GERMANY: 990 Years To Go

The Reich which Adolf Hitler said would last a thousand years is ten years old this week. In one decade it has all but spanned a life's cycle, from depression's depths to a pinnacle of power on which it is now tottering. With 990 years to go, the Nazi Reich this week told its people: "We must keep cool. The situation is critical. We are facing an enemy superior in numbers, in everything. . . ."

Death of a Republic. On the evening of Jan. 30, 1933, the boots of the brown-clad Storm...

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