The Hitler Terror Full title: The Brown Book of Hitler Terror and the Burning of the Reichstag

"Murder stalks through Germany. Mutilated corpses are carried out of Nazi barracks. The bodies of people disfigured beyond recognition are found in woods. Corpses drift down the rivers. "Unknown" dead lie in the mortuaries.

"During the [First] World War lists were published of those who were killed. The lists were even exchanged between enemy governments. The Hitler Government is naturally not so "liberal" as to publish the list of all its victims. Only a small number of the murders ever appear in the Press, and then in the form of ‘shot while trying to escape' or in some similar lying form; and if anyone were to try to get at the truth, he would suffer the same fate: torture and death."

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This 1933 book was prepared by the World Committee for the Victims of German Fascism and declares its mission is to fight on behalf of the "real" Germany. The book concentrates particularly on the Reichstag fire of 1933, which was apparently engineered by the Nazis themselves to create an excuse to round up their political enemies. While the Nazis publicly blamed the arson on a Dutch communist who was allegedly found inside, the book asks - boldly for its time - how an arsonist could possibly have entered the building in the first place when all points of access were strictly controlled by the Nazis.

The book puts the lie to the Nazi claim that concentration camps had been designed to protect their occupants, pointing out that their machine guns were positioned to keep the occupants inside, not to keep their enemies out.

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Compiling and writing the book was an act of bravery and foresight, and history would prove it to have been chillingly accurate.

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