Word: thyssens
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...Wagner; with the rhythmic plans of the German General Staff first to dominate Europe and then the world; with the rondo movement of German Junkers and industrialists to seize world markets. Naziism was nourished and adopted by Army men like embittered, ever-dreaming General Erich Ludendorff, industrialists like Fritz Thyssen and Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, businessmen like Helmuth Wohlthat, Junkers like Franz von Papen...
...Church and the German and Japanese fifth columus, and fully develops the economic and political situations of the ABC countries in particular. He warns that the proletarians and growing middle classes are pro-American, but that the feudal aristocracies with some of the intelligentsia will sell out like Fritz Thyssen to Fascism. Herring writes with understanding, objectivity, and candor; and though his style is the beautiful prose of the scholar of language and literature, he is no effervescent schoolmarm gushing about the strange scenery of foreign shores...
Specifically, Steel charged Bruening with failure to "condemn Nazism or any of its atrocities" since his arrival in this country. The unemotional ex-Chancellor was alleged to be a potential Charlie McCarthy for industrialists and financiers of the Fritz Thyssen variety, now out for a "second chance" to control Germany...
...often been rumored that Hitler is partly Jewish. Thyssen gives plausible reasons for believing that, if Hitler does have Jewish blood, it comes from a distinguished family: "According to the published records, Hitler's grandmother had an illegitimate son, and this son was to become the father of Germany's present leader. But an inquiry once ordered by the late Austrian chancellor, Engelbert Dollfuss, disclosed that the Fuhrer's grandmother became pregnant during her employment as a servant in a Viennese family. . . . And the family . . . was none other than that of Baron Rothschild...
...course, no matter where she was employed, any plowboy might have fathered Hitler's grandmother's son. But Thyssen says that Hitler's spies told him of the existence of the document, that it was probably a factor in Dollfuss' assassination, that Hitler later wrested it from Schuschnigg. Thyssen also heard that a copy of it was "in the hands of the British Secret Service...