Yes, danger from within and from without. We need law
and order. Without law and order our nation cannot survive.
Elect us and we
shall restore law and order. We will be respected by the nations of the world
for law and order. Without law and order, our republic will fall. -- Adolph
Hitler, 1932.
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Los Angeles Free Press, vol. 5, no. 49, issue 229, Dec. 5-12,
1968, p. 5
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This fake Adolf Hitler quote, or variations of it,
appeared often in American underground and anti-war newspapers from 1969 to
1971, an era of civil unrest when many conservative politicians ran on
law-and-order platforms. Paul F. Boller, Jr. and John George, in They Never Said It (Oxford University
Press, 1989), state that the quote “originally appeared in an obscure Communist
periodical,” but they neglect to name the source.
The following example from Fatigue Press (Fort Hood, Austin, Texas), issue 14, 1969, p. 6,
features a caricature of President Nixon in a Nazi uniform.
In the poster below, a photo of Nixon is altered to make
him appear like Hitler.
This cartoon is unusual in claiming that Hitler said
this in 1931. Underwood (St. Louis,
MO), vol. 1, no. 3, May 1970, p. 3; Your Military
Left (San Antonio, Texas), vol. 1, no. 4, Oct. 1971, p. 12. The crudely
redrawn version is from Out Now (Long
Beach, CA), vol. 1, no. 1, May 1970.
Sometimes the
quote is presented in the form of a test. [Top] Shakedown (Fort Dix, Wrightstown, NJ), vol. 1, no. 4, 6 June 1969,
pp. 6, 3. [Bottom] We Got the Brass (Boulogne,
France), no. 1, 1969, p. 6.
All the periodicals above can be
accessed at Independent Voices.
For writer Jerome
Beatty Jr.’s part in promulgating this quote, see his article “Funny Stories,” Esquire, November 1970, 44, 46.
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