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...September." Author "Burckhardt" pictured the once All-Highest pacing up and down and throwing off such amazing indiscretions as: "There's a man alone, without family, without children, without God. Why should he be human? . . . He has got rid of, or even killed . . . Papen, Schleicher, Neurath-and even Blomberg. He has nothing left but a bunch of shirted gangsters...
Married. Colonel-General Walther von Brauchitsch, 57, Commander-in-Chief of the German Army; and Charlotte Schmidt, daughter of a retired Silesian judge; in Salzbrunn, Germany. General von Brau-chitsch's marriage was socially "possible." Last January Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg married ("impossibly") a carpenter's daughter, lost his job as War Minister a month later...
Meanwhile the docile German people were permitted to learn almost nothing of all this. They were even told in Adolf Hitler's personal newsorgan, the Völkischer Beobachter, that Field Marshal von Blomberg was in Berlin with the Führer last week when he was in fact honeymooning at the Hotel Quisisana, Capri, Italy. At German frontiers bales of foreign newspapers were snatched off every arriving train, confiscated, destroyed. Fridericus, a typical Nazi Party newspaper, front-paged an editorial keynoting: "How smoothly everything goes in the Reich compared with conditions in America...
Hitler Über Alles. Once more Adolf Hitler, advised by his inscrutable intuition, staked everything on a Nazi throw. The Fuhrer announced not only that he accepted the resignations of Field Marshal von Blomberg and General von Fritsch but also that he assumed control of the War Ministry himself and further-to make his defiant mood unmistakable-accepted the resignation of Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath, appointing to replace him Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, the chief Nazi architect of the anti-Communist pact of Germany, Japan and Italy (TIME...
...Berlin this week, Adolf Hitler had won by a single bold stroke a major victory of his career. It was particularly noticed that he had not made General Göring his War Minister. Instead the No. 2 Nazi, who has long and almost openly aspired to succeed Blomberg both as War Minister and as Field Marshal, was fobbed off last week by simply making him a Field Marshal, today the only one in Germany on active service. So far as "impossible" wives are concerned, Göring tied the Potsdam Code into pretzel shape and swallowed it when...