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I I I I I A PA. Hitl I- Two IVIistakes Result in Defeat in Three Yrars Bf B. BURTON HEATH NEA Staff Writer In 10 years, to the exact day, Adolf Hitler, and double- crossed-his way from the Austro- fermaa equivalent ol a Bowery bum to dictator over one of the World's great nations. Oa Aug. 2, 1914, when World ffar I swrted, was In the sqjalor and which the complete lack of any, rconstructive talent had brought him.

coffiplefe tor of rhe good his presumption. had boasted that history will, remember him long after it lias forgotten all his predecessors. Probably that is true. It will recall him as an egotist who raised nobody in the" world's history ever achieved. Alois Hitler, illegitimately born Schicklegtuber but legitimatized by one George Heidler, described lis son, as "good for noth- -The description was apt from day of his birth, April 20,,.1889, to-the outbreak of the first World War.

Adolf Hitler, born sort of flop house, from 1907 to 1913. His fellow roomers gave him crusts of bread and bits of horse which he supplemented, at a free soup kitchen. He earned a little doing the sort of pseudo art work, carrying bags' for travelers, and for part-of" a day snow on -Danube bridge. In Muiuclf, where he continued his low life until the Germans marched on France. His -war service was ordinary.

He won the Iron Cross twice, was wounded twice and gassed once. The huskiness that underlies his shrill tones is a permanent effect ft that gass- sters 'activities, did it once more, Storm arrested Hitler swept ti.ow. On Mafch 23, less months after he entered cellery, a rubber stamp ffiade Hitler dictator over In June, 1934. ne Roehm to give the S.A. furlough, after which he political the elec- than twt) the chan- Reichstag Germany.

persuaded a month's promised to incorporate the S.A. into the Reichswehr as soon as sick Pi cadent Hindenburg should die. Their ample guard at the beer hall Hitler and Goebbels, with a picked -did nothing, though it outnumbered S.S. group, killed Roehrn and moat he S.A. contingent It was only of his closest friends while Goering, eneral von, Seekt's orders to the back in Berlin, purged other ene- Reichswehr, after the conspirators mies and settled a few personal thought they had won, that put an grudges with the-pistot "and the end to the coup and sent Hitler to headsman's help.

prison. By 1938, Hitler felt strong enough Throughout this periodi t( violate the Locarno Pact by Gener al Ludendarff was usedVa tool by rising Austrain gang him on the the time came for the AHH? never would chief. Hitler theory that, when 1923 to "1933 was in Into the Rhineland. Commanding officers carried sealed orders wbjehfif the French had objeeteC-wTth show of. Corporml Adolf (1919) future that he resigned from the ing.

Doable-Crossed Army He got into politics by double- crossing the first employer who evar made him happy, the German Army. signed In July, 1919, he was as- by the Propaganda ane Espionage division, which used him ES a snoupei, to observe a "meeting" of the German Workers' Party cunsioting of iix men devoted to pan-Germanism and certain quasi socialistic dogma. He joined them on the spot, and thereafter com bined politics with his "military' duties. Hitler never was able to earn an honest living by conventional con methods. But he did have the German people wanted at that moment.

His platform of pan-' Germanism, anti-Versaillesism, anti- Semitism, appealed to enough per- tons to convince him that politics his forte. In April of 1920 the Army Underground came-'the foundation for another of pervert named Ernest Roehm fad raised a large secret army. Hitler, through Khoem's friend, the newspaperman Dietrich Eckart (one of the six original party members-- was -ihade public those of Both ported 'By 1 contributions fjem' big industrialists who wejjfr-v'ery about their interest Thijr'ap- Hitler's opposition, to the Tfceaty cf Versailles, desire to gather all Germans of the world into a greater Germany, his anti- Communism. Like him, they hated the Republic and the Social Democratic party. Pro-Nad Jankers And finally, among "the factors which made the Nazis strong even- when they were paved the way for crossing, there was-tne military caste.

The thought they were using Hitler to promote their own-tends and woke tod ate to discover that Hitler had done the using The stern the Allies attempted against the 'defeated German Army caused great But and Mussolini created the Berlin. on 1937.. Japan Germany and' Italy retire "anti-Comintern pact in No- fember. Grab Austrian Chancellor Kurt yon Schuschnigg was summoned to" Berchtesgaden on Feb. 1V'1'938.

