Show Hitler Germanys Germany's Man of Mystery Founded His Success on Psychology Czech Crisis Presented First Test of Bluff Game That Won Him Power Over Reich By JOSEPH W W. LaBINE The greatest mystery of our modern times is Adolf Hitler t who feels within himself a godlike p mandate to guide Germanys Germany's p. p destiny Perhaps that hat very mystery is what gives him strength for or men have always stood in awe of that hat which they cannot un un- d Behind the mustache and frowning eyes lies a mind that hat is both brilliant and ir ir- ir irrational rational Adolf Hitler is at once a master of other men and a sl slave ve to himself He lIe isan is isan isan an inveterate brooder and though hough brooders seldom have power over other men Der Fuehrer is master of the Reich Retch He is a bluffer who has stubbornly stubbornly stub stub- waved a two-edged two sword at world democracy refusing to give an inch because be- be c ause cause dictators cannot afford to change hange their minds But It cannot be said that Hitler's power has gone to his head for he demonstrated d this same stubbornness stubborn stubborn- n ness ess long before the Munich beer beer- cellar ell a r putsch long before the late President resident von grudgingly grudging grudging- ly made him chancellor I To know the man you must follow fol fol- fol lo low w his hll growth a story in to whose very every ever chapter is a trace of the bit bit- erness that can only come from m misguided genius It is the story ofa of ofa a potential giant who stumbled through his faro earl early years gears groping d desperately for an anchor Austrian by Birth His lis ancestral home is Spittal Austria once on the frontier where poverty and inbreeding have long been the peasants' peasants tragedy His father was Alois Hit Icy ler a willed strong-willed cobbler whose fi first wife brought him money whose second wife died shortly after her marriage and end whose third wife was the first Mrs hiss Hitler's housemaid It was to this third wife wits that the child Adolf was born loom a weak sensitive tive child who disliked his fats father and who probably learned to brood through this same dislike He Ill lived within himself so so much that his fats former playmates have pictured pic ply lured him standing on a hillside at night bawling a political speech at two fruit trees while school chool chums chum g gin giggled led In n the nearby bushes He lIe was expelled from school for smoking amok mok ing a strange trick in view of the adult Adolf Hitler's strict abstinence And it t was at Vienna when 17 that the future first felt life reality Twice refused admission admission ad ad- mission minion to an art school forced to earn his bread and beer by painting houses and hanging paper he serf tut for flue five years the agonies of ofa ofa a man who feels himself unwanted by society But this bitterness was enough to set let him thinking In Mein Kampf Kempf the autobiography he was to write later while sulking in a German prison he attempts frantically to explain the Vienna failure by heaping scorn on the effete on Jewish capitalists capital ista and unpatriotic Socialists In 1912 he left Vienna for Munich Munich Mu Mu- nich turning his back on the Austria he was destined one day to rule Inthe In Inthe Inthe the World war he served four years mostly as an orderly carrying mes meso s sages ages Comrades describe him as ea a recluse who loved war and boasted how he would conduct Germany Germanys offensive The comrades laughed and called Adolf Hitler sin ein Spinner Spin Spins nerv ner which is Bavarian dialect for tor forone torone forone one who is la cracked Shortly before the armistice on October 14 1918 he was gassed am and taken to the hospital There while peace was signed while Germany suffered he closed hi his eyes and remained blind three Nl tt 1 1 r t k j W I II 5 I illS HIS FOLLOWERS WERE REWARDED This RETARDED This l picture waa tea taken aken early in 1932 before belore Adolf Hitler flitter became chancellor as aa a he te addressed a matt mass meeting o of 01 f national socialist students Inconspicuous In In- conspicuous completion In the he background at a left f of oj Hitler flitter were IDere Herman elm Wilhelm Goering now note chief chiel of o afaO staff and Paul Joseph Goebbels now note propaganda minister lter months A psychologist has said he took ook refuge in blindness a nervous reaction in which he did not allow himself to see Germanys Germany's shame Medical annals record such cases I Finds Ills His Tongue Peace brought Socialists Communists Communists and reactionaries to Germany men who loved to orate from soap boxes In such an electrified element element ele ele- ment Hitler found his tongue developed de des oratorical tricks and learned to o control his audience like a magician The bitterness of youth was giving way to the vengeful It t of manhood Adolf Hitler