Snuggery Doings

P: Still on vacation in his rustic Bavarian snuggery, Adolf Hitler last week took time off from such joys as listening to the village accordionist (see cut) to commute a death sentence for the first time since he became Realmleader. With German judges now officially expected to cut their decisions in psychic accord with Herr Hitler's mental patterns (see above), interest had been keen as to what he would do in the case of one Wilhelm Keim, a youth sentenced to have his head chopped off for murdering his sweetheart. Commuting the death sentence to life imprisonment last week, the Realmleader observed: "Keim was not wholly responsible for his crime." Nazi jurists commented that the Keim killing was nonpolitical, recalled that Realmleader Hitler has never interfered with a political beheading. Notably Der Reichsfuhrer refused to spare beauteous Baroness Benita von Berg, famed aristocratic German stooge of a clever Polish spy (TIME, Feb. 25).

P:Death came last week at Spital to Austrian-born Adolf Hitler's maternal uncle Anton Schmidt. Austrian neighbors in Spital expected no condolences from the Realmleader. "Uncle Anton," they recalled, tried vainly for years to sponge on his illustrious but close-pursed nephew;. Finally he egged one of his sons to beg Cousin Adolf to send him $3 to buy a Nazi brown shirt. Replied the Realmleader: "Dear Cousin: You must buy your uniform with your own money. I am unable to accommodate you."

P:The Realmleader was distressed at reports of misconduct by "The Perfect Nazi," Juergen Ohlsen. Two years ago Herr Ohlsen was picked as the perfect German racial type, starred as the hero of a Nazi propaganda film, The Hitler Lad Quex, who was supposed to epitomize all Nazi virtues. Last week Juergen ("Quex") Ohlsen faced prompt expulsion from the Hitler Youth Organization for playing tennis regularly with a Jew.

P:The Realmleader, though nominally a Catholic, was said to approve a new credo devised by black-trousered Paul Stoelcel of the elite Hitler Special Guard:

I believe in the German mother who bore me,

I believe in the German peasant who tills the soil for his people,

I believe in the German worker who labors for his people.

I believe in the dead who died for the nation, for my god is my nation,

I believe in Germany.

P:The throat operation performed on Orator Hitler last May, two days after he displayed great hoarseness in his full- length oration to the Reichstag (TIME, June 3), was officially announced last week to have been for the removal of a polyp or outgrowth from the mucous membrane. Called "successful," the polypectomy was said to have cured Hitler's hoarseness.

P:Breaking off his South German rustication at last, the Realmleader sped north to Kiel this week, watched naval war games from the flagship Schleswig- Holstein with Defense Minister General Werner von Blomberg and No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Air Minister and Prussian Premier.

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