Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unconditional Service?" In Berlin the acts of Adolf Hitler after the concordat was signed showed that he, reared a Catholic, still has a healthy respect for Rome. He promptly let out of jail all Catholic priests held on political charges. Moreover, he rescinded a whole batch of decrees under which Catholic organizations had been dissolved, permitted them to reorganize. These acts showed where the Chancellor's heart inclined, but his voice as usual was raised in triumphant bombast...
Most German clerical observers seemed to feel that the Nazi State had yielded just enough to Rome to avoid open struggle with a potentially dangerous enemy. Meanwhile non-Nazi Protestants were ruthlessly hounded last week. Theological students at the Berlin University were told: "You will never get a pastorate unless you join the 'German Christians'" (Nazi Protestants). All over Germany non-Nazi pastors received notice that "You have only until July 15th to join the German Christians." After that non-joiners were expected to be forcibly deprived of their pastorates...
Married. Max Schmeling, onetime heavyweight champion boxer; and Anny Ondra (born Anna Ondrakova), Czech musicomedy and cinemactress; in Berlin...
...Centrist party a piece of gratuitous advice it is this: CLOSE YOUR SHOP. There are no more customers coming your way! If we remove the Centrist party from the realm of politics we shall have done the Catholic Church a good service." Thus incited, Nazi police raided in Berlin six Catholic organizations whose headquarters they padlocked: the Catholic Peace League; Catholic Storm Troop; Windhorst League; Flock of the Cross; Peoples Union of Catholic Germany and Catholic Young Men's Association. With religious frenzy mounting, half-naked Nazis appeared in Berlin wearing strips of animal skins and ancient Teutonic horned...
...party are left unmolested with their schaffendes wealth. Last week Germany's tycoons, whose business is increasingly regulated by the Ministry of Economics, shivered at the prospect that so loose and ingenuous a thinker as Herr Feder should have so much power. German industry today is described by Berlin economists as "stagnant." It needs the life blood of fresh capital. German capitalists, whose deposits abroad run into billions, are unlikely to bring much of this money home while they do not know from one day to the next whether a man's capital is really schaffendes and good...