GERMANY: Hitler's Hitlers

A happy, happy man was Adolf Hitler last week. German newsreels pictured him in a French garden, receiving word of the French capitulation. The Führer snapped his fingers, kicked his heels, chortled and goose-stepped off to his office to contemplate the fact that Hitler-Europe had become an actuality.

Throughout the Reich other Nazi bigwigs celebrated. Prophet Alfred Rosenberg heralded the dawn of the "new social age." And Party Organizing Director Dr. Robert Ley was already turning out little Führers — that long-dreamed-of elite which Adolf Hitler expects to run (and enjoy the first fruits of) the Government and commerce of...

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