Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bubbling with elation, Dr. Hans Lammers, Secretary of State to the Realmleader, announced that Adolf Hitler now considers himself German Chief Executive for life (i.e. German emperor in all but name). Addressing the Berlin Civil Service Academy, Dr. Lammers advised them that "Cabinet ministers are now responsible only to the Leader and no longer to the Reichstag. The new fealty oath eliminates the possibility of a minister voting against the Leader...
...arrive without troops was Adolf Hitler's blustering Air Minister and Premier of Prussia, General Hermann Wilhelm Göring. He embarrassed everyone by hailing King Alexander as a dictator-which indeed His Majesty was-and strongly implying that the Jugoslav Government had friendly ties with Nazi Berlin. In ruthless, effective Balkan fashion the police of Belgrade proceeded to make Alexander's funeral safe. Over 6,500 suspects and near-suspects were thrown into jail. Lest someone try to take a crack at General Goring every German immigrant in the capital was put under house arrest. Despite incessant...
Next day, as kings and statesmen left Belgrade by train and as General Goring piloted his own trimotored plane back to Berlin, King Peter vanished into the guarded precincts of the Jugoslav Court and what he did there would have remained unknown had not the sister-in-law of one of his mother's ladies-in-waiting blabbed. According to Mrs. Slavko Gruitch (née Mabel Dunlop of Clarksburg, W. Va.), the 11-year-old King broke the news of Alexander's death to his brothers Prince Tomislav, 7, and Prince Andreja, 5, who had been kept...
Died. Field Marshal Alexander von Kluck, 88, spearhead of the German onslaught on Paris in 1914; of old age; in Berlin. On the German right wing, he marched with startling swiftness through Belgium and northern France. Almost in sight of Paris but separated from von Billow's army and unable to keep communications open, he was beaten at the Marne and subsequently blamed by some tacticians for the German retreat. Few months later he was wounded and retired...
...Berlin, Oct. 26--Opponents of Nazification of the German Evangelical Church won a preliminary victory tonight with the resignation of August Jaeger, Nazllay counsellor, from the church government of Reichsbishop Ludwig Mueller...