Word: beuthen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rollicking Storm Troopers swept into a barber shop at Beuthen near the German-Polish frontier last week, seized pretty Manicurist Lotte Feingraeber. "Are you engaged to a Jew? Don't lie to us!" they roared. "Ja" admitted Lotte Feingraeber...
With a will the Nazi youths shaved the manicurist bald as an owl. Smearing her with tar, they hung around her neck a sign I PROSTITUTED MYSELF TO A JEW, dragged her up & down the streets of Beuthen until they were tired, finally...
...kept the chief Nazi pressagent, a former Manhattan print dealer named Ernst Franz Hanfstaengl, busy for two days issuing angry denials. The story was inspired apparently by two bad-tempered and most inopportune messages which the bristle-lipped leader issued immediately after live Nazis were sentenced to death at Beuthen, Silesia fortnight ago for beating a Communist to death (TIME, Aug. 29). First message was to the murderers themselves to whose defense he had already sent his own lawyer...
...tart-tongued Goebbels coined the bon mot of the week at the expense of General von Schleicher: "Bayonets may be good for lots of things, but one cannot sit on them forever." The quotation that caused his muzzling last week was angrier and not so funny. Writing of the Beuthen death sentences he said...
...hostile Reichstag, last week they tried another showdown. There were many Cabinet conferences, then lean Chancellor Franz von Papen went down to Münster to make a speech before the Westphalian Peasants' Congress. He minced no words. First came an attack on Handsome Adolf for his manifesto on the Beuthen death sentences (see above...