Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hrer on the plea that the most sacred traditions of the Army and the celebrated Potsdam Code of officers' conduct had been flagrantly violated by the marriage of War Minister Field Marshal von Blomberg (TIME, Jan. 24). These extremely private nuptials occurred in a Berlin marriage clerk's office and the War Minister's witnesses were No. 1 Nazi Hitler, No. 2 Nazi Göring. Their presence was sufficient authority, so Blomberg appeared to have thought, for the match. But the generals snorted that not even a lieutenant would have been permitted to wed "socially impossible...
...typical of the way nearly all great matters in the Fatherland today turn upon personal contacts with Adolf Hitler and his personal reactions. Much of the time the Führer is inaccessible to even extremely prominent officials, mystically cogitating in his Bavarian mountain retreat some 400 miles from Berlin. To get the ear of the Leader, much less to secure one of his usually long-delayed decisions, is an achievement in itself, but recently Army Commander-in-Chief Colonel General von Fritsch and a group of his brother generals found a magnificent excuse for bursting in upon the Dictator...
...assistant, was profoundly upset by the reproof last week of General von Fritsch et al.-for clearly they were facing the Dictator with the fact that he had been the chief accomplice in uniting a German Field Marshal with the daughter of a masseuse. According to best-posted Berlin sources, the canny German generals used what they thought was their advantage over the crestfallen Fiihrer-who maintained that he had been "duped" by Bridegroom von Blomberg-to open a blunt discussion of the many points on which Army leaders have long differed with the Nazis...
...political Storm Troops, the Army sergeants up to now have been even harsher in knocking the conceit out of him. This attitude, raised from the brutality of a sergeant to the suavity of a general, was what Dictator Hitler encountered last week from General von Fritsch. and in Berlin it was believed that the generals urged...
...Weakening or withdrawal by the Fatherland from the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo "Axis," the Army being convinced that Italy will desert Germany in the next war as she did in 1915, and that in the Far East it is clearly to Germany's interest to build friendly relations and trade with China...