Word: strassers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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NEMESIS? THE STORY OF OTTO STRASSER -Douglas Reed-Houghfon Mifflin...
...Otto Strasser was born in Bavaria 42 years ago, of a civil-servant father who was a Socialist at heart, a mother who nagged the Socialism out of him. When he emerged from World War I at 20, Otto was a creditably decorated artillery Lieutenant, already tinged with politics. His Socialism was such that he fought with Von Epp's Free Corps in 1919, to break Munich's Communist government. (Hitler did not. But he was in Munich then, may have been with the Communist troops...
Otto's brother Gregor knew and trusted Hitler from the first. Otto at first preferred the straight Socialist Party, joined up with Hitler in 1925. Douglas Reed makes of the next five years a picture of spotless, struggling idealism, shows Strasser bearing with Hitler's sellouts to big business as long as possible, walking out (in 1930) when he was sure once for all that National Socialism was betrayed...