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183the other parties they feel free to set up their own standardsof ethics in the legislative field. They are sure it is unethicalto be ethical toward the political opponent, since suchchivalry would delay the advent of the Third Reich in whichthe morality of the superman will prevail.Therefore, whatever a Nazi says in the legislature doesnot need to be taken seriously. Parliament is merely an annexof the publicity department of Nazi headquarters. Inthese discussions they always follow the same plan. Theyrepeat the same simple ideas scores of times, since they knowthat if people hear the same nonsense many times they willbegin to think it is the quintessence of wisdom. The publicgets tired of building up defences between their fear ofnovelty and the magic words.A parting glance is due the executive achievements of theNational Socialist Party. Dr. Wilhelm Frick, co-conspiratorof Hitler in 1923, self-styled political cannibal, was Ministerof Thuringia for fourteen months. He was the first NationalSocialist Minister in any German State.Although Frick‟s doings in the government building ofWeimar provided good copy for the German newspapers,they hardly bore out his reputation as a wild man, althoughit is true that he was a member of a coalition cabinet in whichhis party was in a minority. In his analysis of his work asMinister of the Interior and of Education, which he contributedto the “National Socialist Annual of 1932” theachievements he enumerates are extremely meagre. He takescredit for forbidding Erich Maria Remarque‟s All Quiet onthe Western Front, to be used in Thuringian schools.