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Safe in Portugal, after a report last month of his capture by the Nazis in Paris, was grim, Hitler-hating Otto Strasser, leader of the subterranean Black Front, who hope some day to erase the Nazi Führer...
...Hitler has no patent on fifth columns. Ever since Hitler took power, boomerang fifth columns have operated against the Nazis. Most famed, and reputedly the most effective, is the Black Front, an organization of ex-Nazis, ex-Communists, ex-Socialists. Its leader is Otto Strasser, who is widely regarded as the German most likely to destroy Adolf Hitler...
...long training for the job. Strasser fought through all four years of World War I. He led the workers' militia against the generals who tried to over throw the Weimar Republic in the Kapp Putsch. His elder brother, Gregor Strasser, was Hitler's first Gauleiter (district leader). Brother Gregor, whose secretary was Heinrich Himmler, converted reluctant Brother Otto to the Nazi cause. Then both went into Nazi publishing, hired away from their enemies a live-wire propagandist-Paul Joseph Goebbels. Later Otto Strasser broke openly with Hitler. Brother Gregor did not break away. He resigned his Party posts...
Last week, under the somewhat ambitious title Hitler and I, was published Otto Strasser's story of Hitler's past. Few books gave promise of being more enlightening. But this one did not quite live up to its promise. Valuable is its firsthand account of the rise of the Nazis and the Strasser role in it. Valuable too were the intimate glimpses and records of Nazi big shots; of Hitler in conversation with Ludendorff, Hindenburg, his sub-leaders; a vivid account of the June Purge, its debunking of Hitler's part in it; the chronicles...
Readers may wish that the book contained less about Author Strasser, more about the activities of his Black Front, more about the political orgies of the Nazi inner circle, less about their personal debauches...