Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Today through Hitler's virtual dictatorship, Germany for the first time in all history is practically united. It is organically united through the substitution of central authority at Berlin in place of local authority in seventeen different states. It is even united in sentiment in the sense that a terrorized minority fears to oppose the triumphant National Socialists...
...bullet-riddled body of Erik Jan Hanussen (born Steinschneider) was found in a wood near Bayreuth last week. Herr Hanussen was one of Europe's best known fortunetellers; he predicted the rise of Adolf Hitler several years ago. Three weeks ago he suddenly quit a vaudeville engagement in Berlin "because of an impending nervous breakdown...
Rotter. The Rotter Brothers, Jewish theatre owners and musicomedy producers, once most prosperous, now bankrupt, fled Berlin in January. In the Principality of Liechtenstein last week they were ambushed by six young Germans, apparently Nazis. Alfred Rotter and his wife jumped over a cliff to death to avoid kidnapping. Franz Rotter, handcuffed, sprang from the kidnappers' car, broke his shoulder...
This decree not only tied all power to Berlin but it cut short the hope of Bavarian and Saxon royalists to re-establish their own dynasties by electing the Princes statthalters...
...Foreign Press Association, founded in 1906, enrols all the accredited foreign correspondents in Berlin. At the present time it includes about 135 men from 20 countries. Its president is Edgar Ansel Mowrer, who wrote last winter a shrewd analysis of the growth of reaction in Germany entitled Germany Puts the Clock Back. Last week President Mowrer called a sudden meeting of the Association. He reported that the German Government did not like his book. All sorts of wires were being pulled to force his resignation. Before returning to the U. S., Ambassador Sackett had called at the German Foreign Office...