"This Miracle"

Nazi work done as Realmleader Hitler & Cabinet held their last meeting prior to summer vacation in a Berlin so hot (96DEG) that twelve people sweltered to death in three days:

P: All persons in Germany, including foreigners, were ordered by Cabinet decree to obey whatever instructions Reich authorities may issue "for protection against air attack." In practice this means that foreigners must now rush about with Germans, donning gas masks, popping into cellars, and having their homes rummaged by Nazi inspectors whenever Air Minister General Hermann Wilhelm Goring orders one of his realistic mock air raids.

P: The new Penal Code was in part authorized. None of it having been published, Minister without Portfolio Hans Frank explained: "German lawyers will be filled with joy to hear that the former principle of 'no punishment without law' has been replaced by the principle 'no crime without punishment.' This should obligate German men of the law to a new gratitude to Der Fuehrer. For the first time the concept of 'love of Der Fuehrer' has become a legal concept." P: Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick received final authority to settle all German church disputes.

Simultaneously 9,000,000 boys & girls of the Hitler Youth were mustered in Summer Solstice Festivals frankly pagan. Mostly these were held on the "sacred German soil" of mountain tops not too difficult of ascent. At some the apple-cheeked, wondering children were invited to cast any sins which they felt they had committed upon Nazi bonfires in which the sins would be consumed.

Striking the Solstice keynote, No. 2 Nazi Goring cried: "No church has been built so beautiful, so great, so mighty and so strong in faith as the dome of God over this mountain! . . . Let us lift up our hearts to the ideal of our Fuehrer rather than listen to the chattering of quarrelsome clerics. ... A miracle of the Almighty has been performed through Adolf Hitler. . . . Today our shining armor is filled with strength again! . . . This is the result of this miracle."

Since Britons are now helping Adolf Hitler to break the Treaty of Versailles and burnish Germany's shining armor anew, General Goring cried fervently: "We welcome Great Britain into the community of Germanic Blood!" At the Berlin festival Nazi youths chanted the refrain: "Today we have Germany, tomorrow we will have the world."

P: "If I were God," observed No. 3 Nazi Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels a few days later, "I would select other spokesmen than those who now claim the right to speak for Him. . . . Many intellectuals are trying to help the Jews with the ancient phrase, 'the Jew is also a man.' Yes, he is a man but what sort of a man? The flea is also an animal!"

P: To celebrate the Blood Purge of June 30, 1934, when over 200 Germans were shot by Adolf Hitler's orders to make things easier for the Party (TIME, July 9, 1934), some 120,000 Germans were mobilized last week in Berlin. Announced Berlin Deputy Party Leader Goerlitzer who made the arrangements: "We prefer to demonstrate in intimate simplicity. We scorn to stage a pompous and festive program."

P: Eighty Germans now being trained by the government to edit newspapers were tongue-lashed by Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels. "I am informed that your education and abilities are far from satisfactory," he roared. "It is no excuse for you to say that, being of humble origin, your schooling was bad. Almost all the men who rule Germany today came of obscure stock. They too were not born in palaces! . . . You may imagine that I am willing to pass over the conditions among you for a couple of months, but I will not do so for a longer period. I will not allow the German Press to decline to a low cultural level!"

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