The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, February 26, 1937, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6
Hitler Referees A
Dangerous Race
Adolf Hitler, potentially. In one of
the moHt dangerous men on earth.
I to commands a peace-time artny of
1.000,000 men, the second largest In
the world He rules 60,000,000 Gertnan.s
with an absolutism that even
Hirohlto, deified gmporor of 90,000,000
Japanese, cannot rival. Hitler is
both President and Prime Minister of
the Reich. As Der Fuehrer?"The
1 soider"?he heads every civil, Judiaial
and military function of the nation.
A single nod of his head might
plunge ICurope into war.
All this Is the fantastic dream that
came true la the beginning it was
Hitler's father who was ambitious.
The illegitimate son of an Austrian
peasant girl. Alois Hitler began bis
career as a cobbler and wound up as (
a fairly well-to-do minor customs ofli(
iaI
On April 110, JSK9, at Mruunau, Aits11
ia. his third wife ho re him his fifth
? hihi, a hoy who ' was christened
Adult. My the 11 tile the child w as
ready to go to school. (In* family ittid
settled in I.in/., in I'pper Austria
\Iois inlil his son to study hard, so
that some day In*, too. might become
an honored sei\ant of Kmperor Franz
Josef. Adolf would have none of It.
A good purl of the lime he played
truant
At home he read popular histories
of Alexander the Great, Charlemagne
and .Julius Caeaar, or Hpent his night
hours drawing by lamplight?"waisting
good oil," lias father grumbled.
When Adolf wua 12, 1)in father died.
The boy never was graduated from
elementary school, and spent live
years after his father's death as the
idle, spoiled pet of his devoted mother,
Klara I'ool/l Hitler.
Finally, when he was 18, Adolf
stirred himself. With a packet of
drawings under his arm and $15 in his
pocket, went to Vienna. First at the
Academy School of Art. and then at
the Architectural School, he was dented
admittance.
These two snubs were succeeded by
tragic news from home. Klara Hitler
was dead. Adolf, who had been ardently
devoted to his mother, was
stranded in the Austrian capital without
funds. For the next three years
his home was a flop-house, a one-room
dormitory crowded with steel-mattressed
beds. lie earned a meager
existence as a hod-carrier arid factory
assistant
Wlu rever he went, Hitler saw Jews,
"and the more 1 saw. the more clearly
did I perceive how apart they were
from the rest of humanity."
In the Austrian capital. Ilithr began
to hate not only the Jews, but the
whole racial hodge-podge of Czechs,
Magyars, ituthenians and Serbians
that made up the polyglot Hapsburg
empire.
For the first time, ho begun to
dn-am of a mighty country, composed
of out; race only?the htonae, bluoeycd
Germans. At night, black-haired,
grey-eyed Adolf Hitler began visiting
beer taverns and talking vaguely of
the party he would some clay found.
Two years before the war, Hitler
moved across the Austrian border to
the German city of Munich, where he
earned a fairly comfortable living as
house-painter and limner of picture*
; i...". .it els.
War came in IP 11. in spite of his
Austrian < iti/a nship, Hitler c-ag.-rly
v < >1 u a c Mild WrtS Uceeptetl as aj
i! : n! ? r ... tie Bavarian i south German!
army lie >ei ved as a messagei'
r. ..ml was at no time in lle-j
'' hi 11 m su periors n? ver ad j
\aiic?d I.im 1.1 >.md the rank of lame'
i ei per.i!, ciie step above a private.
Ildlei ecu rci d ! loin the war with
a ..imh; wound tro:n an ? xplodiug 1
-h< . 1. a ml a d iur;i;i,ni. the 1 roil C ross, |
F'l i f' 1.is- Hi-. own story,-that he
u"'. it tor the single-handed capture
"I tift'ol) i'l'iull llielt, lliis 11' ver been
\ i nlii d
Gii the e\ i' of the Armistice, the
Kai>er IP d A German republic was
*et up under the socialist Friedrtch '
I'll" rt The country teemed with bundled-,
oj small groups, seme violently
i "i.imunist, seine reactionary.
A> a spy fur the reactionary army.
