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...scientists fled too; but old Max Planck stayed behind. In 1934 (he was 76), he went in person to Hitler, to demand an end of Jewish persecution. Hitler turned his back while the old man talked. The following year, Planck was removed from the presidency of the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft (a scientific society). When he celebrated his 80th birthday in 1938, the Government sent no representative...
...radio reporters in Berlin were last week denied the "cooperation" of the Reichsrundfunk Gesellschaft (German Radio Co.): i.e., put off the air sine die. This looked like a Nazi effort to throw the last punch, because two of the correspondents (Mutual's Dickson, NBC's Dreier) had already refused to broadcast and the third (CBS's Smith) was on the point of doing so. Their more or less fed-up opinion...
...their home stations, caught the cultured enemy accents of First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill himself, coming over the same Nazi radio that frequently refers to him as British First Lord of the Sea Bottom. Before he had talked for long, listeners got the idea. Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft was up to a slick trick in the European radio war of harsh words. As Mr. Churchill's voice purred on, it was suddenly interrupted by a tremendous clamor of sound-effect boos & catcalls. Then the Nazi announcer spoke up. "This," he explained, "is the record of how Mr. Churchill...
...twenties Jeidels, as boss of Germany's No. 1 investment bank, the Berliner Handels Gesellschaft. was one of Schacht's closest cronies. No chain store bank with a branch on every other street corner was the Handels Gesellschaft. Only the biggest of big businesses were its customers, and they went to it in Berlin...
Tabulated last week, the figures for the period from May 21 to July 1 showed that Berlin's Central Broadcasting Station of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (German Broadcasting Co.) put on the air 922 attacks on the Czechoslovak republic, 194 criticisms of President Eduard Benes or the Prague government, attacked Czechoslovak officials and law courts 172 times, insulted the honor of the Czechoslovak Army 106 times. Henlein party-propaganda broadcasts from German stations during the same period were clocked at 336, the declaration that Communists rule Czechoslovakia...