Word: weyl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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National Socialism was Depression's angry child. Say Authors Weyl and Jansen: "In the elections of May 1928 the National Socialists polled a total of only 809,000 votes in all Germany. By September 1930 the brown flood had swollen to 6,500,000 votes. . . . At the end of July 1932, with more than 13,500,000 votes and 230 [Reichstag] deputies, the Nazis reached the peak of their legal power in the Weimar State...
National Socialism grew to brutal manhood on appeasement's food. Hitler's Enabling Act had passed in 1933 because the Catholic Center Party voted for it, thinking that Hitlerism would run its brief course to ruin if left alone. Said a local Social Democratic leader whom Authors Weyl and Jansen call Kurt Riemann: "If we stick to the legal way our enemies will be destroyed, because right will be on our side." But Social Democracy was destroyed. "In the case of Germany the democrats of Weimar had relinquished the bastion without raising a hand in its defense...
...Darkest Hour. Of the German Underground, Authors Weyl and Jansen write: "The collapse of the Western Front in 1940 ushered in the opposition's darkest hour in the war period.... Men and women who for years had worked in the Underground gave up their organizational connections. . . . 'Our attitude toward the Nazis and toward the regime has not changed one iota,' but what...
Toward Revolution? In January 1943, Social Democrats Weyl and Jansen write of "The Coming Revolution in Germany": "We know that when the majority of the people is unwilling to continue to live under the existing rule, we have the first prerequisite for a revolutionary change. ... In Nazi Germany today this first prerequisite for revolution is to a great extent present. . . . The way to the revolutionary overthrow of the Nazi regime is still far, [but] the first steps ... are already behind...
Jansen and Weyl, who have felt Naziism's heavy hand, forecast a reign of terror in the Reich before the Nazis' grip is loosed. This punishment, they believe, is inevitable and must be suffered. But they take issue with those who class all Germans as Nazi brutes whose record bars them forever from a place in future world affairs. They predict for Germany "a government of the people, by the people and for the people" which will be established by a democratic revolution. As Social Democrats and members of the Underground they speak...