HYSTERIA OF PRESENT GERMANY

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 30 September 1933, Page 11

HYSTERIA OF PRESENT GERMANY

i i -triTLER ha's worked on- the- hysteria ous .programme, no .part of which, originated with himself,” said Professor S. H Roberts, in a lecture before the Australian Institute of Irifcertiaitioum-1 Affairs Part of that programme came from'his monitor, Bska-rt, part from the economists Gottfried- Fetter and Othmar Span. Hitler's emoitibnal exploitation fell mainly on two receptive classes* * pbeJe consisted of -embittered -ex-sol-diers and disillusioned youths wiho w-Cre suffering from the m'aki'utriUon of -the war period. To these were joined idealists Hitter -successfully juggled' with lihese temporarily united elements, added to which were other organisations. Hitlerism was thus a universalizing of every conceivable hate, combined with a tincture of half-baked economic theories and a Crudely nnliof Hitler's success consisted of the mistakes of his oppon-

Precarious Balance of Hitler Regime

puts. Hitler was now dictator otf Germany, yet, despite the exercis/e of every known form of coercion and propaganda, and the muzzling otf hiiis opponents, he pulled no mere than 4 per ce-nt, of the votes.

In the- background-, Hitlerism found itself confronted with all manner o-f difficulties. Hitler might now be in a Stronger position than over Bismarck bad dreamed of. but (his seat was aim uneasy -one. Economic factors word most likely -to hasten the dictator's ruin for hJe could keep conomic pace only by balancing a greasy pole between industrialists and agriculturists. 'Meanwhile every outward success oif Hitler was really weakening him He was prob-ably proving tire architect off his own ruin by provoking too many opponents at the same tim-c. If, h-owe-ver, Hitlerism did succeed- in itis pries Cult form, it would mean the buttressing of the old German ideas- of .repression and militarism a.t home -and Chauvinism abroad.