To celebrate “Hitler’s Year” and to pledge their efforts to the success of Nazi policies in the future, Germans throughout the country are meeting in monster demonstrations in celebration of the anniversary of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of the Third German Reich.
The German community, which has recently received a great deal of Hitlerite propaganda directly from Berlin over specially devised short wave sets, will be able to hear Hitler broadcast today over the National Broadcasting Company network. The chancellor will address the Reichstag on the occasion of the first anniversary of his rise to power.
Hitler will broadcast for one hour on his domestic and foreign policies, but only the last fifteen minutes of it will be carried to the United States, after which a fifteen-minute English summary will be broadcast from Berlin. He will be heard locally over WJZ between 9:45 and 10 a.m.
On Sunday night approximately 4,000 loyal Hitlerites celebrated the anniversary in the Central Opera House at 205 East 67th Street. Bristling with military fervor, the celebrants cheered the speeches of American and German lecturers, who extolled Hitler’s policies, while organizations of former German soldiers carried through a concert and military demonstration reminiscent of World War days.
FAMILIES ATTEND
Members of the League of Friends of New Germany were ordered to be on hand early with their wives and children, while others were invited to be present.
From six o’clock in the evening, the hour when the opera house was thrown open to Hitler’s supporters, until early in the morning, Nazis througed the main hall.
Representatives of the German
StahliU’lm fa veteran s organization comparable to tv American Legion), of the PDeutsche Legion, and the German National Commercial Benefit Association joined with the League of Friends oi* New Germany in celebrating (lie event.
The celebration attained its climax when the band, blaring forth the “Horst Wessel Lied”, “Die Strasse Frei”, and other Hitlerite marching songs, was followed in its march about the hall by former soldiers and present-day German-American storm troops. Flags, swastikas in profusion, were carried by the marchers throughout the auditorium while Hitler, was roundly heiled and saluted both by the marchers and onlookers.
CALLS PRESS LIAR
Among the speakers was Doug Brinkley, American radio broadcaster, who recently returned from Germany. He is now writing a scries of articles for the “Deutsche Zeitnng”, Hitlerite propaganda weekly published in New York. Mr, Brinkley described a number of improvements in Germany under the new chancellor and castigated press reports of the Third Reich as being based upon lies.
Fritz Gissibl, recently returned from a tour of the Middle West and East,, where he directed the coordination of a number of German-American groups with Hitlerite agencies, outlined plans for the institution of Nazi policies in the United States. “If we encounter opposition from people in this country, regardless of race, we shall crack them down!” the Nazi leader said.
SPANKNOEBEL’S SUCCESOR
Gissibl has been in full charge of American Nazi activities since the sudden departure four months ago of Heinz Spanknoebcl.
Besides Brinklcy and Gissibl, the list of speakers included Gruppen Ftihrer Walter of the New York branch of the Friends of New Germany, and Commandant Spier of the Deutsche Legion.
While all branches of the League of Friends of New Germany near: New York City sent their representatives to the celebration, in other cities similar festivities have been planned on a smaller scale.
In the Stcubeuhaus at Woodsidc, Long Island, the Friends of New Germany celebrated Hitler’s anniversary, Bundmeister William Meyer addressed the gathering in English and Fred Kruppa in .Germany, calling upon the attendants to do all in their power to strenthen Hitler’s support in the United States.
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