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Education of a future Nazi big shot begins at age 8, when he enters one of the junior leadership schools called Napoli (National Political Institutes). The boys are supposedly chosen with extreme care; actually they are usually relatives of the Schutzstaffel or Gestapo men who pick candidates. In the Napoli, handsomely equipped boarding schools, boys live like young Etonians, go in for sports, "political instruction," Nazi race theories. Each boy gets his assignment early, thereafter concentrates on special studies for his role as Gauleiter of California, Texas, Argentina or Odessa, as the case...
Last week came his hour of triumph. Eagle-eyed Editor Gunter d'Alquen of Das Schwarze Korps, organ of Hitler's Schutzstaffel, discovered that Emperor Ulrich was none other than Adolf Hitler, proclaimed Poet Thomasset a new prophet of National Socialism. Reviewing The Miraculous Victory as an inspired revelation, he added a prophecy of his own: Thomasset's "vision of the future . . . may come more quickly now than Thomasset thought...
Afterward Schutzstaffel men claimed they found in the university an anti-Nazi broadcasting station and secret printing plant. Soon Prague heard the crack of firing squads. Nine Czech students were executed, and all universities in the Protectorate were closed for three years, treatment no less harsh than the Tsars used to give their rebellious undergraduates. Over 2,000 people were arrested in Prague. Eight hundred were almost immediately released, but the Nazis were said to be sending many of the rest to the notorious Buchenwald prison camp in Germany near Weimar...
...marching with Nazi banners and a band. This was more than the Czechs could bear. They rushed the guards, tore down their banner, scattered their ranks. A number were injured before the dutiful Czech police scattered the crowd, arresting several. Later a band of students surrounded a earful of Schutzstaffel officers and threatened them. The officers drew their pistols and fired into the air. When the day was over reports seeped even through the censor's office that four were dead, scores injured, thousands arrested...
...hrer quarreled. Roehm quit the country, became military adviser to Bolivia. The Führer saw the weakness of the loosely organized, unwieldy mob of Brown Shirts and decided to form, within the Storm Troopers, a carefully chosen elite group of men to be known as the Schutzstaffel ("Protective Corps"), better known as the 55 Guards. Their primary function at first was to guard the Führer. First 55 leader was the late Julius Schreck, the Führer's adjutant and chauffeur. In the next four years the leadership was changed three times; in 1929 Himmler...