October 1, 1939 Then-Now Guarding the Dictators HITLER DOESN'T DO THIS ANY MOREl (Continued from page one.) that date he canceled all engage- or any other form of armament. Terror of the Assassin ments save one, the New Year's But when on the ground it is reception of the diplomatic corps. closely guarded day and night A film of that ceremony shows to prevent sabotage. Drives Hitler to Cover the central figure holding stiffiy More than once Hitler has had his left arm. narrow escapes in the air, but large vase off a pedestal. In- On May 15, so the whispered The only bravado that Hitler not from assassins. There was stantly from behind each curtain tale tells, the two sat side by permits himself is to take tea in the occasion when he was flying in the room appeared Black side in a car that was taking the public lounge of the Berlin to Danzig, where he was due to Guards with leveled weapons. Hitler to Bernau. To all appear- Kaiserhof nearly every day when make a speech. The weather It was when Hitler adopted ances Hitler sat in the passen- he is in the capital. It is seem- was bad, and the pilot flew the use of a double that his ger's seat while Schreck drove. ingly possible for anyone to straight into a storm. Soon he enemies chuckled and the assas- But this time Hitler, his lank enter that lounge and take a lost himself in low cloud and fog, sins were bewildered. This dou- hair drawn back, a chauffeur's table for tea in close proximity and, taking the wrong direction ble was Julius Schreck, a Ba- hat pulled forward, was driving to the leader. But should any over Denmark, was fiying out varian, aged 38, who also acted the car. Schreck, his hair drawn one do so he would be the eyno- to the North sea instead of along as chauffeur in the giant Mer· forward in the Hitler manner, sure of all eyes. It is usual to the Baltic. cedes. Schreck bore a certain sat in the leader's place. They leave all tables adjoining that Hitler looked at his watch and resemblance to the Fuehrer-he reached a railway crossing and used by Hitler unoccupied. At found that he was already a had the same type of small black slowed up. As they did so, shots the same time a dozen black- • As an example of the extraordinary precautions taken to quarter of an hour overdue for mustache - though he was 01 fired with unerring accuracy coated guards, each with an safeguard Adolf Hitler from assassins in Poland or elsewhere his meeting. Realizing that his sturdier and m 0 r e powerful burst from the roadside. The automatic and each a crack shot, was the announcement issued from Berlin Sept. 11. man in the passenger's seat pilot had lost his way, he gave build. During the nine years he may be observed lounging about • This announcement stated Hitler would not accept flowers the order, "Turn in your tracks the room. Thus under such eon- while traveling through areas occupied by his troops . and fiy southward." Thanks to . ditions Hitler is able to enjoy a the Fuehrer's sixth, and in Oer- • Donors were directed in the announcement to present their modest cup of tea with toast. fiowers to German soldiers instead of to Hitler. man eyes divine, sense of self- preservation, they regained land e e e and came down safely. headquarters in capitals abroad. mense amount of organization Hitler considers his safest reo But there are murder clubs Funds collected from trade un- was Invclved, but a wonderful treat is the Hans Wachenfeld, other than Roehm's Revengers ionists and individual subscrlb- system had been set up. The looking down on Austrian Salz- ready to seize an opportunity 01 ers in many countries, including chain of agents had been extend· burg. As a result he spends most assassinating Hitler and over- Britain, F ran c e, the United ed by innocent looking Identlflca- of his time in this mountain re- throwing the dictatorship. J. States, Italy, and Spain, were tion disks which conveyed noth- treat preparing to launch those C. Little, president 01 the Amal- forwarded to the distributing ing to the uninitiated. There week-end coups which upset the gamated Engineering union, reo committee. was also a system of punching diplomatic week-ends of other Julius Schreck AdoU Hitler Unofficial •.double •• cently excited a gathering of The new movement consisted the disks to indicate the .recelpt nations. The road leading to his trades unionists at Morecambe solely of Germans. It met perl- of funds. "The definite object mountain chalet is heavily po- was Hitler's chauffeur he drove slumped. The wrong man had by telling of a secret group of odically and