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Headline: Hitler Outdoes Italy’s Leader as a Dictator
Sub-Headline: “Reawakening of Germany” Taking Effect at Rapid Pace

Publication Date: Sunday, March 19, 1933
Historical Event: Albert Einstein Quits Germany, Renounces Citizenship
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Tags: Gannett full page downloadable; Refugees and Immigration; Early Acts of Persecution
Article Type: News Article
Newspaper: The Daily Democrat (Tallahassee)/The Tallahassee Democrat
Location: Tallahassee, Florida
Page Section and Number: 6
Author/Byline: AP
Article Text: NEW YORK, Mar. 18.—(AP)—The "reawakening'[sic] of Germany, as Adolf Hitler calls it, is taking effect much more swiftly and with more far-reaching effects than the similar undertaking of Benito Mussolini in Italy a decade ago.

It was nearly two years after Mussolini came into power that Mattbotti, his Socialist foe, was silenced, and another year before the opposition in the press and parliament was entirely subdued.

Next Tuesday, Germany's parliament is expected to become indefinitely extinct whereas Italy's still exists. Less than three months after Hitler's ascension, the Lftist[sic] Press of Germany has been silenced and rigor mortis already is setting in for centrist organs.

COMMUNISTS PLACID
Mussolini's black shirts battled lustily with Socialists, finding comparatively few Communists to annoy them, and the result was sizeable Italian colonizations in France and Latin-America.

The German emigration resulting from the strafing the Socialists, Communists and Jews are getting from Hitler's brown shirts certainly is much more extensive. Thousands already have fled to surrounding countries.

The new diaspora of Jews is the most remarkable phenomena of this general flight. It is from the country where Jewish liberalism saw its birth and where nearly 600,000 Jews represent the largest population of the race in any European nation outside of Russia and Poland.

TO LIVE ELSEWHERE
No single development has brought this more sharply to the attention of the world than the decision of Albert Einstein, famous physicist, to live elsewhere while Hitler rides the saddle. Einstein is sailing from New York today to establish a residence in exile in Antwerp.

Jewish and Socialist doctors are banned from Berlin hospitals, the same "undesirable elements" are being excluded from the stock exchange, and action has begun to bar them from the practice of law. Jewish educators, many of them with reputations, are being put out of the schools.
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