BOGUS HITLER.
AN APRIL FOOL JOKE. LONDON, April 1. Europe is laujrhinjr at an April Fffol joke played by the 8.8.C. on the Nazis, and consisting of a speech by a bogus Hitler, who faithfully reproduced the peculiarities and mannerisms of the Fuehrer's delivery The impersonator, a well-known Austrian actor. Herr Martin Miller, e|.okc during the German programme, and he reminded his German aud'ence that Columbus discovered America because be v as using German-made instruments. "Since 1492 I have remained silent."' he said. "Now my patience is ended. There are in the UnUed states minorities closely connected with the Ge-"iv«in Reich by race and tradition, including 324,000 Czechs in OiW«i. and 476,000 Poles in New York They are entitled to the protection o> the Reich, which I am enforcing." The bogus Fuehrer concluded by pi*, claiming a German protectorate over the United State*, his speech being frequently interrupted by the "boiling"' of an imaginary audWice.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 83, 8 April 1940, Page 7
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