BY JAMES WATERMAN WISE

LITTLE more than a year ago, the Nazi movement
in Germany represented but one of a number of con-
flicting parties, struggling for power in a country which
--owing in part to a heritage of post-war injustice and
in part to the world-wide economic crisis--had lost faith
in itself and hope as to its future. Today that move-
ment and Germany are interchangeable terms. The
Swastika has not alone replaced the flag of the Repub-
lic as the official emblem of Germany's reversion from
democracy to dictatorship under the Third Reich; it
has come to symbolize a phenomenon--political, eco-
nomic, social, cultural, human--of profound and far-
reaching implications which may be summed up in the
single word: Nazism.

Nazism is not limited to Germany alone. Apart from
the obvious effect which so fundamental a change in
national structure and international policy as took
place in Germany, must have upon all nations in our
intimately interdependent world, the German Govern-
ment is today energetically engaged in Nazi propaganda
beyond its own borders. Movements employing all the
methods, symbols, and ideologies of Hitlerism are being
fostered throughout Europe, Central and South Amer-
ica, and in the United States. Thus it becomes doubly
imperative that Americans should know exactly what
Hitler and his party have done in and to Germany,
and what they are attempting in other lands.

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