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In Goring's suite was the Saar's new Nazi governor, Josef Burckel. His gem to Danzig voters: "If the Marxists say Germany has brought in professional murderers, I say that German mothers ar happy that their sons are being taught to keep their mouths shut, and it is the pride of German fathers to say 'My son fought, too"
All the way from Nurnberg came Germany's No. 1 Jew-baiter Julius Streicher stopping last week in Berlin to lead ar anti-Semitic parade with brass bands down Unter den Linden. His gem: "After this election Danzig will know what to with your — Jews! . . . The Leader, as we all know, promised the Poles not to touch the Corridor for ten years, and he will keep his word as usual, but the hour will still come!"
Youthful, grey-eyed Rudolph Hess, vice leader of the Nazi Party in Germany, was hailed in Danzig as speaking for the Realmleader. "Elsewhere parliaments are making efforts that are futile—they need an Adolf Hitler!" cried Herr Hess. "They have tried to master unemployment in the United States, but for practical results they cannot compare with us! . . . Germany was like an animal unprotected by game laws, but Adolf Hitler has taken away from other countries their appetite for attacking Germany.
"The German program is a program of faith in the mission of the entire German race ! Danzig is an outpost of Germanism. Do you want to co-ordinate yourself with home, with Germany?"
Honor Uber Alles! Glorying in Adolf Hitler's violation of the Treaty of Versailles to rearm, Nazi Hess cried some moments later, with head thrown back and eyes shining: "Nonobservance of a treaty is a breach of Honor, and Germany today puts its Honor above everything else!" *
To deliver Nazidom's final electioneering blow in Danzig last week came the master mob orator who at times surpasses even Adolf Hitler, Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment. Goebbels' gems:
¶ "Years of humiliation are now finished. Years in which Germany will arise to new power and greatness are ahead. We have broken the Treaty of Versailles, Ja! We have torn off our shackles on the principle that 'Whoever has the power gets the rights!'"
¶ "We have had luck, but we have deserved it! We have helped ourselves, and so Heaven has helped us. ... We are more truly religious than those who make it appear that God is their partisan. . . . We have swept the Jews out of public life in Germany and cleansed the Fatherland of the stench of Marxist corruption!"
¶ "As it was in the Saar so it will be in Danzig. . . . Scorn the carping of whoever says The Leader has embarked on catastrophic policies! . . .Whoever throws the dice for high stakes must risk something. As Nietzsche said 'One must have the courage to live dangerously!' "
"Full of Treason.' As Danzig's intensive course in Hitlerism closed this week Danzigers voted in record numbers. As returns came in Danzig officials, mostly Nazis, became highly excited, put through repeated long distance calls to Berlin, kept Danzig in the dark all night.