was on ont t aa r r ra K t o. o i t it t 1 t tJ J I The Te modern Adolf Hitler a torrid speechmaker who believes believes be be- the masses mauel are unintelligent unintelligent gent that they hey will Cill learn only by constant repetition his way planning craftily like a press agent for the up build that would eventually bring him to power From Austria's ancient national national socialism he took the swastika a good luck sign of ot antiquity From his party the workers national socialist socialist socialist so so- group he took the initials which In German spelled Nazi Nail From Mussolini who was about to march on Rome in a Pullman car he borrowed the shirt idea because h he be knew Germans loved uniforms His Ills program aimed at atthe atthe atthe the nebulous objective of building a great nation bad had as its cardinal principles the ousting of Jews repudiation repudiation re re- repudiation of war guilt reparations reparation s and the Versailles treaty His stronghold was Munich and d there he be began drawing huge crowds crowd at speeches delivered wherever there was an audience usually in beer cellars Thus came the famous famous fa beer cellar putsch an almost almost- fatal blunder through which besought he be sought a short cut to power Leading 2000 Nazis he swung into the square fronting Munich's historic his toxic where local police killed 14 of his followers But the dynamics of Hitlerism had taken effect Sentenced to five dve years in prison he was released six lix months later by a warden who whispered Herr Hitler you have made a Nazi out of me to Power Potter That was in 1924 and the next six years found Germany prospering then succumbing to depression Far Faring from defeated though still brood brood- ing Hitler had realized his Munich blunder and was building a stronger party part On the night of September 14 1930 the world gasped to learn he had won deputies in the Reichstag election placing the Nazi party second in power Two years later he was reluctantly made chancellor chancellor chan chan- by President von van Hindenburg and the conquest was complete AU All but one thing rise had produced faithless followers one of them Ernst Roehm On June 30 1934 he and a at least 70 10 others were quietly liquidated and the world knew Adolf Hitler was su sus supreme preme in Germany Wh Why Is it his remarkable gift of oratory his personality his program pro pro- gram gram or or fear Is it Germanys Germany's appreciation appreciation ap ap- predation of the Fuehrer who has led them confidently from one conquest conquest con con- quest to another Probably a combination of these qualities but behind them all aU is the most important secret Adolf Hitler is a master psychologist He lIe threw over the Versailles treaty and walked into the Rhineland when Great Britain and France were bus busy watching Premier Mussolini's conquest conquest con con- quest of Ethiopia He lIe took possession possession posses posses- sion slon of Austria when Britain and France were busy with internal strife His game of foreign conquest conquest con con- quest has been a continuous bluff until it seemed certain that no power power pow pow- er would challenge his occupation of Czechoslovakia He was mistaken there but the bluff continued with amazing success suc suc- cess He lIe turned down repeated offers of fers fors of peaceful settlement confident dent that Britain and France would eventually capitulate When they refused he caused a war scare that threw all Europe into a turmoil Atthe At Atthe Atthe the last moment when there seemed no wa way to avoid armed conflict he summoned a meeting of powers to discuss a peaceful settlement His History tory will say he won again Psychology Triumphant He uses psychology in to orator oratory knowing that emotion Is a stronger appeal than common sense lense The words come in torrents at first high high- pitched then intense then breaking into a sob He lie uses psychology in showman showman- ship At the recent Munich party part congress he kept the air charged with constant expectation Soldiers marched and bands blared Loudspeakers Loud speakers announced Der Fuehrer ever movement he left hotel hotel ho ho- hotel every a as 81 the tel began driving to the stadium and began mounting the platform He uses psychology in his bl pro pro- gram Though Germans work hard and have little to show for It it the hu hazy promise of a greater Reich hangs hangl constantly before their eyes eye By girding his nation for war Der Fuehrer has reduced unemployment and busy people seldom complain especially when the worlds world greatest propaganda machine directs their thought and effort Lastly he uses psychology in selling selling sell seU ing his personality To Germany Adolf Hitler is a a man of mystery strong chinned giant who once told them You are mine and I am yours as II long as I shall live livel ti 0 Newspaper Union |