“The new Hitler is flesh and blood of the old Hindenburg,” declares Frank Bohn, political commentator, in the current issue of Today. He says that although these two were superficially different, as soon as the essential factors of history behind them are seen, the similarity becomes evident.
“The Hindenburgs bred, as cannon fodder, an over-populated nation—65,000,000 on 208,000 square miles of territory, Now that these 65,000,000 starvelings occupy only 182,000 square miles, the Hitlers will go on the job,” Bohn writes.
“If the Hindenburgs as a class had really opposed Hitler, he could have never come to power. Hindenburg, to the last, represented the Germany of arrested development, the old and stultified political mind of Bismarck and the Kaisers. He accepted the Republic because nothing else, at that time, was possible.”
“Some of us are not so hopeful as are the younger folk of an early change in Germany,” the writer concludes.
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