GERMANY: Back to the Axe!

Designing new costumes for himself is the delight of beefy Prussian Premier Captain Hermann Wilhelm Göring. The points of his brownshirt collar (and of his alone) are scarlet. As German Air Minister he affects a topcoat with unique and striking white lapels. He delights in the clucks and murmurs of the masses when he appears in a rakish wild-leder (doeskin) cloak, fastened at the neck with a single clasp. Last week he set the fashion in which Germans condemned to Death will be executed.

Conqueror Napoleon introduced the French guillotine into Prussia. Last...

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