Word: brownshirted
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...socialite German university Studenten Korps have always been Jew-haters and fierce nationalists, they championed Adolf Hitler from the start. When his Munich beer hall Putsch fizzled in 1923 and Leader Hitler was clapped into a fortress, loyal "Nazi cells" in seven German universities were among the few brownshirt organizations to carry on. Last week came the first open rift between Korpstudenten and a Chancellor who, as one of his first acts, legalized their gory duels...
...German Vice Chancellor are even more nominal than those of a U. S. Vice President, Herr von Papen was in no hurry to have a new building found for his Vice Chancellory. He urbanely left his old offices to Storm Troop Chief Viktor Lutze who kept peppering brownshirt Storm Troopers every few hours with new orders. They must not wear their uniforms during July, must not assemble, must not question or dispute the Government's massacre methods in wiping out "the mutiny of a few Storm Troop leaders, a mutiny in which the rank and file were not involved...
...stamping out which followed scores of Storm Troop leaders, brownshirt potentates whose word has been law in their bailiwicks, were either shot by firing squads or were left alone in prison with a revolver which they used to commit suicide. The chancellor tried his hardest to make Col. Roehm shoot himself, twice sent him a pistol which came back with the defy, "If I am shot Hitler will have to do it himself...
...week von Papen offered his resignation to Herr Hitler who refused it with excited protestations. This evident shakiness in high Nazi places emboldened German army officers to start rumors that Defense Minister General Werner von Blomberg might attempt a monarchist coup. But with 2,000,000 Nazis enrolled as brownshirt troopers. many of them armed, few Germans believed that any Hindenburg henchman would thus risk civil war. It seemed enough for the present to give Adolf Hitler the scare of his career...
...Nazi eyes Dr. Goebbels loomed more than ever a possible successor to Herr Hitler as he rushed among the masses last week and drew cheers from large brownshirt gatherings in Berlin with attacks plainly meant for von Papen and his Hindenburg ilk. "My party comrades," cried Dr. Goebbels, "only the National Socialist party has the right to criticize. To all others I deny that right. If we had relied upon those suave cavaliers who see in National Socialism only a transitory phenomenon, Germany would have been lost. The importance of these persons should not be overestimated. If we stamp...