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...desk in the War Office fingering a paper in his desk drawer which he has had drawn up for days. If published, it will declare martial law throughout Germany, and the indefinite suspension of the Reichstag and parliamentary government. Pleasant, unassuming Kurt von Schleicher was born in Brandenburg, not far from Berlin, in 1882. In 1900 he entered the army at the age of 18. in the midst of the great final period of the German Empire. Because of the von in his name and his family connections he was able to get a commission in the Third Guard Regiment...
...execution of the measures requisite for restoring public serenity the entire police force of the designated district [Berlin and the province of Brandenburg] is put under the person clothed with executive power...
History 28 covers, with some detail, the history of modern Germany from its earliest beginnings in Brandenburg to the present day and minute. No phase of it is left untouched; Professor Fay amply discusses the military, political, economic, and social aspects of Germany's development, without making a mere chronological chart of names and dates; and his technical knowledge of military warfare enables him to give interesting, whether or not important, analyses of numerous battles and campaigns...
...distant after which any insubordinate gangster would be expelled from the ranks. Expelled last week, however, were Storm Captain Stennes and two aides. Glowering, they prepared to doff the swastika (armband Hitler emblem. See cut). But they also talked of founding a new party, said that storm commanders in Brandenburg. Pomerania. Mecklenburg and East Prussia had promised to join them...
...General Aviation Corp. (dominated by General Motors), which was interested in no South American flight. Dr. Claude Dornier left the craft in La Coruna, Spain and hurried to Berlin, supposedly to ask the transportation ministry to back him in the new venture. Even before he arrived, Air Director Ernst Brandenburg made known that the answer would be: "No funds available." Definite information was scanty...