frequently changed of this movement is the over- liced and only those with special him for many thousands of been assassinated. What truth Germans whose object was to its headquarters in Switzerland, throw of Hitler," he said. "The permits are allowed to enter it. miles to every corner of the there is in the story is difficult overthrow Hitler. Mr. Little Belgium, and Holland to prevent German authorities are making Moreover, the whole estate is Reich. Joining the Nazi party in these strange German times elaborated this statement in an detection. Arrangements were frantic efforts to stamp it out. surrounded by barbed wire, with in 1921, he was one of its oldest to discover. The fact remains interview. made to smuggle the funds into Nearly three weeks ago 600 per- . armed pat r 0 1 s at strategic members and had taken part in that Schreck is dead, as a search This secret organization, he Germany. The German authorl- sons were arrested in one Berlin points. many of its street battles, Includ- began at once for another double said, was formed about a year ties knew that 15,000 pounds suburb. Fewer than ten agents Hitler knows all the wily ways ing the Munich putsch. of Hitler. There were no volun- ago. Former trades union lead- was distributed among support- of the secret body have been of the underworld. He is one of D uri n g election campaigns teers for the post. ers began the movement. Only ers in Berlin alone last Chrtst- rounded up, and they have reso- the dictators who began his po- Julius Schreck sometimes slept A bomb was thrown once at trusted members of works com- mas, but that was all they knew. lutely refused to give away any litical 'career as a spy. So, the (A •• oclated Pre.. photo.) in his clothes for weeks at a the supposed leader's car at Nu- mittees, corresponding to shops' They dId not know who dlstrtb- information. I am convinced business of espionage comes nat- 1939- A gla •• shield protects the time, taking a short nap at the remberg in 1932. Only Julius stewards in England, were elect- uted the money. Some of it had that in the near future more Fuehrer at Wilhelmstra •• e as he urally to him. The story as told wheel while the Fuehrer was Streicher was in the car. Then ed. Each was given a number, been spent in relief and some In than 2,000 agents will be work- launches a warship. The ••wind by Heiden relates how Hitler, delivering a speech-and then on a year ago there were strong and elaborate precautions were propaganda. ing In Germany for this move- breaker" was reported actually to serving as a noncommissioned again through the night. rumors that the Fuehrer had taken to prevent incrimination. Plans were beIng formulated ment." have b.en bulletproof. officer, was in 1919 detailed to Schreck in German means ••ter- been wounded in the arm by a The international collecting corn- to extend the operations of the attend labor meetings, mingle ror," and he was nicknamed young woman. Certainly about mittee had been formed, with agents outside Berlin. An Im- NEXT WEEX-Guarding' Mu•• olini. with workers' groups, and reo "del' Schreck der Landstrasse" r------_ port to his superiors the state of (the terror of the highway). popular opinion. It was while Hitler, for various reasons, pre- on one of these missions that he ferred to travel fast' on the open heard a man named Gott1ried highway, but his chauffeur was Feder speak. He was impressed' too good a driver to justify his by Feder's violent economic the- nickname .. ories. He came again to hear The fact that Schreck could How Young! How Beautiful! him and joined excitedly in the pOse as double for Hitler en- discussion. He even s po k e hanced his reputation in the eyes against an opposition speaker. of the leader. He was not only He attracted notice and was one of the hlghest-pald officials And what a Lovely Skin! soon one of the leaders of this in the Reich, but he also formed new political part)', which event- one of the triple suicide pact. ually became the Nazis. At the Three men were bound together THIS CHARMING CONNECTICUT BRIDE HAS A BEAUTY TIP FOR YOU same time Hitler continued his to kill themselves if, despite their espionage work, having then be· vigilance, something should hap- come the double spy. pen to Hitler. The three men in There have been doubts cast this suicide pact were Bruckner, WES1'OR1. CONN. • e upon Hitler's personal courage. Schaub, and Schreck. k to batle a nl& , It is related by his enemies that My fr;enJ,s say "mlU;';graleful-grale- e e e when he and his men were fired 'b skin, bul Isay ~'I for years