HITLERISM, GOOD AND BAD

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 90, 13 October 1934, Page 24

HITLERISM, GOOD AND BAD

"Hitler's Wonderland," by Michael Fry, published by John Murray, presents a picture of Germany's economic and moral chaos immediately before the rise of Hitler. The Nazi revolution is then described with its attendant horrors, the author, a journalist, having personal experience with the Storm Troops. Light is thrown on Hitler's anti-Semitism and on Germany's secret re-armament. Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, and, other Nazi officials have penportraits painted, and the book, which includes descriptions of events up to the end of June this year, concludes with a study of Germany's internal position, together with a comprehensive review of Fascism throughout the world. The whole is an entertaining, and apparently trustworthy, account of Hitlerism good and bad.

"Hitler's Official Programme" is a useful and informative little booklet from George Allen and Unwin, Ltd. The author, Gottfried Feder, was asked by Adolf Hitler to formulate the official programme of the German National Socialist Party. This was first published in 1927, and the present booklet is a translation of the fifth German edition, printed in 1934.

"The Other Germany," published by Lovat Dickson, is an illustrated diary of a Heidelburg student. The author, Gordon Bolitho, a British subject who was resident in Auckland when the war broke out in 1914, gives a calm record of tho life of the average German, his book being the account of the three years he spent as a student in that country "among sane, anxious people who have no voice in the political maelstrom, in the millions of homos where sfche masses are waiting for the millennium."