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249 pp. ; orange-tan cloth with brown lettering ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, labels, date due, pocket ; foxed ; LCCN: 40-31076 ; OCLC: 643266 ; LC: DD247.S8; Dewey: 943.085 ; "Otto Strasser, together with his brother Gregor Strasser, was a leading member of the party's left-wing faction, and broke from the party due to disputes with the 'Hitlerite' faction. He formed the Black Front, a group intended to split the Nazi Party and take it from the grasp of Hitler. This group also functioned during his exile and World War II as a secret opposition group. Strasser fled first to Austria, then to Prague (where he resisted Hitler), Switzerland and France. In 1940, he went to Bermuda by way of Portugal, leaving a wife and two children behind in Switzerland. In 1941, he emigrated to Canada, where he was the famed "Prisoner of Ottawa". During this time, Goebbels denounced Strasser as the Nazis' "Public Enemy Number One" and a price of $500,000 was set on his head. He settled for a time in Montreal. In 1942, he lived for a time in Clarence, Nova Scotia on a farm owned by a German-speaking Czech Adolph Schmidt, then moved to nearby Paradise, where he lived for more than a decade in a rented apartment above a general store. As an influential and uncondemned former Nazi Party member still faithful to many doctrines of National Socialism, he was prevented from returning to West Germany after the war, first by the Allied powers and then by the West German government. During his exile, he wrote articles on the Third Reich and Nazi leadership for a number of British, American and Canadian newspapers, including the New Statesman, and a series for the Montreal Gazette, which was ghostwritten by then Gazette reporter and later politician Donald C. MacDonald. Strasser was allowed to return to Germany in 1955 by a ruling of the Federal Administrative Court (after having previously been denied entry by the West German government) and regained his citizenship settling in Munich. He attempted to create his own, new, "nationalist and socialist"-oriented party in 1956, the German Social Union (often called a successor to the 1949-1952 forbidden Socialist Reich Party of Germany), but it was unable to attract support. For the rest of his life, Strasser continued to call for and propagate neo-Nazism until his death in Munich in 1974." ; Contents: My first meeting with Hitler -- The German cauldron -- The conspirators of the Burgerbrau -- Hitler writes Mein Kampf -- The man Hitler -- Hitlerism versus Strasserism -- Open combat -- Through treason to power -- The Gestapo on my heels -- The German blood-bath -- Hitler, master of Europe -- The future against Hitler -- Postscript, June 1, 1940 ; fascinating account by the socialist brother of Nazi Gregor Strasser, and one of the earlier accounts of the Nazi concentration camps ; VG. Seller Inventory # 006022
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