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...jack-rabbity little mouthpiece for Adolf Hitler. Actually, he is smart. He has a kind of courage. He understands the forces at work in the world well enough to pervert their meanings into brass-bold and effective propaganda. And it has long been apparent that when the Third Reich came to crisis-as it is now in crisis-power would go either to Goebbels' radical "leftist" wing of the Nazi Party, or to a "rightist" army clique...
Life under the Heel. Planning eventually to incorporate the Ukraine into the Greater Reich, the Germans fostered schools for Ukrainians, with special emphasis on technical training. Many Ukrainian teachers, unable to retreat when the Nazis came, taught in these schools. Movie theaters were open in most cities. Artists in cities like Odessa and Kiev were permitted to exhibit non-political works. Plays ridiculing the Soviet regime were occasionally produced under German auspices...
...Germans expended the absolute minimum on the conquered Ukrainians, extracted the utmost. For Russian handicraft products the Germans exchanged useless junk imported from the Reich. German firms opened offices in the large cities, blanketed the countryside with traveling salesmen. Solely to survive, some Ukrainians cooperated with the Nazis who had come to organize "free trade." Rather than starve, Russian bootblacks served German soldiers at street-corner stands. Other Russians opened photographic studios, candy shops, cafes. But even Berlin newspapers have admitted that the spirit of subservience to the Germans is rare in the Ukraine...
...killed, permanently wounded or captured in Hitler's war. This estimate equaled almost the entire German force which invaded Russia in June 1941; it approximated the full strength of the German armies which had laid down their weapons on the Armistice Day of World War I. Of the Reich's total population, 13% were estimated to be under arms, dead, or permanently disabled-3% more than the "normal mobilization" which is the generally considered maximum that any nation can spare, if its battlefronts are to be properly supplied by home-front production. On this basis, the U.S. could...
...African campaign. But, whoever was right, a parallel with the German position in 1918 was discernible. Until the last months of World War I, the German armies at the fronts were formidably strong. Yet the seeds of German defeat were working in their ranks and at home in the Reich, and the outward signs in 1918 were much the same as those which are visible...