Word: german
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first place, CzechoSlovakia's German protectors served notice beforehand that no celebration would be tolerated. When the day came, and the Czechs celebrated anyhow, the Nazis turned Czech police loose on them. The police did their work efficiently and quietly, giving no indication that it might be distasteful. Only one Czech policeman had to be arrested by Schutzstaffeln...
...Slovak stooge President must frequently dance attendance in Berlin upon his master Adolf Hitler who last week gave Dr. Tiso the Grand Cross of the German Eagle and whose Nazi regime the Pope sternly denounced. Moreover, Priest Tiso as President is directly represented in Moscow by his own cousin, Urano Tiso, Slovak Minister to a regime which the Holy See not only refuses to recognize but considers the personification of antichrist. To complicate matters still further, Priest Tiso as an ecclesiastic is responsible to his Bishop, but the Bishop under the Slovak Constitution has to swear allegiance to President Tiso...
...Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk, was given the highly congenial task of plucking the Jews of Germany of $400,000,000, one-fifth of their estimated wealth. This capital levy was decreed by Economic Four-Year Plan Commissioner Field Marshal Goring as "punishment" for the assassination in Paris of German Embassy Secretary Ernst vom Rath by one Herschel Grynsz-pan, a young Polish Jew (TIME...
Nazis unofficially estimated the amount plucked from the Jews at about $300,000,000-a sum nearly twice as great as the total German charity collections of all kinds during the year. Nazis even admitted that, had not forced selling depressed the value of Jewish property and securities, the sums realized would probably have totaled the $400,000,000 originally demanded. Jews were informed last week that they must now "make up the difference for lost values," and Count Krosigk prepared to strip the Jewish community of about five per cent more of its wealth...
...thus cracking down on the Jews, the Führer apparently has secured sufficient funds to be able to forego the 20% capital levy on all German property threatened last February but which never materialized. However this year the immense Hitler Winter Relief Fund, to which Gentiles as well as Jews are virtually forced to contribute, is being spent at the discretion of Nazi bigwigs not only for charity but in prosecuting the war. Another money squeeze is the Volkswagon subscription. Since the summer of 1938 the organization created to manufacture Adolf Hitler's famed Volkswagon or "People...