Hitler is “disliked and distrusted” by the individual Germans but idolized by the mass of people, according to Dr. Frederick B. Fisher, former Bishop of Calcutta, India, and present minister of the First M. E. Church at Ann Arbor, Mich., who was recently in Germany. He spoke at a meeting in the Boston City Club, under the auspices of the Boston Methodist Social Union.
“The aides of Hitler,” Dr. Fisher explained, “have told me that the Nazi leader had twenty bottles of perfume on his dressing table, that he was the vainest man in Germany, and that he flew into a rage during which he hurled chairs at visitors.” This concinced Dr. Fisher that Hitler was only an idol of the mass as a whole, “of a burdened and exasperated people seeking an outlet from poverty and repression.”
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