(By Arrangement with the "Daily Telegraph")
It is not surprising that anyone who has attained the' pu notoriety of Herr Hitler Jsomeone to write his biasraiphy. What surprising ts that more peopl should not have attempted it, bu the statement on the dust cover' {to be believed this i the only" thorized" life of Hitler. 1 doubledly interesting and taformative to.read of the Fushrer's early. his humble parentage, his youthful. adolescent and middle-axed struxales. his final. triumph—but no more than of many a man who fay rise 5 it BY upbringing did not apparently destine him. "Germany's Hitler went through many dificult phases before he, be~ Jame what he 1% whatever that may A Supreme Strusele lo mae To rend this account one might, had one not chapter and verse 10 the contrary. be led to the conclusion that the Fuhrer hod "triumphed "ina supreme struggle against overwhelm ing odds" without being gullly of any of those lapses. from the strict path of rectitude, honour and behaviour which have to be placed 10 is discredit. The seizure of Austria Jand Czechoslovakia are passed over {na few short sentences; nowhere is there a hint of the campaign of lies and subterfuges and chicanery which preceded these aggressive acquisitions: not a word about the treatment of the Jews nor of the putsch in 1834 during which Hitler caused to be murdered mary of his former friends and adherents whom rightly oF wrongly the had come to fear as pollical opponents lo 1 Unrestrained advice to any bounder 3 "promised inno toner side of the" otter stoat" 11 Binment Anima known in the Stock Exchanne 4 Rl, rr, sane bs at or other rodent eat show thie ours of our Gin plenty 17 Foreign water-carrier often tan organization of sorts rerbort of Wek that is certain All Due Creait Surely these are matiers with which any study of Hitler ly vitally concerned and which it might have been expected would have found some place in an account of his life. Hitler fax been convieled out of his own [mouth so often ax a man whose word not to be trusted—particularly regard to the Locarno Treaty, his "occupation of Austria and. his Jother territorial demyinds that, whilst [giving thun all credit for his success fu world polities and for the position which he has achieved for Germany, one cannot help feeling that no book which purports to be an account of hig life. can be considered complete without reference to some of any ate of these matters which tend 10
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