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Bombs on Buchenwalde. According to Goebbels, Allied bombs fell on the Buchenwalde concentration camp near Weimar, killing Ernst Thälmann, pre-Hitler Communist leader, Dr. Rudolf Breitscheid, Social Democratic Prussian Minister of the Interior in the days of the Weimar Republic. According to the Allies, no raid was made on Weimar that day. According to neutrals, the Luftwaffe did the job, destroyed some 7,500 inmates. But few doubted that 58-year-old Thälmann, who polled five million votes for President in 1932 and has spent eleven years in concentration camps, was dead. Himmler's purge...
...from the official residence of the Reichstag President, Prussia's barrel-chested Premier Hermann Wilhelm Göring. A onetime Police President of Berlin testified that 1,500 arresting warrants were ready for use immediately after the fire. Liberal Editor Georg Bernhard and Social Democrat Chairman Dr. Rudolf Breitscheid agreed that the Nazis were the only party that could have benefited from the Reichstag fire, that Communists would have set it only if "the party executives had all gone...
...Breitscheid (Socialist) opened debate against the Government. He mentioned in the course of his speech that a tariff war between Germany and France would be fatal for Premier Herriot...
...Retorted Breitscheid with heat: "That is a scoundrelly thing to say!" Cries of "Barmat!" (Reference to an impending trial of Barmat Brothers, bankers, scandals involving whom are said to implicate several leading Socialists...
Continued Dr. Breitscheid, turning his attention directly to the Government : ''Germany is now on the road toward the restoration of the old regime...