Samuel Adamson

What wasan American family doing in Bialystock, Poland, in 1939? Six years earlier,Samuel Adamson sat on his farm porch in Texas, reading the newspaper. Samuelsure looked like a farmed. He was a wiry-framed 5' 9"with a body that alreadyshowed signed of the outdoors. The hot southern sun had left him tanned with anearthy-look, as he leaned forward with interest and what he was reading. His pipesat as stationary in his mouth as he sat stationary in an old woodenchair.  It was September of 1933.On the home-front Robert A. Chesebrough had died. He was the chemist whoinvented Vaseline. The 96‑year‑old attributed his long life to eating aspoonful of the sticky substance each day. Samuel raised an eyebrow andwhispered,     "Probably choked to death. "  It was also the year that prohibition in the United States cameto a jubilant end.    Overseas, the largestpolitical party in Germany, Adolf Hitler's Nazi party, announced a new programof voluntary sterilization. The program was for people who were "idiots orschizophrenics or if they suffer from depression, epilepsy or if they havephysical weaknesses, like deafness or blindness."             Samuelhad followed the political life of Hitler since the early the last 20s'.  Not that he sought out what the man wasdoing, but because whatever he did was news. Adolf Hitler had joined the GermanWorkers' Party in 1919 at age 30, and the very first time he spoke impressedhis hearers with his oratory skills. He recounted the experience in Mein Kemf. "Ispoke for thirty minutes, and what before I had simply felt within me, withoutin any way knowing it, was now proved by reality: I could speak! After thirtyminutes the people in the small room were electrified and the enthusiasm wasfirst expressed by the fact that my appeal to the self-sacrifice of thosepresent led to the donation of three hundred marks."The German Workers' Party began to promote Hitler as their mainattraction. He spoke passionately against the Treaty of Versailles withanti-Semitic outbursts, blaming the Jews for almost all of Germany's problems.Many empathized with his message and joined the German Workers' Party. 
To be continued.
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