Iii:ii i wa-c under orders to discover
a polite al party which soldiers and
< x >o.Ui' is could use to further their
own etuis destruction of the peace
lie.dies and possible restoration of
the monarchy.
In BMP. Hitler became Committee
Mouther .No. 7 of the tlu-uiaii German
Workers' party. He was made "drummer."
or chief propagandist of the
mo\emont Gaunt, and with a now
forgotten pointed beard, he bcreauiod
himself hoarse against the humiliating
punt war treaties In uh many us
fourteen speeches a day.
Soon the army wan convinced of the
party h reliability. Soldiers and ex
ho hi tern swelled tin* party's ranks, and
the organization name una changed
to The National Socialist (Nazi) Gorman
Workers' party.
Hitler, us the most conspicuous fig
ure of the movement, became Its Iteud
Money poured In from expatriate Germans,
who dreamed of the day when
the Fatherland would once more be
the equul of other nations. Other
funds came from capitalists, who feared
tire growing power of the Communists
("apt. Krnst Koehm, afterward for
many years Hitler's best friend, began
to organize tint Storm Troops,
recruited from the unemployed and
armed by Industrialists. Filled out
with pistols, bludgeons and kniterings,
Koehin's forces brawled in the
streets with Jews and Communists
By 1 93 1 the number of casualties oil
hot.li sides had risen to as high us
15,000 a year.
In November, 1023, Hitler was
ready for his first utfeQtnpt on the life
ot the German republic, lie headed
a revolution of Storm Troops in
Munich. The revolution was crushed
by the lo<ul police after one day and
Hitler fled, leaving behind him sixteen
dead comrades.
Finally captured, he was sentenced
by a pro-Nazi court in April of 1934
to servo five years In the comfortable
model prison of f^andsborg. Jailed,
Hitler penned laboriously at his political
and philosophical autobiography,
"My Struggle" ("Meon Kampf").
Written in more than 800 pages of
script, it was later to sell over 1,000,000
copies, and to serve as the Bible
of the nationalist, pro-German, antiFrench,
anti-Russian, anti-Jewish, anti-Deinocratic
Nazi party.
Out of jail nine months later. Hitler
despaired. In his cell he had told
frequent visitors: "It will take me
live years to get things going again."
Opportunity, indeed, arrived just
live years later. 111 1930, the whole
world tumbled into an economic
abyss. Germany's internal structure,
weakened by reparations payments,
was in a state of near collapse. To
keep the n-'pyblic alive, Chancellor
Unletting was forced to adopt socialistic
measures. There was talk oi a
division of landed estates. Property
owners, big industrialists and small
lanners alike, became fearful.
Nazis did all in their power to prolit
by tli?; difficulties confronting the
government. Financed by arms-makers
as well as by othyrs, Hitler furiously
attacked "weak democracy,"
reparations and the Jews. The latter,
whom he attacked with almost irrational
anger, he blamed with responsibility
for all of Germany's troubles.
Above everything, he promised to protect
property and to win back Germany's
place in the sun.
Street fighting went on. Nazi
pamphlets and broadsides were distributed
by the ton. Organizing and '
propaganda for the party cost an estimated
$8,000 a day. Hitler, a genius <
in the held of demagogic oratory,
spoke everywhere. To millions of bewildered
Germans, he seemed the personification
of the abused German
people --"The Little Man."
Finally, the Nazis won a great vie-*
lory in the 11? ii listag elections of 1932.
On January 20. 1922. four years ago ,
thN week. President Paul von Hind* nburg
made Hitler Prime .Minister of
t he lleii it.
For the Nazi leader it was a dn am'
1 Otio- true. For bis enemies, it was
'he !> -.-inning of a nightmare. (>n
M't'ii L 1'1 -, a docile, parliament voted
11 it i e r ;i> dictator of the "reI'tibLi
I'- neural i< forms of governnr nt
wit i:ored and died. Jews were hounded
at e\e.r> turn. Youths in Germany
were taken from the school room to
th?? military training camp.
Then, in 1934, the 2.500.d,V-man
Storm I roop became too powertul.
threatening the army itself. Hitler,
tin one-time Reiehswehr spy, decided
quickly. On June 30, murder by ins
command raged through Germany.
