Word: braune
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jews had been killed. Physical violence was on the wane, though for a few days, after the Reichstag election March 5. hundreds of Jews were beaten, Jewish homes raided. Conductor Bruno Walter was banned from the concert platform. Former Socialist Premier Braun of Prussia fled to Switzerland. Reports of the torturing to death of one Otto Lenz, Jewish storekeeper in Straubing, Bavaria, seemed authentic. Far more common than actual attacks on Jews was their dismissal from government and business posts and the picketing and boycotting of their stores. Nazi picketing was not limited to Jewish shops. U. S.-owned Woolworth...
...nearly all Communist Deputies and many Socialist Deputies were in jail. The Hitler Government announced that no Communist Deputies (even should they break jail) would be admitted to the Reichstag. Most Socialist Deputies were expected to stay away, lest they be harmed. The bravest Socialist (by reputation), Dr. Otto Braun, Premier of Prussia, once famed as "The Lion of Social Democracy," fled to Switzerland where he was still so terrified that he telegraphed to Berlin his resignation from the Prussian Diet and from the German Reichstag...
Previously Premier Braun & Cabinet had petitioned the German Supreme Court to declare unconstitutional the German Government's seizure of the Prussian State Government (TIME, Feb. 13). Last week the panic-palsied petitioners withdrew their petition-a great convenience to the Supreme Court...
Suddenly Berlin police demanded the passports of two members of the vanished Braun Cabinet, famed Karl Severing, one-time Prussian Minister of Interior (which made him in 1920-26 and 1930-32 the head of Berlin's and Prussia's police) and onetime Prussian Minister of Education Adolf Grimme. The police said they wanted to "examine'' the passports, refused to say why. Pale green with fear...
Pale with fury, Herr Braun served notice that he will again appeal to the Supreme Court...