One of the most severe arraignments of Hitler so far published in this predominantly German city has just appeared in the Milwaukee Journal.
“Adolf Hitler, the Austrian adventurer, has just completed his revolution in Germany, or rather the death of Hindenburg has completed it for him.” the editorial declares. “The Presidency is no more, the Weimar constitution is gone, the free choice of the people for anything they might desire is put in Nazi cold storage. The subjugation of the nation to one leader and one party is now absolute.”
The Journal goes on to say that “we have yet to find, historically, as large a dose of demagoguery offered to a nation as Hitler expects Germany to swallow.
“Hitler pretends to venerate Hindenburg, the leader and patriot, but at the same time destroys all that Hindenburg, the Constitutional head, stood for.
“Hitler fixes it so there can be no possible alternative to his policies and then announces all power flows from the people and orders them to participate in a ‘free election.’
“What can the true German do about it? Nothing.”
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