GERMANY: Little Man, Big Doings

Once a year quaint medieval Nürnberg finds its population tripled by the marching, seething squash of Adolf Hitler's Party Congress. Last week on Adolf Hitler Platz as 800,000 pairs of German boots came pounding in, one canny shopkeeper was swamped with business beneath his sign "Are your feet tired? Try our special powder."

This excited no more comment than the selling of rosaries opposite St. Peter's. Tired feet are part of the Nazi saga of sacrifice. In Nürnberg all neutral observers noted last week the air of respect...

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