-“Hitler-a Joan of Arc in Cromwell’s boots.”
This is Dr. J. Duncan Spaeth’s description of the German Chancellor. Dr. Spaeth, a Princeton professor, in an address before the local Kiwanis, told of the “idealism” of New Germany.
The savant said that Hitler was against the Jews, because “Jews are leaders of international socialism and international capitalism.”
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