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141to the bank. The passport offices of German police headquarterswere crowded with anxious people, wanting to getout of the country before the Nazi threat would be fulfilledand heads would begin to roll.The news was flashed to all parts of the globe and itcreated consternation almost everywhere. This may mean,the world thought, a new departure in history. The worldwar would now be fought out on French territory anew. Theskeletons nicely tucked away in their cupboards would tumbleout of their hiding places and would perform a danse macabre,such as civilized humanity had never seen. Once the Germanstake to civil war, some foreign soothsayers feared, theywould do it so thoroughly that in comparison the Russian terrorwould be a child‟s play, jWhile the spotfire was concentrated on Hitler‟s spectaculargains few people took the trouble to analyse the figures.Those who did were not likely to share the gloomyforebodings, at least for the moment. They noticed that theSocialists still retained 143 members in the Reichstag and thatthe entire Marxist representation, including the Communists,comprised 220 deputies, who would offer strenuous resistanceto their bitter enemies, the reactionaries.Nor did it occur to many in the first excitement that outof the 576 Reichstag deputies only about 150 could be saidto be prepared for a Nationalist adventure. Nothing worsehad happened than that out of a voting population of 36,000,-000, some 6,500,000 had expressed their preference for the Hitlerbrand of salvation. The change did not portend morethan a return to 1924 conditions, with the difference that the