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Gareth leaves Lloyd George in 1933

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 But dramatic events were occurring in Germany and so in late January and early February 1933 Gareth visited a country he knew extremely well. He had visited Germany each year from 1922 – a date when the Deutsch Mark was so low in value that it is said he made the whole journey for £5.  He was present in Leipzig the day Adolf Hitler was made Chancellor and a few days later flew with the dictator in his famous plane ‘Richthofen’ to Frankfurt. .  There, Gareth was present at the great rally where the newly appointed Fuehrer of the ‘Vaterland’ was given a tumultuous reception and where the hall echoed to the ovation given to the Dictator’s stirring speech.  The article that Gareth wrote about his flight with Hitler is a classic piece of writing.[i]

 

“If this aeroplane should crash the whole history of Europe would be changed. For a few feet away sits Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of Germany and leader of the most volcanic nationalist awakening which the world has seen.”

 

It was in the next month, March 1933 that Gareth made his third and final visit to the U.S.S.R. and to Ukraine to investigate the reports that had filtered through of the terrible starvation to the city of London. 

 


[i] Gareth Jones, ‘With Hitler Across Germany’. The Western Mail, 28 February, 1933 p.6.

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