Word: braune
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Knowing that Old Paul was about to begin a triumphal tour of the liberated Rhineland, Dr. Otto Braun, Socialist Prime Minister of Prussia, refused to relax his rule that Stahlhelm members may not parade or demonstrate in Rhenish Prussia, which includes such an important city as Coblenz. "This is unequal treatment which I find unbearable!" wrote the President to Dr. Braun last week and threatened to omit Prussia's end of the Rhineland from his tour...
...Braun remained inflexible. Suddenly the acting Stahlhelm leaders, who had previously refused to treat with Socialist Braun, called upon him. They promised that if allowed to parade before Old Paul they would not thereafter stage military maneuvres in the Rhineland. This promise was really a Hindenburg-Stahlhelm capitulation. Dr. Braun accepted it, gave per-mission for the Stahlhelm parades. Disgruntled, Old Paul put Rhenish Prussia back on the itinerary of his triumphal tour (see below...