biblically allotted span of life, this strange man has at least the satisfaction of knowing that he has become the most formidable political tactician...