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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Germany marched into Poland last month the United Press reported that Colonel General Fritsch was with the Army advancing on Warsaw from East Prussia. The story out of Berlin then was that if he made good he would get a bigger Army job. But subsequently the Army officially denied that he was even in Poland, said he had applied for active duty, been refused. He was not listed among the top six Generals in Poland, although he outranked all of them but Commander-in-Chief of the Land Forces Brauchitsch...
Last week the Associated Press reported from Berlin that the Army again denied Fritsch was in Poland. Twenty-four hours later came an official German communique, datelined "Führer Headquarters." It announced: "Colonel General von Fritsch was killed the 22nd of September in battle before Warsaw. . . . The Führer ordered a military and state funeral...
...Britain and France-on paper at least, their Mediterranean fleets could blow his to bits and their armies might overrun northern Italy. If he stuck it out in the other direction, he would have his other transalpine neighbor, Adolf Hitler, to deal with. And so, while the Italian press explained that Italy would remain neutral indefinitely, Mussolini...
...During the whole of this first conversation Hitler was excitable and uncompromising. He made no long speeches, but his language was violent and exaggerated both as regards England and Poland. . . . While I did not wish to try to deny that persecutions occurred (of Poles also in Germany) the German press accounts were highly exaggerated. He had mentioned the castration of Germans. I happened to be aware of one case. The German in question was a sex maniac who had been treated as he deserved. Hitler's retort was that there had not been one case, but six. . . . I contested...
...Fifth Hitler interview (August 29) : "The interview this evening was of a stormy character and Hitler was far less reasonable than yesterday. A press announcement this evening that five more Germans had been killed in Poland and news of the Polish mobilization had obviously excited...