My sister is here, and the three of us celebrated Bastille Day a little tonight . We took her around to the cafes to watch the people dance . Later we ended up at Cafe Flore where I introduced her to some of the Latin Quarterites. Alex Small was in great form. When Alex started to fight the Battle of Verdun again, I dragged the family away, having heard it many times over the years.
It now develops that Hitler's purge was more drastic than first reported. Rohm did not kill himself, but was shot on the orders of Hitler . Other dead : Heines, notorious Nazi boss of Silesia, Dr. Erich Klausner, leader of the "Catholic Action" in Germany, Fritz von Bose and Edgar Jung, two of Papen's secretaries (Papen himself narrowly escaped with his life), Gregor Strasser, who used to be second in importance to Hitler in the Nazi Party, and General von Schleicher and his wife, the latter two murdered in cold blood. I see von Kahr is on the list, the man who balked Hitler's Beer House Putsch in 1923. Hitler has thus taken his personal revenge. Yesterday, on Friday the 13th, Hitler got away with his explanation in the Reichstag. When he screamed : "The supreme court of the German people during these twenty-four hours consisted of myself!" the deputies rose and cheered . One had almost forgotten how strong sadism and masochism are in the German people.
William Lawrence Shirer (1904-1993) was een Amerikaanse journalist, geschiedkundige en schrijver. Van zijn jaren als correspondent in Europa hield hij een dagboek bij, dat is uitgegeven als Berlin Diary.
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