By G. Johnson
Sir Eric Phipps was once British ambassador to Berlin through the an important interval among Hitler's determination to withdraw Germany from the League of countries to his choice to get entangled within the Spanish Civil struggle. His diary bargains a special and infrequently witty evaluate of Hitler and different top Nazis and their family and international regulations from 1933-1937. The diary entries are supplemented through linking contextual textual content in addition to brief biographies of key figures and steered extra analyzing.
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A trace of healthy, human fear of death would have reassured me more. Once or twice I felt inclined to smile at Herr Hitler's shouting crescendo, but the seriousness, not to say tragedy, of the situation prevented that inclination from developing. It was disquieting to feel such power in the hands of so unbalanced a being. I fancy that it is to the emotions of Germany's dictator rather than to his reason that we must suddenly appeal on any vital issue. Indeed [Franc;ois-Poncet] has found him easier to move than Baron von Neurath, whose great wish seems to be to outHerod Herod.
He declared that what foreign observers thought was military feeling was merely a well-disciplined attitude against Communism. He maintained that if he had not come to power half a million dead would have been heaped up in German streets. He shouted out that it was intolerable for Germany to submit to foreign interference, for a Dutchman and Bulgarians 14 to come and set fire to the Reichstag buildings and for accusations then to be made abroad that the German Government had had the fire started.
It has been asked, for instance, whether the movement is not a convenient screen behind which the old Prussian Nationalism is weaving its dark web. This may well be, but if so the screen itself is singularly inefficacious and fails to conceal the fact that the youth of Germany is being reared in a purely militarist spirit. When I told the Chancellor that militarism seemed to me to be the Leitmotiv of this country, whereas elsewhere it was merely an inCident, that a spark might suffice to kindle the militarist spirit into a war-like flame, I might have added that the above-mentioned campaign of lies, depicting Germany as the one innocent lamb among a pack of wolves, was not calculated to inculcate in German youth that spirit of peace and understanding advo- 1933 31 cated so inappropriately and so loudly after Germany's banging of the Geneva door.