Museum Piece

Adolf Hitler is not dead yet. He spoke this week in Berlin's Zeughaus Museum, commemorating Nazi Germany's Heroes' Memorial Day. There was no doubt that the voice was Hitler's; but it was a different voice from the one the world was used to hearing, harsher, monotonous and mumbling; and the words were spoken by a changed man. Perhaps by order, there was no applause.

What Adolf Hitler told his people will not live long in their hearts and minds. He spoke again of Germany as the barrier to Bolshevism, said that the front was stabilized after "undeserved" reverses, and actually understated the Wehrmacht's recent resurgence in Russia (see p. 75). He said that the R.A.F. had made Germany a "war zone"; the people knew it, could see it in their blasted cities. He made the fantastic claim that Germany had lost only 542,000 dead in World War II; by a conservative Allied estimate, the Germans have lost four million men killed, captured and permanently disabled in this war, and the majority of these in Russia.

What was important was that Hitler, insane or isolated, had once more spoken to his people and the world.

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