The goal of the Nazi Government, as described by Mr. Henri, is so definite as to make us wonder at the question mark in the title. This goal is nothing short of the inclusion of Middle Europe under the banner of the Swastika, with much adjoining territory appended. Under the “Rosenberg Plan,” which the author declares to be a policy of the Hitlerites, the Germanic Union would embrace the Baltic States and the Balkans, the Scandinavian countries and the Ukraine; and Holland, Belgium, Alsace, Switzerland, Austria, and Hungary would lose their identity in the vast empire.
This book is perhaps one of the most current exhaustive surveys of the Nazi revolution, because it takes into account the many powerful economic and psychological forces that catapulted Hitler into power. What it lacks in interesting narrative it makes up in data with regard to the relationships between Hitler and the financial interests in pre-Hitlerite Germany and the sacredness with which Hitler has regarded the capitalistic structure of Germany.
The author takes the liberty of looking somewhat ahead of Nazi accomplishments, anc. deducting from the trend of events as well as from some apparently substantial information, the manner in which the Hitlerization of the broad Central European belt will proceed.
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