Word: blomberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Daughter of a Masseuse! The generals invaded the august presence of the Führer on the plea that the most sacred traditions of the Army and the celebrated Potsdam Code of officers' conduct had been flagrantly violated by the marriage of War Minister Field Marshal von Blomberg (TIME, Jan. 24). These extremely private nuptials occurred in a Berlin marriage clerk's office and the War Minister's witnesses were No. 1 Nazi Hitler, No. 2 Nazi Göring. Their presence was sufficient authority, so Blomberg appeared to have thought, for the match. But the generals...
...Minister Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg...
...nation, even for Germany, highly militarized though she is. To be able to carry this change through in a matter of hours if necessary, Chancellor Hitler last week created a "permanent economic general staff" headed by slim, taciturn, 59-year-old War Minister Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg...
Some 100 "economic defense führers" will be named to this staff by Blomberg, to work with Germany's military keymen, Colonel General Werner von Fritsch (chief of the Army general staff), Admiral General Erich Raeder (Navy Minister), stanch-bellied' Colonel General Hermann Wilhelm Goring (Air Minister & economic dictator). They will blueprint Germany's economic, industrial life and plan for complete and immediate mobilization in the event of. war. The Nazi object: preparation for "total war"-i. e., a fight in which every business, factory, mine is part of the German military machine...
Next visitor from Germany to Rome was scheduled to be the Nazi War Minister, Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg. As though to show his northern friends-and England and France too-that he means business, II Duce last week stood over the Italian Parliament while his undersecretaries for War, Navy, and Air demanded and got appropriations totaling $38,240,000 more than last year when Italy was still at war. And besides ordering a press and newsreel boycott of Britain's Coronation, II Duce let out two other announcements so timed as to be interpreted at Whitehall as "aggressively...