I.rn>t Koehm, leader of the Storm
Troopi rs. was routed out of bed at
'? a. m. and shot, not improbably by
Hitler himself. Der Fuehrer had been
be.-t man at Koehin's wedding scarcely
six weeks before.
And so it went. Brutality followed
brutality in the "blood purge." In the
end. exeiutions prevailed on a larger
scale than Hitler himself had cither
dreamed of or intended When the
massacre was over, more than 2,0
were dead, some shot^^Bmo chopped
to death with axes.
After his friend Krnst Koehm died,
there was no one in all the world to
call Hitler "Adolf." To this da}. even
his highest lieutenants never address
him as anything but "Herr Chancellor"
or "My Leaded*
Hitler exists today as a supreme
contradiction. The leader and Idol of
millions of Germans, he is a man
without friends.
The supreme exponent of nationalism,
ho was a man without a country
from the time of the Munich revolt J
In 15123, when his Oerinau cltizeuablp
\s us revoked, until 1932. when he automatically
became a German by accepting
a Hinall post In the govethineiit
of Bavaria (
Holder of one of the biggest Jobs
in the world, he Heldoin begins work
before lu o'clock, and works only four
da>8 a week When occasion demands
he works for 12 or 1* hours at a
?tretch, but auch effort* leuve him
exhauated for daya afterward/
Horn a Catholic, he la at the head
of u party that favors a new form
of pugunism. ^
In a land flowing with beer, he
touchea no liquor. Ho Uvea In seeming
almpllclty, doea not amoke and
eata practically no meat.
ilia amusements are few. IJefore
he became dictator, ho went to as
many us two ot* even three moving
pictures a day. Now he goes but little
less often.
He needs music "like a drug." lie
has been known to interrupt even thei
mibl important cabinet sessions to attend
the opera or a musical comedy, j
Although he was definitely a "lady's
man" before 1923, he is seldom seen
with women. Most of ilia biographers
attribute his bachelorhood to the
fact that he has come to devote all
his energies' to the revlvflcation of
Germany. Konrad Ilelden, a German
journalist, holds that Hitler practices
celibacy simply becuuse ho cannot
make any woman love him, in spits
of his great prestige. John Gunther,
a veteran American foreign correspondent,
assorts that Hitler's undoubtedly
tremendous affection for his
mother left him cold to other women.
Despite his scientifically ridiculous
racial theories and his infamous Jewbaiting,
Hitlers claims to fame are
many. He has restored the German
people to a place of equality among
nations. One by one, he has repudiated
the clauses of humiliating postwar
treaties. Aided and abetted by
German munitions interests, he has
created a first-class army. He has
reduced unemployment in Germany
from 0,000,000 to 1,000,U00. As ail organizer
and propagandist lie probably
has no equal anywhere in the world.
Hut the cost has been terrific. He
lias alienated all democratic European
countries. Perhaps even Mussolini,
his ally, does not trust him. At
home, the German people aro undergoing
tremendous sacrifices to maintain
Germany's gigantic army budget.
Food is notoriously scarce. Taxes
are high, and getting higher.
Foreign correspondents assert that
Hitler is refereeing a dangerous race
between rebellion at home and the
only thing tliat will forestall it?war
with some foreign power. Which will
win? Hitler says: "There will be no
revolution in Germany in the next
l,0oo years."?The Pathfinder.
DeKALB NEWS NOTES
Westville, Feb. 25.?Rev. Grover C.
Robinson, of Kershaw, conducted
morning services at Bethany Sunday.
Cyril B. Busbpe Is spending this
week in Now Orleans, Igi., attending
a meeting of the National Superintendent's
association.
Mrs. Cyril B. Busbee and little
daughter. Carolyn, are visiting relatives
in Homerville, Ga.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Cole and daughter.
of Kershaw, were visitors Sunday
afternoon of Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Thomas.
Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Truesdale. of
Iloykin, visited Mr. and Mrs. Sam C.
Truesdale Sunday.
Miss Minnie Hodges spent, the week
end at her home in Marion.
Mr. and Mrs. \V. R McCain and
little daughter. Jean, of Waxhaw, X.