be- s11lOO• , l'1Ie tlse•• S k eP on in the Munich putsch of 1923 Lieutenant Bruckner is the ful 10 CatnaY· b leansing bell'S e '1 IhoroUg c , Hitler fiung himself tot h e immensely tall Black Guard who e caus ?:looking so fresh/ DORIS LIGll't ground with such violence that was at Hitler's side when he per- my s kS (Sistll4) ob 1 Ligh/) his shoulder was broken. Wheth· sonally arrested Roehm in the ~ (Mrs. R er April 7.1939 er this be true or not, the fact blood purge of June 30, 1934. He remains that Hitler sees that sleeps in the next room to Hitler, every precaution is taken to save always armed. Schaub, the sec- SO YOUNG, YES. But though you him from the lurking assassin. ond of the trio, has the job of may no longer be as young as lovely When Hitler drives in his planning the route for Hitler Mrs. Light, you can still bring out high-powered seven-seater car when he leaves Berlin. He has the best in your complexion. "I£," three of the Black Guards sit to confer with police chiefs and Mrs. Light warns you, "you're care- directly behind their leader, who make certain that roads will ful about giving your skin the right sits beside the chauffeur. When be clear or else well guarded ki1Jdof care. 1use Camay!" he addresses meetings four of against assassins. Julius Schreck ONCEYOU'VEUSEDCAMAY-you'U them always keep him in sight drove the car and at certain see that it has a priceless beauty from a position near the plat- parts kept his foot down on the cleansing combination ... thorough. accelerator. form. If the bodyguard are not ness with mildness. Camay gets your In June, 1936, came the news actually in his car they follow skin completely clean, yet Camay is close behind, orten standing on of the death of Schreck, the dou- wonderfully gentle, too! We'veproved ble, from meningitis. Hitler was the running boards. P hot o- that mildness with tests against sev- reported to have visited his graphs show that their right eral other popular toilet soaps on chauffeur in the hospital and hands are usually resting on various types ofskin.Time after time, wept when the news of his old pistol holsters. W hen Herr Camay came out definitely milder. Himmler was appointed chief friend's death was brought to of the German police orders him. When, instead of being THOUSANDS O. GIRLSinsist on were given to double the leader's buried in the normal manner of Camay for complexion and bath-to bodyguard. An extra car of one of his rank, Schreck was help keep back and shoulders lovely armed guards was assigned to interred with the highest mfli- -as an aid to daintiness. Camay is accompany him wherever he tary honors, strange rumors low in price. Get three cakes today! went. At the same time the began to circulate in Germany. route along which the leader's It was said that Schreck had car will pass is lined with Black been killed by the secret antl- Guards alternately facing In- Hitler organization known by Carnay ward and outward. the initials R. R. Since that grim Hitler has his own special night in June, 1934,when Hitler rite Soap of Beautiful Women guard at the chancellery. It had his right-hand man, Ernst consists of about a hundred Roehm, put up against a wall Black Shirts. They wear steel and shot, Roehm's friends have helmets and carry rifies. Two sworn revenge. They formed an are stationed at the main gates. organization called Roehm's Re- A group is in the reception hall. vengers. This murder club was Two more guard the archway to feared by Hitler more than any the inner court. And two more other danger. " Your .lein ;"0 s.nsitive, "Jusl look 01 mel Can Ihi' guard the courtyard doorway. Mysteriously, on walls and Rulh - Iry a genII. soap be my ,kin - '0 smoalh, Inside the building the corridor's bridges, the sinister letters ••R. Iii,. Camayl" and so"I" ~,;~ in the vicinity of Hitler's office R." appeared overnight. Oov- !i; ,~~, J seem to swarm with guards car- ernment officials scanning docu- ~~~.-.,./ »: Z rying automatics. ments found ••R. R." scribbled The story is told of a British in the corners. It was because politician who was invited to of the growth of this murder lunch with Hitler at the chan- club that Hitler commanded that ~I(\d,:~( cellery. Talk and the lunch pro- his guards be doubled and began Camay - lake a bow I Bill (Acme photo.) ceeded. The British politician to use Schreck as a puppet for can'l help liking Rulh', com- 1938- At Munich, backed up by was nervous. In the course of himself in certain public appear- plexion now I trusted members of his staff. making a gesture he knocked a ances.