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Summing up the effects of Hitler’s year in power, Nazism: An Assault On Civilization, published by Harrison Smith and Robert Haas and written by twenty well known American and European authorities on Nazi Germany, paints an authoritative picture of the devastation wrought by the German National Socialist regime. The book goes on sale today.

Of particular importance is a chapter by Albert Brandt, which summarizes Nazi propaganda, espionage, and anti-American activities in the United States. He traces the development of Nazi organizations here from their beginnings to their present day proportions.

Prefaced by Senator Robert F. Wagner and with an introduction by James Waterman Wise, the book contains chapters by Dorothy Thompson, who reported the Nazi situation in Germany for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency; Stanley High, well-known editor and publicist, who describes Hitler’s war on religious freedom; Bernard S. Deutsch, on the disfranchisement of the Jew; Werner Hegemann, on the debasement of the professions; Alice Hamilton, on the enslavement of German women; I. A. Hirschmann, on the degradation of culture, and Ludwig Lore, on the fate of the German worker.

Other chapters are by the Rey. Dr. John Haynes’ Holmes, Ludwig Lewisohn, Max Winkler, Emil Lengyel, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Pierre van Paassen, Charles H. Tuttle, Miriam Beard, William Green, Samuel Guy Inman and Alfred E. Smith.