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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Brown Trout & Bitterness | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Brown Trout & Bitterness | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

...first sennight of Adolf Hitler's open opposition to the Junker Cabinet of Chancellor von Papen. Government officials lost no time in putting this opposition to the test. Acting under Defense Minister von Schleicher's emergency decree against terrorism, five Nazis were sentenced to death at Beuthen, Silesia, for so beating a Communist workman named Pietzruch that he died of wounds. That there should be no charge of discrimination, several members of the republican Reichsbanner were imprisoned for from 18 months to four years for brutality in other Silesian riots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Test | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

Hollow-eyed, footsore, prematurely aged, Rudolf Kutz and Johann Mischalski stumbled into Beuthen, German Silesia last week, sought out the homes they had left 15 years before. They were World War prisoners. For the past 15 months they have made their way from a prison camp in northern Siberia through Moscow, to Kovno, then over the Polish border to Warsaw and southwest to Silesia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Prisoners | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

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