Word: bavaria
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...secrets of the confessional, though they may browbeat Protestant parsons at pleasure. Finally the concordat, first ever signed by the Government of all Germany with the Holy See, supersedes, though it does not abolish the previous concordats existing between the Vatican and the German States of Prussia, Baden and Bavaria...
...hall and on an upper floor is a long timbered room known to tourists as the oldest fencing hall in Germany. Here for over 100 years members of the student fighting corps have staged their slashing bouts. The Republic's law against student dueling was lifted in Prussia, Bavaria and Baden three weeks ago (TIME, April 17). Heidelberg boys celebrated Adolf Hitler's birthday last week by holding the first public, open, officially recognized student duel in the University's 547 years...
...Dollfuss. He took back to Vienna with him the assurance that Italy would back his Government to the limit providing it gave up any idea of political union with Germany. Italy carefully pointed out that such a union would reduce Austria to the status of a German State like Bavaria...
...established but they can only be bestowed by the President. Prussia will once more have a House of Peers. New Peers will be created by the Premier on behalf of the Chancellor-in other words Handsome Adolf, like Napoleon, will found his own aristocracy. The Governments of Prussia, Baden, Bavaria rescinded all Republican laws against mensuren, the bloody, rapier duels of German student corps. Wrote the Volkischer Beobachter...
State's population 1%. Jewish children were driven from public schools. In Bavaria, Baden, Thuringia, Württemberg, Hesse, the Nazis forbade kosher slaughtering of meat. The National Government forbade any Jew to leave Germany without special police permission stamped on his passport. Chief Engineer Walter Schaeffer of the Rundfunk Wireless Organization was dismissed from his post, committed suicide. Albert Einstein's bank deposits ($5,955 in securities, $1,191 in cash) were confiscated. The Professor announced that he would renounce his German citizenship...