Ignazification

Germany's leading encyclopedia, Brockhaus, demonstrated last week that it was keeping pace with changing times.

Said the encyclopedia's 1937 edition: "Naziism is an attitude towards life. . . . Naziism does not regard people as the sum of individual citizens but as a community bound by blood ties. . . . The foremost principle of Naziism is the Fuehrerprinzip. This means victory over the parliamentary system and over majority rule in all spheres of life and consolidation of all politically and productively superior forces of the nation. . . . Naziism intends to bring about the final rebirth of the nation and to safeguard the continuation of existence of the Reich, in the definite belief in its historic mission and in the future of the German people."

Said the new Brockhaus (under Military Government license): "Nazi--an endearing term for Ignaz, which in turn represents an abbreviation for Ignatius."

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