Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pistol duel "unto death." The pistol challenger is Prisoner Max von Prittwitz, a relative of Germany's onetime Ambassador to the U. S. Baron Friedrich von Prittwitz und Gaffron. "I think it is amusing for a police chief to accept challenges from men he is forced to arrest." chuckled Chief Diels. "I love to fight. There's no grander feeling than beating your man in a fair fight. I shall fight them all! As to the pistol duel 'unto death' - well, that's fate...
...Suppression by decree of the immunity from arrest of Reichstag Deputies contained in Article 37 of the German Constitution, after which Nazi police jailed last week such prominent Socialist Deputies as Jewish Dr. Paul Löbe, for twelve years Speaker of the Reichstag who once called Herr Hitler "that Slovene with bloody fingers...
Habicht v. Wasserback. As a member of the Austrian Parliament the Chief Austrian Nazi, Alfred Frauenfeld, was immune to arrest. Not so Handsome Adolf's personal liaison officer in Vienna, Theodor Habicht. Weeks ago Chancellor Hitler tried to make Herr Habicht immune from arrest by appointing him German Legation Press Attache in Vienna, but the Austrian Government refused him diplomatic immunity. Last week he was routed out of bed at six in the morning. Police seized numbers of incriminating documents...
When Nazi policemen threatened to kick the door down Dr. Wasserback submitted to arrest. In London Millimetternich-Dollfuss made protest to the Chief German Delegate and arranged for another formal protest from the Papal Nuncio in Berlin. Then, sure of the world's sympathy, he went back to bed. Dr. Wasser-back was released in a few hours, ordered from the country. Embarrassed Nazis ordered the German Press to suppress all mention of his arrest...
...here he in turn is tricked, by Matillda, (Magda Snyder) adopted daughter of the Mayor, who proves far too clever to be fooled long by Ferraro's artifice. She soon discovers their scheme and unfortunately the local police are not far behind, for that evening they arrest Ferraro, posing as his friend, the stranger, who is wanted in four countries...