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Friday, October 19, 1984/The Battalion/Page 7 Nazis primarily youth wanting country rebuilt By MICHELE FURLONG Reporter Nazism was not a class movement but a generational revolt, history professor Dr. Paul Madden said Tmursclay. 1 The lecture was sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta, a history honor so ciety, and the Department of His tory. Madden, an associate professor of history at Hardin-Simmons Univer sity in Abilene, wrote his dissertation on the social class origins of the Nazi Party. Madden said he, like most people, lias a “fascination-repulsion attrac tion toward Nazism.” Madden said he was always taught the Nazi Party was made up of lower middle-class people who joined the Party for economic reasons. But Nazism represented the youth of Germany intent on rebuild- jing Germany after World War I, he said. | “Sure Hitler had great charisma, but it was the rhnk and file members — the success of those faceless men who supported the Nazi Party —that brought Hitler to power,” Madden said. Madden sought to discover who were the hard-core Nazis. He researched the Nazi Party B Membership Cards from 1919-1933 ■ and through a representative sam- B pie, sought to find the social class B origins of the members. / I “I discovered the middle class had 4 an absolute majority every year, yet 1 there was a sizeable contingent of the working class,” he said. “The elites — businessmen and people from the higher bureaucracy — sup ported Hitler in all elections and were over-represented.” Madden suggested the Nazi ap peal was much wider and reached a greater variety of people than every one is led to believe. “Nazism appealed to a certain mentality within the German public- at-large,” he said. “To quote Hitler, the Nazi propo- ganda was directed toward the he roic instinct of people,” he said. The Nazis gained much of their support from the middle class, Mad den said. “Hitler had an mesmeric effect on the Germans,” he said. “The looks on their faces reflect they are view ing the Messiah, and hearing the word from on high.” Madden said Hitler had the ap pearance of an ordinary man, yet his ability to speak and inspire his audi ence was his power. “Hitler had the answer to all of the questions of the German peo ple,” Madden said. He appealed to the anti-Semitism of the people and made the Jews the scapegoat for all of the war prob lems, Madden said. He played on the peoples’ frustrated nationalism and promised to overthrow the Treaty of Versailles, regain lost ter ritory and instill pride in Germany and its people. Week recognizes wood contribution By MICHELE FURLONG Reporter || Oct. 21-27 has been designated National Forest Products Week in recognition of the American forests’ contribution of wood and wood products to the United States and [the world. “Our nation’s abundant forests I are an extraordinary renewable nat- [ural resource that has served us in so tiany vital respects,” said Dr. Mike |,\Valterscheidt, forestry specialist vith the Texas Agricultural Exten- ['sion Service at Texas A&M. “In addition to producing wood [•and paper products,” he said, “fo- [rests produce enormous environ- Imentai benefits such as watershed land wildlife protection and recre- [ational opportunities for Americans [of all ages who love the outdoors. [“The forestry industry makes a [valuable contribution to the nation’s economic well-being and to provid- | ing homes for our people.” The Forest Product Lab in Lufkin [is a division of the Texas Forest Service. The facility conducts re search and development programs and seminars, and has the most com plete library on wood products and their use in the state, Dewayne Wel don, facility head, said. The lab has developed more effi- Icient ways of manufacturing, drying WHAT A DEAL! Scrambled Egg Breakfast 2 eggs, sausage Texas Toast 99C 6:30 a.m. -10:30 a.m. WHATABURGER 105 Dominik 1101 Texas Ave. Offer good thru Nov. 14, 1984 you know the story... tACENERENTOLA THE CINDERELLA STORY ...now see the opera! MSC OPAS OCTOBER 29 TICKETS: 845-1234 Slouch By Jim Earle ‘Man, that sure does save on cups!’ Sypcon Local builders go bankrupt and preserving wood and wood products, Weldon said. With the help of computer scan ning and decision-making, compa nies are now able to get the greatest possible yield from logs in their mills, he said. The lab has helped lower opera tion costs for product manufacturers by developing a cheaper method of drying wood products and using wood resdidues as an energy source, he said. The lab develops and tests new wood coatings, preservatives and fire retardent treatments of existing wood structures and materials. Through proper construction and treatment, homeowners can extend the life, usefulness and safety of wood buildings desks, floors and roofs, he said. If both public And privately owned forestland is properly man aged, American forests can be the most productive in the world, Wal- terscheidt said. Industry owns only 14 percent of of the 482 million acres of commer cial farmland but provides more than 30 percent of the national har vest, he said. Private landowners own 58 per cent and supply 48 percent, while the government owns 28 percent and supplies 22 percent. By TRENT LEOPOLD Staff Writer Sypcon Construction Corp., a lo cal ousiness and builders of several area apartment complexes including Huntington and Forest Creek, filed for bankruptcy Oct. 1. Since then, former residents of Sypcon-managed property have re ported difficulties getting their de posit money refunded. Fausto Bogran, a graduate agri cultural engineering student at Texas A&M, said he has not re ceived his $200 deposit since moving out of the complex 2 months ago, and knows of at least 8 others wno have had the same problem. “Last summer I gave the manager of Huntington Apartments a written notice I was moving out in thirty days and was expecting to receive my deposit money,” Bogran said. “I was surprised when they told me I would have to wait 6 months for my money because they were trying to sell the complex.” Bogran has since filed a lawsuit against Sypcon, but feels he will not be able to get his money back since the corporation filed for bank ruptcy. Bogran said he received a letter from Bryan attorney Larry Catlin af ter he filed the lawsuit. “Catlin reassured me I would get my money back by the end of this month, but I don’t believe him,” Bo gran said. “I don’t believe Catlin since the company has now filed for bankruptcy. “It cost me $27 to file in small claims court and I feel I have been taken advantage of by the manage ment, who told me to wait until they could eventually file for bankrupt- c y ".. Filing for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 is designed to protect the company filing from creditors while the company attempts to reorganize. Local Sypcon officials would not comment on their actions Thursday, but said attorneys in Houston could , , “speak.for thern.” ; , . v A , Arthur Stewart, a Houston-based attorney representing Sypcorl Corp., said he was “pretty sure” efforts are now being directed toward selling the corporation although he added the attorney “officially handling the case” was out of town. Sypcon also manages Brookwood and Forest Creek apartments. Son guilty of making, owning deadly bomb United Press International DALLAS — The stepson of a for mer Ku Klux Klansman who died when a bomb planted in a newspa per box exploded in his face was convicted Thursday on bomb mak ing charges. Marshall “Dodie” Williams, 21, was found guilty of illegally making and possessing the pipe bomb that killed Ward Keeton. Keeton was slain last January when he walked to a booby trapped newspaper box near his north Dallas apartment, opened it to pick up his morning paper and the bomb ex ploded. An FBI agent testified Wednes day that Keeton was a leader of the Ku Klux Klan in North Texas dur ing the 1970s and served as an FBI informant. Defense attorneys tried to argue that the Klan might be be hind the slaying. But prosecutor Shirley Baccus- Lobel said Williams’ mother, Clara Keeton, the wife of the victim, hinted when questioned that she wanted her husband dead and used Williams to kill him. 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