Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After the war, Germany was not merely a house divided, but a house politically atomized. All that stood between the German people and collapse was an old gentleman of 80, himself close to death-President Paul von Beneckendorff & von Hindenburg. "He called the Cabinet his General Staff, and the Chancellor his Chief of Staff," but "cooperated with Parliament in the manner of an old gentleman who likes order in his household." By virtue of Paragraph 48 of the Weimar Constitution, his chancellor could issue decrees "on the sole sanction of the President's signature." If the Reichstag objected...
...Parliament last week Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood announced that Britain was spending ?13,000,000 ($52,000,000) a day (or $2,166,666 every hour) on World War II. This was 50% greater than the peak spending of World...
None of Sir Kingsley's figures took into account U.S. Lend-Lease aid to Britain. When the Chancellor was through, Parliament voted its third ?1,000,000,000 war credit during...
Says Thyssen: "I have personally given altogether one million marks to the National Socialist party. Not more." He estimates that other contributors from "heavy industry" gave the movement two million marks annually in the last years before Hitler became chancellor...
...that, if Hitler does have Jewish blood, it comes from a distinguished family: "According to the published records, Hitler's grandmother had an illegitimate son, and this son was to become the father of Germany's present leader. But an inquiry once ordered by the late Austrian chancellor, Engelbert Dollfuss, disclosed that the Fuhrer's grandmother became pregnant during her employment as a servant in a Viennese family. . . . And the family . . . was none other than that of Baron Rothschild...