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Women kissed and cried. Strangers embraced. Radios played Dentschland uber Alles (Germany Over All) over & over, over & over repeated the news that Adolf Hitler had received, through Spain's Francisco Franco, Marshal Pétain 's offer to surrender. But in the Champagne country of France, where the yellow dust raised by men and machines lay thick on the trampled vines, Germans and Frenchmen still slaughtered one another. Adolf Hitler ordered no armistice, Pétain no unconditional surrender...
...your Sept. 11 issue, p. 68, . . . you speak of Germany's Deutschland Uber Alles as being one of its hymns of might. You're wrong. It is anything but that. It is a hymn of German unity, written by a liberal-minded German professor about 1841 and he promptly lost his academic position, travelled incognito from door to door begging his bread. The poem really sets limits to the geographical boundary of Germany...
...Freude (Strength Through Joy) organization, and Reich Minister of Propaganda Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels was conspicuously present in the front row. Before the festival ends next week they will see three native German dramas: Josef von Eichendorff's Die Freier, Friedrich von Schiller's Die Räuber, Gerhart Hauptmann's Florian Geyer. But Shakespeare is the main dish. A Midsummer Night's Dream opened the festival, was scheduled for 21 performances...
...Deputies of the Reichstag. Each is paid $240 monthly; in the last two years the Reichstag has been in session a total of four days, its "work" consisting of passing unanimous votes of Nazi approval, cheering Nazi bigwigs to the echo, singing Deutschland Uber Alles and the Horst Wessel Lied in the Kroll Opera House, where it has met since the Reichstag Building was burned (TIME, March...
November 4--Der Mensch Uber der Nature...