Word: bismarcks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marshal von Hindenburg (who took 27 years to advance the same distance). Cautious Germans, secretly fearing the Nazi experiment, have long consoled themselves with the thought that the Reichswehr was not yet completely Nazified, that it was entirely loyal to the old Field Marshal. Only twice before, to Chancellors Bismarck and Bethmann-Hollweg, has such military honor come to any German holding a civilian office. Flaunted before the German people, Hermann Goring's new trousers were a symbol of the Army's belief in Hitlerism...
Before the initialing took place German Catholics were forced to bow the political knee to Adolf Hitler, hoping all the while that the concordat would safeguard their religious rights. As a peace offering to the Nazis, they dissolved their Catholic Centre Party, the Party which fought Prince Bismarck so stoutly three generations ago. the Party which gave to the German Republic one of its greatest Chancellors, pale, ascetic, tremendously hard-working Bachelor Heinrich Brüning (TIME, April 7, 1930 et seq.). Seventy-three Catholic Centre Deputies of the German Reichstag and 68 in the Prussian Diet were refused permission...
...President von Hindenburg. Joyously they received orders to make Germany at once what Chancellor Hitler called a "Totalitarian (One Party) State." Then they rushed clown from the roof garden to terrify the Fatherland with a series of pouncing raids which resulted in taking into custody even Herbert von Bismarck, grandnephew of the late famed Iron Chancellor...
Calling the green Battle Ringers contemptuously Frösche ("frogs"),* Nazi brownshirts padlocked their headquarters, carried off "Frog" Herbert von Bismarck for a night of grilling questions. Ironically the presses of Frog Chief Dr. Alfred Hugenberg. the Fatherland's newspaper tycoon who made World news fortnight ago by demanding the return to Germany of her pre-War colonies by the London Conference (see p. 17). were obliged to print with an approving tone last week that "The Chancellor received Dr. Hugenberg tonight with no others present and explained to him the reasons for the Battle Ring's suppression...
Since the rights of free speech, public assembly and inviolability of the home have long been suppressed, here was more power in the Chancellery than even Bismarck dreamed of, but careful investigation showed that canny old Paul von Hindenburg still held two aces up his detachable cuffs: The President still has power to dismiss any or all members of the Cabinet including Handsome Adolf himself. He still remains Commander-in-Chief of the Reichswehr, with sole power to proclaim martial law. The Reichswehr is not yet a Nazi organization. If told to turn Adolf Hitler out of office it could...