Hitler demanded more-'Nazi participation" in the Austrian government. The Austrian chancellor agreed to--accept five Nazis. Dis- man. When the Allies forced that Army underground Hitler adopted it.as the Gytnrwtics and Sports vision of tHe "Nazi party. An ex-military flier man Goering, le, and joined th Her- money A year later he was put in command of Roehm's army, the brown-shirted S.A.

Nor was that all that Roehm contributed to Hitler's In 1923 and other strong-arm groups held a Congress of some persons in Nuremberg and formed a German Combat Union. Roehm maneuvered 'so that within a Hitler, who had wangled dictatorship xver the numerically small Nazi "JRrty, became political head of the whole combat union. On May Day, 1939, Hitler's S.A. men stole weapons from the Reichs- wehr barracks, undeterred because Roehm had arranged that the guards would not resist. And in November, 600 S.A.

men kidnapped the entire government of Bavaril in ths celebrated beer hall putsch, Hitler In Prison Here, again, double-crossing was h.iJUiip\^rV"large crass of young majori down, -who doors to promotion closed to them forever. They-Were glad to give any sort from, votes to in support- of anJi-Ver- sallies program that Hitler was pushing. Industrialists' money, militarists' assistance, pulled Hitler through one tight spot after another until, in 1932, the conservative von Papen felt obliged to offer him which he left-Munich to snly to be brought back by Goering and Goebbels nick of time. The advice of those two lieutenants, to hold out for all or nothing, proved wise. On Jan.

3U, senile President von Hindenburg asked Hitler, as chancellor, to form a new government, Dissolves Reichstag The day after he became chancellor Hitler dissolved the Reichstag and set March 5 for new elections. On Feb. 27 the Reichstag buildings burned. It is commonly believed that the fire was the Nazis. But the arson was the order of the occasion.

Wilhelm blamed on Communists and was iFrick, official who on previous oc-i used by Hitler as an excuse to get party had only 30 members, but casions had ordered his police to from old man Hindenburg a decree Hitler was so optimistic about close their eyes to Hitler's gang-1suspending all the basic freedoms. Ch-nceUor Hitler (1934) orders instigated by the ta- all hope of support her powesful Czechoslovakia gave in and the next day German troops he In each- of thesjMSteps by which was incorporated creased, and one members forced of the cabinel by Hitler on Schuschnigg asked Hitler to protect the Austrian government. Ger man troops marched into Austria in Mafch-- and that nation was annexed to the Reich, Neither France nor Englanc the way Hitler was stepping out. But he got Chamberlain am Daladier together with Mussolin and himself at Munich, and on Sept 30 the. Anglo-French tors signed a pact authorizing Hit ler to take Sudetenland.

which he could no longer with- 4raw. More Territory In April he took over Dfnmprk and Norway--again with Fifth Column assistance. In May he invaded Belgium, Holland and embourg without the pr.et*n«» of reason except that they lay In his way, June. Paris fell, 17 Detain, asked for an jknfUrah'ce, and June 26 hostilities ceased. The British evacuated their men from Dunkirk and left their Mussolini, who came into war just as France was puny to eapTtulate, polished of North Africa fop the Axis, but 1-came to grief- when he tried to little Greece near the end 1940.

Apiil, 1941, HiUer Intervened In the Balkans. His forces knocked off Jugoslavia with almost incredi- DIC, 3 littleTMnation, took Crejlt-from the air in a completely-novel type of i North Reich, Hitler double- nation concernedjjhe Anglo-French allies and the world campaign, Africa -ffiucti of what the lad lost to the British. Then Hitler made a second great mistake. (Tfcer by general consejwjus, was putting off "too long thlTinvasion of Great Britain.) He pulled another double-cross-- jme on Stalin, AtUete on the morning oJ at large. In each he-used the Column- technique, having- and within countries to tte way tor his signed nprr pact with Poland in 1934C sanctity and inftpor- this had reaffirmed publicly Jan.

