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GERMAN YOUTHTALKS ON HITLERTells Kiwanians of Rigid Censorship on Papers in Germany.There are some things Hitler has done in Germany which we like and some things we do not like/' de~ clared Leopold Liesenberg, 23 year old youth from Munich, Germany, who is visiting here, in a talk Thursday noon to the Kiwanis club in Hotel Hanford. We hope things arc getting better,” he added.The rigorous censorship in German newspapers was described by the German youth- He said that in all the newspapers the same articles and the same headlines appear on the same day. In each newspaper office, there is at least one Hitler representative who controls the policies of the newspaper.Germany was very much surprised, he continued,. when Hitler became the vice .chancellor. Mr,. Lies-enberg- said he thought. Germany had lost much respect of the world by its attitude toward the Jews. Hitler, however, is doing much to re-Iieve unemployment and in this respect seems to he meeting success.President's Pmvec Small.Mr. Lies cuberg told a story to illustrate the power possessed by the German president, von Hindenburg, who is loved by the German people but who is greatly advanced in yean*. Von Hindenburg and. Hitler were walking in a park when von Hindenburg dropped his handkerchief. Hitler picked it up and asked for the privilege of keeping it as a keepsake. '“No,” replied von Hindenburg, I want to keep it. It is the only thing I can put my nose into.'1Munich, the town in which Mr. Liesenberg’s father operates a seed store, is the town in which the nazi narty was founded in 1923 and is frequently visited by Hitler. In Germany this party is not called nazi/' ■which is merely a slang ohrase of the Bavarians.While in Mason City Mr. Liesen-berg is visiting Llovd Liesenberg,tr
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Mason City Globe Gazette
Mason City, Iowa, US
Thu, Dec 28, 1933
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