CONTENTS
CHAPTER
PREFACE
I. INTRODUCTORY
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II. THE ALLIES AND THE REVOLUTION
The Armistice—Peace Conference at Paris—
Terms of the Peace—Conferences of the Allies
—Reparations—Military Occupation in Rhineland—rThe Ruhr—Rhineland High Commis­
sion—Refugees—"Separatists"—Good Will at
Last!
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III. THE REPUBLIC AND ITS OBSTACLES
Republic Never got Fair Play—Privileged
Opponents—Hugo Stinnes—Reichstag Started
Weak—The Reichswehr—The Kapp Putsch—
Reactionary Judges—Ebert, First President—
Erzberger—Military Clubs and Private Armies
—Certain German Expressions
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IV. GERMANY'S EFFORT TO PAY
Political Parties—The Communists—Rathenau
—The Ruhr and Inflation—Stresemann—
Inflation Collapse Before the Ruhr—The
Dawes Plan
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V. STRESEMANN AND COMPLIANCE
Stresemann Offers a Peace Pact—Germany
and the League—Stresemann's Achievements—
The Treaty of Locarno—Germany's Admission
to the League—Locarno Opposed by Reaction­
aries—Recovery After Locarno—The Hague
Conference, 1929. The Young Plan—Military
Occupation*Ended
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VI. THE WORLD COLLAPSE. REICHSTAG
OR REVOLUTION?
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Forces Against Labour—Reichstag Government
Threatened—Reichstag Election of Septem­
ber 14, 1930—Financial Anxiety Abroad—
Military Parades—Growth of Turbulence—
Hoover Moratorium — Disarmament — The
"Anschluss"
VII.
REICHSTAG
WEAKER.
HITLER
STRONGER
Conditions of 1931 Favour Hitler—Nazi
Increase of Votes—Great Events of 1932—
President Hindenburg—Hindenburg Re-elected
President—Hindenburg Dismisses Briining—
Lausanne Conference—German Withdrawal
from Disarmament Conference—Hitler's Policy
—von Schleicher Chancellor—German Claim
to Equality in Arms—New Year 1933 Opens
Ominously—Hitler Chancellor
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VIII. HITLER: THE MAN AND HIS METHODS
Adolf Hitler—The Nazi Party—Hitler in the
Munich Putsch—Hitler's Book: "My Struggle"
—Hitler in Leipzig Court—Hitler's Belief in
Himself—Hitler as Orator—Hitler in his
Meetings—Hitler and the Masses—Nazi Publi­
cations—Nazi Flag and Swastika—Hitler's
Authority
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IX. NAZIS AND NATIONALISTS
Hitler's Cabinet—Von Papen—Von Neurath
—Hugenberg—Seldte—Schacht—Von Blomberg—Von Krosigk—Giirtner—Rubenaich—
Nationalist Ministers but Nazi Policy—Goring
—Goebbels — Frick — Kerrl — Rosenberg —
Rosenberg's Mission to London—Feder—
Rohm—The Nazi Prospect
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER
X. THE
REICHSTAG
ELECTION
OF
MARCH 5, 1933. ITS IMMEDIATE
RESULTS
The Election Campaign—Hitler's Utterances
—Threatening Rumours—Communism not
the Danger—The Reichstag Fire—Result of
Election of March 5—Mystery and Suspicion
About the Fire
XI. HITLER'S DICTATORSHIP
No Nazi Mandate from the Voters—The Press
• and the Dictatorship—Nazi Use of the Press—
Ignorance of Value of a Free Press—Nazi Fear
of Foreign Opinion—Instances of Disillusion
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XII. HITLER'S REIGN OF TERROR
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A Real Reign of Terror—Violent Threats—
Terror Employed to Compel Approval—
Divergent Ideas of Terrorism—Excuses Easily
Found for the Terror—Terrorism Extended
into Remote Places—Hitler's Futile Appeal—
The"D.A.Z." Protest—IrrefragableEvidence—
Political Prisoners—Heartless Treatment of the
Sick—Refugees Driven out of Germany—
Grave Increase in "Suicides"—"Framed-up"
Accusations Against High Officials—Many
"Suicides" of Prisoners—A Typical Case: Frau
Jankowski
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German Anti-Semitism—Russian Anti-Semit­
ism Condemned—Hitler's Race Fanaticism—
Stock Arguments Against the Jews—Many
Cruelties on Jews—Many Recorded Cases—
Hitler's Immediate Attack on Jews—Civiliza­
tion Shocked—Nazi Cruelty Stirs the World—
The Boycott of April 1—The Boycott Failed,
Private Vengeance Increased—"No Jew a
Member of the Nation"—Germany's Cultural
Losses
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XIV. HITLER'S PROGRAMME
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Rapid Progress—Hitler's Future—Foreign
Policy—Frontier Dangers—Danzig, Saar,
Austria—Unification of the Reich—Hohenzollern Monarchy Less Likely—Return of Reign­
ing Princes Unlikely—Land Policy—Hitler's
Socialism — No Trades Unions Allowed—
Religion and Art—Health and Race Purity—
Sport—No Jews in "National" Sport—Educa­
tion Policy—Universities Under Hitler—
Holocaust of Non-German Books — Legal
Rights and Procedure—No "Objectivity or
Equality Before the Law"
EPILOGUE
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