C.. w en--guests of Mr. and Mrs. 1,. D.
Broi'ttii . Sunday .
Mr and Mrs C IT Ogburn and
children visited Mr and Mrs. 1.. I'.
Ogburn. near Kidgeway, Sunday.
-Mr. and Mrs. Charles MeCaskill,
Charles Mifashtil. Jr.. Clara and Marguerite
MeCaskill. of Litchfield, Conn.,
visited relatives here last week. Clara
Rush returned home with them, having
spent the past several weeks as
their guests.
Miss Ida Roberts, a leather in the
Columbia city schools, spent Friday
night :is the guest of her sister. Mrs.
J. H Civ burn and Mr Civ burn
Square dancing whs enjoyed at the
4-11 club house Friday night.
Mrs. N. 15 Workman and son. Boyd,
were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Nye
Workman, Sunday.
Sam C. I ruesdale and son. Sain,
Jr. attended the boxing match at the
Armory in Camden Friday night.
Misses Llla Dane and Lola Halle
Hilton, of Camden, spent Sunday with
their parents. Mr and Mrs. J. C. Hilton.
Sr.
Rose Yvonne and Charles Arant,
who are spending tin winter with
their grandmother. Mrs. S C Rose,
spent thi" week end with tto ir mother.
Mrs. Juatiita R. Arant. in Page*
land
C. L Ogburn and Carl Owens attended
a tractor school and dinner
sponsored by the JpfT Hunt Road Machinery
company, in Columbia, Saturday.
Billy Civ but n spent the week otul
with his grandfather. W L. Roberts,
in Kershaw.
Defiant Catholics, angered by the
police slaying of a girl, 14. worshipper
in a church, took possession of the
churches of Vera Cruz, Mexico, Wednesday
and defied the police and the
government to put them out, and
made demand ^or the repeal of antichurch
laws, l he church bells wore
tolled Tuesday evening for the first
time in ten years.
?
YELLOW FEVER HERO DIES
AT HIS SANDY RUN HOME
One of the real heroes of America?
a man who risked his life in the quiet
of a Cuban camp that the world might
be set free from yellow fever?died'
at his home in the Sandy Run section'
of Calhoun county Vriday night. He (
was Charles G. Sonntag, a member.
of that brave band of men who vol* i
unteered, under the leadership of Dr.
Walter Reed, to submit themselves to
the bite of infectious mosquitos to find
the one that bore the yellow fever
germ. Some did not survive the test, J
but Mr. Sonntag, though he became
severely ill with the dread disease,;
finally recovered and lived to see his
government award to him a special
medal commemorative of his service
beyond the call of dflty.
Monday, he will be buried in Arlington
with full military honors.
Sixty-four at the time of his death,
Mr. Sonntag was in his 2U"s when he
and others of the Reed group underwent
their ordeal. Without the flare
of trumpets, without the roar of cannon
and without the urge of self
preservation he quietly went into a
screened tent and waited for tho tnos-'
quitos to bite, knowing that it meant
almost certain death. Ho was willing
to die that others might live, and
thousands and thousands have beenj
through the conquering of yellow,!
fever, made possible by the noble experiment
which Mr. Sonntag survived.
rnassuming, Mr. Sonntag went
through life in the same quiet way'
in which he had calmly made the test
in Cuba.
The Walter Reed hospital in Washington
was named for the leader, but
it Look many years for the govern-ment
to show its appreciation of the
heroism of the private members ot
the party, Not so long-ago-?since
19X0?a special medal was struck and
presented with proper ceremonies to
those few still alive. It was posthumously
awarded to others of the
group. A pension, however, had bees
previously voted.
For'years, Mr. Sonntag had farmed
in the Sandy Run section. He waai
member of the medical corps of the
army when he had volunteered alter
the Spanish-American war for the yellow
lever research experiment.
Mr. Sonntag is survived by bli
widow, Mrs. Hattio Pou Sonntag o(
Sandy Run; one sister, Mrs. Marie
Owings, of Denmark, and one brother,
Otto Sonntag, of Washington.
The body left last night for Washington.
Ain- Iia Earhart is planning to siaT
on h?>r around the world flight at the
equator, on or about March 15.
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