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THE BISMARCK TRIBUN HAT NEXT FOR ADOLF HITLER? | Chancellor Who Rose in Ten Years From Humble House Painter to Spectacular Power Sits on Hot Lid in Country Rent By Unrest, Ripe for Reign of Revolutionary Violence In 1928, Adolf Hitler was an obscure Austrian house painter (1) just beginning to become prominent as an oratorical ex- horter of a modest “brown shirt” movement. His Brown Shirt membership began to grow as he continued feverish or- ganization efforts with Josef Goebbels, an aide (2). The movement spread, gained force, and 10 years later Hitler was replying to cheering tens of thousands from his Berlin hotel window (3). Scarcely more than 10 years from his modest beginnings, this man was chancellor, and is shown (4) paying respects to venerable President von Hindenburg (right) attended by Herman Goering, another aide, now the premier of Prussia. Late last year came an ill omen, when Hitler, laying the cornerstone for a new Munich building, broke the hammer (5) with which he was completing the ceremony. But early this year new heights were reached when 2,000,000 Ger- mans pledged allegiance to Hitler’s regime in a gigantic ceremony at Berlin’s Tempelhof airport (6). Only a few weeks ago, Hitler made a hurried flight to Venice for secret conferences with Benito Mussolini, Italian Fascist leader (7) and there, it is believed, he received some pointed advice from the Italian dictator. Today (8), victor over an insurgent faction, Adolf Hitler sits on the hot lid of a country that seethes with dissension and uncertainty, | Hindenburg and Hitler Weigh Reich’s Future Nazis Watch Him Prince August Wilhelm (above), fourth son of the former kaiser, was reported to be under “protec- tive surveillanee” of the Nazi gov- ernment. Chancellor’s Puppet Chancellor Hitler's orders for a Nazi house-cleaning are being exe- cuted by General Hermann Goer- ing (above), Air Minister and Pre- mier of Prussia. Potent Hitler Ally As head of Germany's regular army, General Werner von Blomberg (above), Minister of Defense, is per- haps Chancellor Hitler's most po- tent ally. Watchfully Waiting It was reportedly a plot to restore the German monarchy under for- mer Kaiser Wilhelm II (qbove) thet wes brewing within the Storm Troops’ ranks. Nazi Victim No: 1 Captain Ernst Roehm (above). Storm Troop leader, who reportedly plotted against Hitler, was stood up against a wall and shot to death. MORAL TURPITUDE IN NAZI RANKS LONG COMMON KNOWLEDGE, SAYS WRITER and ahot by Hitler’ and took up the job of forming Brown Shirt troops all over Germany. ‘Whatever else the man was, he was soldier and organizer. Beginning jazi organiza the official | not because of their moral turpitude, | in a small way, he soon had a huge committed the jotorious Of all the men sacrificed by Hitler, /sO many of Hitler's early adherents, he was a Bavarian. He had been a |front line officer during the World; sistent foe of the republic. inixed up in various plots against the | | State and when things became too’ uncomfortable, went to Bolivia to, train that country’ returned to Germany, became a Nasi Roehm was the most notorious. Like | wit private army, itc supreme leader. But about two years ago a storm broke about his head. A German paper charged him Ith 1 practices. Roehm Promptly filed a libel suit. But every time it was to come up for trial, he | soldier most of his life, serving as @|funked the issue. The paper dared, him to appear in court and press his war. A reactionary, he was a con-/ case. It said it was just honing to| He was read into the record the letters Roehm ; had written to young men. He never the challenge. Hitler Took No Notice army. Later he None of this ill repute affected his; Puhrer standing with Hitler. The Berlin Storm Troop Headquarters Ordered Banned views and political demonstrations. In a laudatory announcement, the not only confirmed him in vate ot | the portraits of the sanctified leaders jand biographies of him were printed. | Edmiund Heines, who also served had been mixed up with the dark | Feactionary societies ever since 1918. | He was chosen by one of these fo | “execute” a fellow member accused | amnesties so prevalent in the last 10 years and at once joined the Nazis. as head of all the young men | Moreover, they made him one of their er.” He was duly elected. When the Nazis came into power, Heines was made boss of the police of the great eastern city of Breslau, |Opened a concentration camp and | proceeded to make life a hell for Socialists, {to places of great power, he soon |branched out into luxurious living. | The fine homes, the immense cars, the sumptuous dinners, the drunken FRIENDS AND FOES OF BELEAGUERED HITLER REGIME Defends Der Fuhrer Chancellor Hitler's bloody res- sion of rebellion was defended ‘be- fore the world by Dr. Joseph Goebbels (above), Minister of Prop- aganda. FEW GERMANS ARE FOOLED BY PRO-HITLER PROPAGANDA WHICH ACCOMPANIES “LAUNDERING” OF THE BROWN SHIRTS appeared with him at parades, re- prison after one of the numerous| leaders soon became matters 6f no- | toriety. | Ernst Uses Brutal Methods Karl Ernst sowed the wind army, but gave | candidates for the Reichstag and he| reaped the whirlwind. A_ brutal binet as minister | publicly campaigned as the “Vehm | roughneck, he was made head of Brown Shirts of Berlin. It was the capital city that in the early months of the Nazi regime the great- est brutalities were practiced. Shud- Heines | thrown up by the Nazi movement in-| found shot “while | People lived in fear t knock at their door, usually at mid- |night or after, when most Berliners | were in bed and no inquisitive visiting of treachery. He was released from | and immoral orgies of many of these | foreigners were about. Before Mutiny Separated Hitler and Storm Troop Chief