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Adolf Hitler was by no means the only bigwig in Garmisch-Partenkirchen last week. His entourage included Air Minister Göring, Minister of Propaganda Goebbels, War Minister von Blomberg, Julius Streicher, Interior Minister Frick, Storm Troop Leader Lutze and almost every other important Nazi in Germany. Nonetheless, Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall of the New York Times, which last autumn gave the loudest bursts of publicity to Jeremiah T. Mahoney's efforts to have the U. S. withdraw from the 1936 Olympic Games (TIME, Nov. 4), felt justified in writing: ". . . Not the slightest evidence of religious, political or racial...
Tucked away in a copy of the Official Gazette, not immediately issued last week but finally released, was a new Cabinet decree law fully as basic as anything in the so-called new Constitution. It was signed by Herr Hitler and the War Minister, General Werner von Blomberg. It annuls a regulation which has stood since Kaiser Wilhelm provided on March 19, 1914 that, in principle, the German Army shall not be used for police purposes against German citizens. The new Hitler-Blomberg decree fatefully empowers the Army to take German law & order into its hands, the Realmleader still being...
...Blomberg supporting the decrees in their present form, Herr Hitler demanded that they be sent back for redrafting. This was done by Dr. Gerhard Wagner, head of the German Physicians' Association, who came back with a draft recommending that "all who had ever been intimate with Jews should be counted in with Jews" and as such feel the full weight of the decrees. This draft Adolf Hitler approved but the Army, represented by War Minister General Werner von Blomberg, fought desperately against it, since a good many swank Prussian officers have taken Jewish wives to enable themselves...
...Breaking off his South German rustication at last, the Realmleader sped north to Kiel this week, watched naval war games from the flagship Schleswig- Holstein with Defense Minister General Werner von Blomberg and No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Air Minister and Prussian Premier...
...Government's disposal, necessary purchases could be made abroad of materials now urgently needed by Realmleader Hitler's fast expanding Army, Navy and Air Force. Last week in Berlin most businessmen agreed that the dumping fund was set up chiefly because German War Minister General Werner von Blomberg has been loudly complaining that he cannot get together a proper lighting force if obliged to equip it with German Ersatz (substitute) materials...