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Inside rides the most ruth- lessly ambitious, and most powerful of Hitler's lieutenants, cold, remorseless. Heinrich Himmler. As Reichsfuchrer of the Schutzstaffel or SS (Protec- tive Corps), Inspector of the Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo), and Commissioner of all German Police undersized Herr Hiramler is the man behind and above the law in Germany, and riding

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of the ways by which he reminds Germans of his far-flung powers.

A few days before the out- break of war Hitlor announced that, if he died, Goering, then Rudolph Hess, his personal Party deputy, would follow him. as Fuchrers. Unfortunately for Hitler's plans, this divine right of Nazi succession does not have

HIMMLER, Chief of the Gestapo

Despite the fact that he is completely ignorant of inter- national affairs, Himmler has often dabbled in foreign in- trigue. During the Moscow trial of General Tuchatschovsky and fifteen others in August, 1936, it was revealed by the prisoners but suppressed by the Court that Himmler had paid out thou- sands of Reichsmarks for what he thought was "secret military information."

Much to the delight of the Russians and the dismay of the Nazis, investigation revealed that Himmler had wasted valu- able foreign exchange buying ordinary newspaper reports, which were passed off to him as "secret military information."

The only Nazi leader who has done nothing but Party work all his life, Himmler's Nazi career began in the gutters of Munich when he was a 19-year-old Storm Trooper. The story of his rise to power-a riso made over the dead bodies of comrades and superiors-le a perfect example of the lack of personal loyalty in the inner Nazi circle.

Himmler knows loyalty to one man only-Adolf Hitler, whom he considers a "superman"-and as long as Hitler is alive Police- man Himmler will serve him faithfully. But once Hitler is removed by death or otherwise

"Himmler, the approval of the one man in ler successfully removed the formed Hitler that the Reichs-

Smart money inside Germany powerful enough to Army officers who opposed his wehr was planning a putsch take care of the other contenders Germany is being bet on him to territorial expansion, Himmler against the Government, hoping for the Fuehrer's job. saw his chance to win the War to be rewarded with the Wor In Herr Himmler's modest Minister's post. He mobilised' Ministry for his "vigilance," should take over his Fuehrer's | opinion, he is the man who

job and, as 'commander of the

In February, 1938, when Hit- his black-shirted forces and in Himmler will be loyal only to

prevent it-Ilimmler,

Alan A. Michie

world's biggest private army The MAN who financed

RITZ THYSSEN has fled j from Germany. He was

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lies.

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HITLER evidence given.

in comeru because details of a highly immoral character were revealed by

he

Peace, or Surrender?

When Hitler, just after the Munich agreement, warned the British against permitting cer- tain of their leaders to join the (the armed, black-shirted SS or Elite Guards) and the world's Cabinet, he showed himself in-largest police force (the Gestapo, capable of understanding the plus the regular police, Himmler the man who placed his millions

is in the best position to make at the disposal of Hitler the Iron ore and 50 per cent. of the out- British outlook.

Evidently the lenders of the bis opinion count.

agitator, hoping that a victory but of her cock men hundred HIS third son, August, aroused all

under

his paternal anger Third Reich-itself a

Despite 'Nazi efforts to make of the Nazis would crush the thousand workmen were govern-

when command. German labour movement

borrowed money from banks in Its landed property comprised not ment of men rather than of believe that all is harmonious

in its less than 33,000 acres. It-owned a found an industrial enterprise of his strongly entrenched

Western Germany and Holland to laws--supposed they were deal- there is no doubt that Hitler's Hitler by being appointed head miles, 14 private ports, 209 electric in driving the son into bankruptcy. among the Nazi high command. unions, and was rewarded by railway system of more than 1,200 own. August, the father, succeeded ing with a government of men death would start a scramble for of Germany's entire mining and power stations and tenements hous and grasping for himself the Ruc- in London, and that so long as his mantic. Himmler, although iron industry.

ing more than 40,000 workers' fami- dersdorfer Zementfabrik, cement certain men remained in power youngest of the Nazi bigwigs,

Fritz Thyssen was allotted 20 per the equivalent of £550,000. August works into which the latter had sunk has in some ways

the best in the British Government, the chance to come out on top.

cent. of its capital of 1,200 million the son took revenge by contributing QUINCE the year 1920 Hitler and Reichsmarks, equivalent to Third Reich could have its own

Goering had often been Thyssen's million, and becaine president of the striking workers of one of his father's 2,000 Reichsmarks to the funds of the His cunning ruthlessness, guesto at his Castle Landsberg on one trust. _way_with_all smaller countries in which-knows-no-bounds, gives of-the-hills overlooking the Ruhr the area it calls "Lebensraum."him a tremendous advantage valley, Thera. when plans were

for shaped The man who flew to Berch-over the blustering, slow-moving Thyssen had given the heads of the T the host had been bulbind by THE oldest son, Heinrich, married a

Germany's future, Goering, the unpopular Goeb-Nazi party his promise that he would trust up tesgaden and then to Godesberg bels, and the comparatively-back them to the Inst farthing of his his father. August Thyssen.

