almost exclusively on picked detachments of the elite guard (the S. S. men), state and secret police, and the Reichswehr, the regular army, which pledges first loyalty to von Hindenberg, to keep its own private army in check and to maintain order in general.
That the regime does not feel that the disorders are a result of discontent within the internal structure of the Nazi party is proven by the other drastic steps taken by it since Saturday.
The Hitler forces were ruling Germany today by exercise of a veritable reign of terror and summary execution for all hostile or likely to be hostile elements. Its victims included the widely respected General Kurt von Schleicher, once Chancellor of Germany, whose death on Saturday still remains unexplained, and Dr. Heinrich Klausner, leader of the “Catholic Action” party, who was slain in his office without reason.
END OF HITLERISM SEEN
General Goering declared, in announcing crushing of the “conspiracy,” that “the second Nazi revolution is over with Hitler more firmly in the saddle than ever.” It was felt here today that while the second Nazi revolution may be over, the general revolt against Hitlerism is now getting well under way and that the end is now most definitely in sight.
A large part of the London press today sharply attacks Hitler’s terroristic methods employed against his own supporters and expresses skepticism at the existence of the alleged “plot.”
The Laborite paper, the Daily Herald, editorally commenting on the “Naked Terror and Blood-Bath in Germany” declares that “Nazism is beginning to destroy itself.” The Liberal News-Chronicle compares Hitler’s actions over the week-end with the situation of the Reichstag fire and finds a resemblance in the story of the fire and the story of a “plot” after Hitler saw “his government imperilled by popular discontent, by economic and other distress in the country.”
In the opinion of several other newspapers, the Times, the Morning Post, the Manchester Guardian and others, Hitler has strengthened himself among the general population by reason of his elimination of such men as Roehm and Edmund Heines.
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