The greatest show of human antics on earth takes place at Nürnberg, the grey-walled medieval city which up-to-date Nazis have made the busy world hub of antiSemitism. Annually it is swamped by some 1,500,000 Germans, bursting with health, who arrive in high good humor for their yearly emotional spree, the Parteitag. Announced as Adolf Hitler's "honor guests" this week in Nürnberg were 100 certified Jew-baiting Arabs brought especially from Palestine and Africa, and Frau Mathilde Ludendorff, widow of the great German Wartime strategist. Today she zealously crusades for her own unique doc trine: "The priests of Tibet are gradually conquering the world. Our German people must resist the temptations of these rulers of the Roof of the World whose aim is to make the Germans their slaves."
There is no evidence that Herr Hitler thinks Frau Ludendorff an eccentric and she thinks "Germany is Paradise." So does potent Dr. Robert Ley, leader of the Labor Front into which 20,500,000 Ger man workers have been mustered. Keynoted Orator Ley last week as 1,500,000 Nazis began heading toward the Parteitag: "If there is a Paradise, I feel sure it cannot be more beautiful than National Socialist Germany! . . . There are persons who preach to a snickering audience that: 'Faith moves Mountains.' This is said to have happened 2,000 years ago. Now National Socialism has moved a whole nation! . . . Our life is one of work and joy, and Germany is not a vale of tears." Getting down to cases and European fears last week of another world war (see p. 29), the Labor Front's Ley declared: "Cabinet councils in London and Paris realize that the Fuhrer does not leave anything to chance as Wilhelm II did. If in 1910, 1911 or 1912 the Kaiser had acted like Hitler and not let things slide, the Great War would never have come or Germany would have won it.
"Today we have once more the best and strongest army in the world. . . . Geneva no longer exists! . . . Germany is again the centre of the world." Nürnberg this week is again the centre of Germany. Each year the swarms of arriving Germans are solemnly given by the Nazi Party, for the better ordering of their emotions, a "Theme." In 1933 the first Parteitag Theme was VICTORY. Next year it was WILL, then FREEDOM, next HONOR and last year LABOR. This week the Theme for Herr Hitler, Frau Ludendorff and all other Germans is GROSSDEUTCHER REICH (Greater Germany).
In the city proper of Nürnberg (see map) are the Deutscher Hof (hotel of the Führer), the Grand (hotel of the guests of the Fuhrer); ancient Nürnberg Castle, where most-friendly journalists are entertained; the Rathaus, where the Dictator was greeted as usual this week when he entered Nürnberg; and Adolf Hitler Square, the big marketplace back of the Liebfrauenkirche across which unending rivers of uniformed Germans were to march hour after hour past the Führer.