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...only confirmed the lower court's sentence of Death upon Captain Taudien and Butcher Westermann, considered the ringleaders, but ordered the life sentences of Silk Tester Gautschi and Mechanic Müller stiffened to execution. Only Mechanic Schroeder, whose protestations of "my innocence, so help me, Mein Gott!" have been especially moving, was let off with ten years imprisonment...
...sheets. This took an hour. The seven injured were taken away to hospitals, one dying en route. A fresh engine was hitched to the Realmleader's special. ''It was a miracle!" cried the Nazi engineer. "A miracle that the train of our beloved Fuhrer did not leave the rails. Gott schiitzt Deutschland! God protects Germany...
...brave Bishop into his automobile, swept the police and S. S. troops aside, trotted beside the car all the way to his house shouting "Heil Meisser! Pfui Müller!" Another crowd stayed by the church, solemnly chanting Martin Luther's great "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott...
...power, and love, ere it were too late. In the distance was the rumble of vernal thunder. Starting the old fellow from his melancholy reverie came a knocking, one, two,--three. He rose hastily, slid back the bolt on the studded door, and shrank back. "Bin ich ein Gott!" he murmured...
...Unity of Germans has always been brought about at critical moments," boomed the President, "by the healthy spirit of Germans! "Whoever stands with me helps this spirit and gives me the happiest birthday present. Therefore-Vorwartsmit Gott!" By next morning astute campaigners for von Papen had adopted as their political slogan the President's reverent words: ''Forward with God!" This was more than many a German could stomach. If von Papen was stealing the nimbus of von Hindenburg, then revered Old Paul had himself ceased to be sacrosanct. Soon, for the first time in a German electoral...