An attack on Adolf Hitler, National Socialist party leader, by Captain Ehrhardt, one of his chief lieutenants, in today’s Boersen Zeitung, created a sensation here. Ehrhardt’s vigorous attack on the Fascist chieftain has aroused particular interest not only because he was the military leader of the abortive Munich putsch but because his anti-Hitler stand marks a further split in the Nazis’ ranks and indicates that Hitler is losing some of his effective military support.
Ehrhardt describes Hitler as “an unscrupulous demagogue who bases his teachings on anti-Semitic and racial hatred while members of his own party are radically inferior. On the one hand Hitler preaches high morals and on the other he declares that if the Nazis demand morality then they will be unable to attain favor with the masses.”
Another attack on Hitler appears today in the Tageblatt, by Hans Lange, a police official. He says “the big-hearted Nazis leaders remained at home during the War, retaining their jobs, and left Ludwig Frank and other Jews to bleed and die.” Frank was a young Jewish leader of the Socialist youth in Germany and a member of the Reichstag who was killed in the War.
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