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.