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Suppressed in France and also in Germany lest it endanger the Franco-German relations of 1933, the Miraculous Victory of Emperor Ulrich collected dust on Poet Thomasset's bookshelf while its author continued to dream and prune his vines. At the time of the Austrian Anschluss he hoisted a swastika over his chateau, greeted his neighbors with the only German words he had ever learned: "Heil Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Ulrich alias Adolf | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Ulrich alias Adolf | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

GERMANY Seven years ago, sitting in his gloomy chateau at St. Gilles in eastern France, Johannes Thomasset, a gentleman farmer, spare-time poet, Francophobe and "passionate lover" of all things Germanic, dreamed of Burgundian knights of old, of Gundicar and Gunderic, who, coming from Germany, carved a kingdom for themselves in the bosom of degenerate Gaul. In the summer he pruned his grapevines, hunted Germanic relics on his land, and penned iambic attacks on the Latin descendants of those Gauls who finally crushed the flower of Burgundian knighthood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Ulrich alias Adolf | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

...Poet Thomasset had a vision and from it emerged a book: The Miraculous Victory of Emperor Ulrich. An immaculate ruler and spiritual descendant of Parsifal, Emperor Ulrich liberated France by crushing her in a war. He made Brittany the centre of a Celtic group of provinces, including her "racial sister," Ireland. Alsace-Lorraine, Champagne and Burgundy he placed "directly under the protection of the Holy (German) Empire." Italy was assigned to "protect and guide" the provinces of southeast France. The Basques and Catalans on both sides of the Pyrenees were united and made independent. A "Great United Kingdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Ulrich alias Adolf | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

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