Hitler On Front Page, 1931
Less than a week after Germany signed the Drug Limitation Convention, financial collapse was everywhere and Hitler got front page billing in a New York daily paper . ( link ). Nor was this a one-off fluke . Germany's anti-Versailles Treaty Führer made p2 of a Connecticut daily that same day.( link ) NOT shown were the real culprits: President Herbert Hoover, Narcotics Commissioner Harry Anslinger, Rep. Hamilton Fish Jr. and the League of Nations Opium Advisory Committee . Also blameworthy were ordinary citizens, duped into believing that hemp and coca leaves can produce addiction, that banning production and trade causes economic stability, and that even though poppy opiates can cause addiction, pointing loaded guns at plant-using people is reasonable, non-violent and conducive to peace, prosperity and safety. None of these individuals caused the German collapse of July 1931. The cause of Hitler's sudden success was clearly spelled out in black and white in thre...