30, 1939. But -what was a satiud tuaty. more territory? Hated His entire rise had been financed and made possible by those who, more than anything else, hated Communism and all its works. But for his "unalterable" intention to exterminate Communism, Hitler probably would still be copying scenic postcards for a hand-to- mouth living in Munich. Neveitheless, on Aug.

23, -1939 he signed a non-aggression pact with Stalin, tfwo days later Poland seeing the writing on the wall, concluded a alliancejnth Great Britain. One week thereafter to the day, German planes began bombing. Polish cities and German crossed the frontier. Everything went according to plan. Russia stepped in the back door Sept.

17, Hitler and Stalin divided Poland between-them the next day. and by Sept. .29 Poland as a nation no longer existed. But Hitler had driven England and Franci top far. They had declared war.

Too weak reaHy to help Poland, they stalled-along behind the Maginot Line while Hitler digested Poland and prepared for the nert step in the gamble from Jarre" J22; "German troops crossedhe divfaing line- in Poland attacked, Russia an 1800-mile front from Finland to the Black In deep theught Wazi progress wai ImprMstv that in October Hitler was able announce that was beginnin tteiMe. be. considered, to- of the 'thread Hitler- ha: everybody including the would have ing himself tatcrr. On the (J hadn't double-, i and the be sitting powerful figure in tae Jy and pot Darl an Brief P. By ASSOCIATED Adml.

Jean' n.ch but Adolf Hitler's failure ill, dream giflccideajjal worti-eon- qust, after coming go close, pan be attributed to fundamental miscalculations. First, he underestimated tlwrbull- dog courage of Second, he underestimated tot military and economic might of Soviet Russia and the willingness and ability of to absorb punishment jfdf he underestimated the -rapidity and intelligence with whiqh the United States could arm herself arid the anti-Nazi wprld -from a standing; start, and this nation's willingness to make common with Great jn, Kid were using. to Advance the.i*-o.wnrcause, began aS'early as wonder jBhrther' they really ttyu-fesf eating the-chlcken- gobbled- They by that time they far to back out BuJHit no time sinpr 1933 had complete-Bar- nevertheless sr switch, French 'to Allied ordering all i African invasion, ic his fleet others were scuiiltd to mans. He was by aa Christmas" Eve. ii.

afr a a his j. Vheih. was Absiie-Broadcas! 1n Many By ASSOjSiff 8' rEESS the final drive of the war--the attack on Moscow. By Dec. 14 Moscow had been under siege for two months, and only optimists even hoped that the Reds could survive.

Dec. 15 the German invaders began to withdraw. Tor. those who prefer to take the more-pessimistic viewpoint, and assume that Britain could have been defeated--If Bussia had not been invaded notwithstanding Hitler's strange failure to the channel in 1939, Dec. 15, .1941, marks the last day that Hitler's mony--ljetween Hitlerf If the Geiiuan'defeat was to be halted while there still remained some lemblance of military might in the Reich upon which to begin building for another in the long series of German attempts at continental domination, then Hitler had to be ousted and negotiations for capitulation had to be handled by the generals.

The exact course of events, from the time the generals' cabal took form could have followed any of several courses. It may be long before we know in detail, with much accuracy, exactly i course it did follow. There was never any question, that the complete downfall 6f Adolf Hitler and all his Nazi gang was an important element in the internal readjustment that had to be made. Threw! of Double-Crosg So the final outcome continued the -4hread that mote than any Trans throughout the story wegian, Absie Station programs cial it and regular ing dressed many to the Europe. May of 1940 i est i A i Up the -Is Dutch 'days and through Channel as ered his en', re B.

kerque was hp ation of 400.onn Japan mnde kr. in September, the Axis a ii Berlin. Lightning fl most every i of the Dutch f.u\ sht I. 1 htrd ihell of Nail Europt hat itl Mid tht of fo.lL i prom 1 that all tin world vriH day eh- of battU'i tiuokt and anguitl May Cod The Holmes Silk Company I'OKISMANSHI i Japanese Yes, they are sportsmen, those sons of Nippon, but it's a different brand of sportsmanship than any we've ever known. They have delighted in shooting and torturing defenseless people their code is to kill, their will is to conquer, We resolve never to xfop fight untU the barbaric ese are subdued again.

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