| Show ANN ANNIVERSARY ANNIVERSARY- I V ERSA In Seven Years of Nazi Tactics Cement Hitler's Grip on Reich SEVEN SEVEN years yean ago this month on January 30 1933 Adolf Adoll Ii Hitler Wet 1 teas named chancellor o of 01 f Germany and began writing uniting the blood blood- stained history of oJ the Third Reich In 1930 already powerful ul ha lie scoffer scoffed when den old President von van offered him a cabinet post hitter Hitler wanted all or nothing t ri ril l J k b 4 J Handsome Adolf AdoU reviews re his troops In 1932 durin during the years he was making sensational gains In every ev- ev cry ery election Finally Hindenburg offered of of- him the but Hitler demanded too loo many conces conces- Old weary eary unto death deans capitulated In January 1933 and made Hitler chancellor They distrusted distrusted dis ills trusted each Irh other from tho the start starl Here litre they pose together at the nineteenth nineteenth nine nine- anniversary ot of Tannenberg battle I 3 T a t v rf t R rr nr tR 4 L s Events moved rapidly now A stooge named Marinus van der Lubbe huddled huddled hud bud Id d above was charged with the Communist Inspired Reichstag fire February 27 1933 after arler which all freedom of speech and press was suspended The next month littler Hitler got gol Reichstag stale seats In the election elec lion tion In quick succession came carne the Jewish boycott outlaw of labor unions unions un un- ions concentration camps and church persecution o Ills power secured through these his moves littler Hitler next purged purred ranks of traitors On June 30 1931 the world was startled when Capt Ernest Roehm once a closer Hitler Hiller associate and nd anywhere from 77 to several hundred other Nazis Nails were shot Next Ned littler Hitler turned to foreign affairs In January 1935 having resigned from the League of Nations he be called the 11 t d s. s H t J N Zt f 9 lot lotIn I In March 1936 1930 he be marched troops Into the Rhineland Then Theu came carne the construction of an anti antl foreign pact with Italy whose II 11 Duce Benito Mussolini shown above with littler Hitler seemed to 10 have Ideas closely paralleling those of Der Fuehrer Soon Japan joined the anti anti antl pact and littler Hitler felt secure So much In fact that thai In March 1938 be he suddenly took possession of Austria and thus began the violent program of territorial seizure that led to war last September 4 a s f rr E One Oae by one ne great men called on him trying to make peace Britain's Prime Minister Chamberlain above made three trips climaxing In the Munich agreement under which Su- Su went to Germany But still the appetite grew In to March 1939 Germany seized Slova Czecho a week ek later Memel Hitler was getting closer doser and closer to the Russian juggernaut and It was Inevitable inevitable that they should hould meet a maa They did did signing a treaty on August 23 23 1939 Seven days day later Hitler's armies Invaded Poland oland for the lightning lightning light ning war In la which Russia joined a couple of Jf weeks later In 30 days day Poland was no more but meanwhile mean France and Britain Poland's Polands allies had declared war against the Nazis Nails Thus Is brought up to date dale where will U It go ro from here On Onto Onto Onto to new conquests or down to a abu abu- humiliating hu hu- defeat ff 9 f I hitter Hitler entering Vienna in March Marcil 1938 See arrow arrou |
