Hitler - "Man Of The Year" TIME Magazine, 1938

JGeropoulas

The Living Force
I had heard that Hitler had been TIME magazine’s “Man of the Year" so I checked it out for myself. The cover shows Organist Adolf Hitler playing his hymn of hate in a desecrated cathedral while victims dangle on a St. Catherine's wheel and the Nazi hierarchy looks on. Knowing there are so many parallels between him/Germany and Bush/America, I couldn’t resist reading the accompanying article. Here are the excerpts I found most relevant. Keep in mind, this was written in 1938 after six years in power and before the outbreak of WW2.
More significant was the fact Hitler became in 1938 the greatest threatening force that the democratic, freedom-loving world faces today…

Throughout eastern Europe after Munich the trend was toward less freedom, more dictatorship. In the U.S. alone did democracy feel itself strong enough at year's end to give Hitler his come-uppance…

Fascism has discovered that freedom--of press, speech, assembly--is a potential danger to its own security. In Fascist phraseology democracy is often coupled with Communism. The Fascist battle against freedom is often carried forward under the false slogan of "Down with Communism!" One of the chief German complaints against democratic Czechoslovakia last summer was that it was an "outpost of Communism."…

The Russian Communist Revolution promoted the evil of class war. Hitler topped it by another, race war. Fascism and Communism both resurrected religious war. These multiple forms of barbarism gave shape in 1938 to an issue over which men may again, perhaps soon, shed blood: the issue of civilized liberty v. barbaric authoritarianism…

Radio's Man of the Year was youthful Orson Welles who, in his famous The War of the Worlds broadcast, scared fewer people than Hitler, but more than had ever been frightened by radio before, demonstrating that radio can be a tremendous force in whipping up mass emotion…

The genius of free wills has been so stifled by the oppression of dictatorship that Germany's output of poetry, prose, music, philosophy, art has been meager indeed…

The man most responsible for this world tragedy is a moody, brooding, unprepossessing, 49-year-old Austrian-born ascetic with a Charlie Chaplin mustache. The son of an Austrian petty customs official, Adolf Hitler was raised as a spoiled child by a doting mother. Consistently failing to pass even the most elementary studies, he grew up a half-educated young man, untrained for any trade or profession, seemingly doomed to failure…

To this man of no trade and few interests the Great War was a welcome event which gave him some purpose in life…

Imprisonment also gave Hitler time to perfect his tactics. Even before that time he got from his Communist opponents the idea of gangster-like party storm troopers; after this the principle of the small cell groups of devoted party workers…

Outlawed in many German districts, the National Socialist Party nevertheless climbed steadily in membership. Time-honored Tammany Hall methods of handing out many small favors were combined with rowdy terrorism and lurid, patriotic propaganda…

and the craving of large sections of the politically immature German people for strong, masterful leadership…

Fuhrer Hitler, whose reading has always been very limited, invites few great minds to visit him…

Chancellor Hitler began to turn the Reich inside out. Unemployment was solved by: 1) a far-reaching program of public works; 2) an intense re-armament program, including a huge standing army; 3) enforced labor in the service of the State (the German Labor Corps); 4) putting political enemies and Jewish, Communist and Socialist jobholders in concentration camps…

What Adolf Hitler & Co. did to Germany in less than six years was applauded wildly and ecstatically by most Germans…

His was no ordinary dictatorship, but rather one of great energy and magnificent planning…

What Adolf Hitler & Co. did to the German people in that time left civilized men and women aghast. Civil rights and liberties have disappeared. Opposition to the Nazi regime has become tantamount to suicide or worse. Free speech and free assembly are anachronisms…

Pace quickened, Germany's 700,000 Jews have been tortured physically, robbed of homes and properties, denied a chance to earn a living, chased off the streets…

The Nazi credo that the individual belongs to the state also applies to business. Some businesses have been confiscated outright, on other what amounts to a capital tax has been levied…80% of all building and 50% of all industrial orders in Germany originated last year with the Government.

Hard-pressed for food-stuffs…the Nazi regime has taken over large estates and in many instances collectivized agriculture, a procedure fundamentally similar to Russian Communism…

not only did Germany face a lowered standard of living, its "self-sufficiency" was cracking…

Germans disliked the cruelties of their Government, but were afraid to protest them…

Having a hard time to provide enough bread to go round, Fuhrer Hitler was being driven to give the German people another diverting circus. The Nazi controlled press, jumping the rope at the count of Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, shrieked insults at real and imagined enemies. And the pace of the German dictatorship quickened as more & more guns rolled from factories and little more butter was produced…

the German Army has become a formidable machine which could probably be beaten only by a combination of opposing armies…

Meanwhile an estimated 1,133 streets and squares…acquired the name of Adolf Hitler…sold 900,000 new copies of Mein Kampf in Germany…

among military men the poser is: "Will Hitler fight when it becomes definitely certain that he is losing that race?"…

There is no guarantee that the have-not nation will go to sleep when they have taken what they now want from the haves.

[In the preceding, note the correlation between Hitler and Bush is inverse, i.e. "because this nation is asleep, the haves have taken what they want from the have-nots--soon to become the have nothings)

To those who watched the closing events of the year it seemed more than probable that the Man of 1938 may make 1939 a year to be remembered…
Full text here: http://www.scrapbookpages.com/DachauMemorial/TimeCover.html
 
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The main game for those in power then (and now) is not the cause of freedom, but hoping for and contriving events which cause your rivals to fail. The British Empire hated the rising German Empire, and WWI and the Treaty of Versailles was meant to ruin Germany. Germany sent Lenin to Russia to destabilize the country. The Allies were in no hurry to land in Europe as long as Russia and Germany were knocking each other out. Stalin waited patiently while the Nazis put down the Warsaw uprising, which flared up in hopes of speeding up the liberation of Poland by the Russians. Rumsfeld partnered up with Saddam in hopes of destabilizing the Middle East. It goes on and on. All the political speeches that talk about humanitarian ideals are just smoke and cover for the real agenda which is to spread chaos and mayhem wherever possible, in hopes of profiting from it.
 
very interesting slide show by Alex Krainer hosted by Mathew Ehret on Rising Tide, called
"The shocking truth about the 1938 Munich Agreement"
It is 2 hours and 18 minutes, and the first hour is a slide show by Alex Krainer, followed by Q&A by people on the zoom call.
From the Rising Tide website:
In this Rising Tide Foundation presentation, economic analyst, researcher and historian Alex Krainer shed light on the shocking truth of the 1938 Munich Agreement and broader Tripartite agenda for a fascist world order which nearly succeeded before and even during WW2.
 
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