lady of the Hungarian aristoc- racy, was made a Baron of the and then to Munich, however, unknown Hess; as the man who vast fortune in their campaign against composed of iron- and coal-mines, Austro-Hungarian Empire by the old

supervised

melting-works and rolling-mills. At the murders of the liberty of the German people. Hamborn and Muehlhelm in the to his family name that of his wife, Emperor Francis Joseph, and added Rochm, Gregor Strasser, the former Chancellor Kurt

creative mind of his own. From his in Lorraine and at Caen in Northern Rhine-Ruhr district, ot Hagendingen von father, August Thyssen, he had in France, were their

Bornemisza. His residences at The Schleicher, and hundreds of herited the Immense Industrial estate

blast furnaces. Hague, Berlin and Munich are Ailed with magnificent treasures. AL others put out of the way by the and the lust for power, but not the Private parts and piers with mama Castagnola, on the shores of Lake SS and the Gestapo during five fighting spirit. Even as a man of moth cranes for loading manga Lugano, he owns the Villa Fortunato, years of Nazism, Himmler is advanced years he was known and res were owned in Nikolajewsk at

Leopold of Prussia, British India. experienced in disposing of op always referred to as "young Thys- the Black Sea, on the Atlantic shores once the seat of Prince Frederick

of Brazil and

cousin and August Thyssen had only two brother-in-law of Emperor William ponents; most important of all,

passions: the love for money as II. 250,000 ho commands

source of power, and the love for At the age of 60 he divorced hla the Gestapo, and the regular men, armed members of the SS, TOLLOWING the revaluation of his second son, Fritz, With his wife first wife to murry a beautiful 20- the Reichsmark the gigantic Ger- and other children he had nothing year-old Berlin mannequin, but the police who will be his shock man steel trust, the "Vereinigte Stahl- common but mutual hatred. Law marriage was not a success. This troops in his bid for power. werke," was created by a merger of suits in which all kinds of family giri, the Baroness Maud von Thyssen- the most important iron works of scandals come to light were fought | Bornemisza, it will be remembered, the Ruhr district. It controlled 75 year after year in the German courts,) was injured in the car smash in per cent. of Germany's production of löften their sessions had to be held which "Prince" Serge Mdivani, ex-

is the same man who has now told Herr Hitler that the peace on which the Third Reich has continued to count for victory is not in the British vocabulary. Peace based on the abuse of confidence in the pledged word, peace built on the ashes of Polish cities and on the moral ruins of Czech democracy, peace balanced on the violently shift- ing policy of opportunism which could lead to a marriage of National Socialism and Bol- shevism in Moscow, peace that even now is regarded by the signers of the Russo-German general aggression pact as portunity to divide Europe be- tween them that peace. Mr. Chamberlain stated, London sees as surrender.

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Goering, Goebbels and Hess can count on no armed support. Moreover, they can count on no quarter from Himmler once the struggle for Hitler's power be op-gins.

Himmler has fought Munich days of the Party; he Gooring ever since the early despises Goebbels, as do most of the Nazi underlings; he has tolerated Hess simply because, as the man who had access to

Hitler at all times, Hess was in: a position to do Himmler im- portant favours.

The approval voiced in the House of Commons and along London's darkened streets is an approval which does not ignore the possible costs of persever- ance on the field Herr Hitler

Ambition is Himmler's middle himself chose when he marched name and his schemings and on Poland. No Briton so san- intrigues in fields beyond his guine as to expect the Third own have often caused embar- rassment in high Nazi quarters. Reich's reply to be confined to He is intensely jealous of the words; many expected the an- power of the Reichswehr and swer to come from the skies has long schemed to get the posts of Minister of the Interior over black-out London. But No and of War.

is No. And Berlin's apparently hopeful reference to intervening to hear, in more specific. tion by the United States shows terms than they have yet heard, the Third Reich is beginning to what are the war and peace' understand..

aims of the Allles. They would Millions the world over are like to see the blue-print for hoping, working and praying for, reconstruction to consult frank- pence. Those called upon toly with the architects of the make sacrifices for it are wait-

world's to-morrow.

Fritz Thyssen never

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husband of the Woolworth helress, Barbara Hulton, met his couple of years ago.

death

When old August Thyssen died, af the age of 85, he had won all the family lawsuits, so that, in nccord- ance with his testament, his beloved son Fritz could succeed him in the possession of the. £20 million estate and the chairmanship of the whole vast Industrial organisation,

TOGETHER with Emil Kirdorf.

another one of Germany's Indus trial lenders, 'he rendered Hitler the Anancial assistance that enabled him to rise to power: Between them they provided the enormous sums required for the upkeep of Hitler's private army of brown shirts.

Two years ago the first conflict arose between Fritz Thyssen and the Fuchrer. Thyssen resented being spied upon by Himmler's Gestapo,. who listened in to his telephone con- versations and opened his letters. In consequence, he left, Germany for a lengthy voyage to South America, whence he returned, after a recon cillation had been brought about by the intervention of friends,

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TOW this man, member of IN

Prussian State Council, economic dictator of Germany's heavy Indus- try, bearer of the golden badge of the Nazi party, president of the board of directors of a score of Gar- man and International companies, and syndicates, has fled the country, | abandoning the greatest part of his

riches. He has seen the Writing on.. the Wall,

M. Walter