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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...
...been the chief accomplice in uniting a German Field Marshal with the daughter of a masseuse. According to best-posted Berlin sources, the canny German generals used what they thought was their advantage over the crestfallen Fiihrer-who maintained that he had been "duped" by Bridegroom von Blomberg-to open a blunt discussion of the many points on which Army leaders have long differed with the Nazis...
...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...