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There were many subjects that Adolf Hitler skipped in this week's speech to the Reichstag. He did not skip the cold Russian winter, and underlined the fact that the thermometer had dropped to 62° F below. He got in the "archcapitalist" British, the "scoundrel" Jews, the "criminal" Churchill, the "maniac" Roosevelt, the "heroic" Japanese, and the Almighty, of whom he asked "nothing more . . . than that He should bless us in the future as He has done in the past...
...said nothing about the Chinese. He told the Reichstag nothing about U.S. war production. He had absolutely nothing to offer as to when he would win the war. Instead, he lamely declared: "Next winter, wherever we may be, the Army in the East will be better armed and equipped...
...some giving out. He absorbs, memorizes, digests the lectures and reading material. This he is expected to remember for specific examinations. This he is spoon-fed. This, in the long run, is what he forgets. Who was Catherine of Sienna, and on what day did Hitler burn the Reichstag? The particulars are soon lost. What is "left over," what remains, is the ability to make accurate generalizations, to get to the heart of an issue and make comprehensive deductions from any given set of facts. To retain this is to approach what President Conant calls, "a study that...
...floor of the Reichstag, before Hitler came to power, a woman delegate, a Social Democrat, was mourning her son who had fallen in the first War. A Nazi delegate shouted: "That's what you old nanny-goats were made for!" After Hitler came to power, mothers of four, six and eight children were awarded, respectively, medals of iron, silver, gold...
Surrounded by the gilded cupids of Berlin's Kroll Opera House, facing the upturned faces of the puppet Reichstag. Reich Marshal Hermann Goring declared with beefy deference: "Führer, speak...