Word: groener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fighting every inch of the way, three men stood out against the advance of Fascism in Germany last week: pale, bespectacled Chancellor Heinrich Bruning; white-haired Paul von Hindenburg; and their faithful lieutenant, Minister of the Interior and of War Wilhelm Groener. Each morning foreign correspondents in Berlin expected the Bruning Government to fall and Fascist Adolf Hitler, who only fortnight ago pounded a platform and shouted in his best Mussolini manner "Right goes hand in hand with Might!", to seize the Government. Municipal elections were held in Stuttgart. Hitlerites nearly doubled their previous vote. The provincial diets of Oldenburg...
...Br�ning-Hindenburg-Groener triumvirate have faced almost monthly crises for the past 18 months. One more did not cause them to lose their heads. First move was to issue one more emergency decree described by German correspondents as "the most tremendous effort ever made by a German government to save the German people and economic system...
Minister of War and Minister of Interior?General Wilhelm Groener...
...opposition from moderate Reichstag Deputies (tired of his Dictatorship) had to be crushed. Ruthlessly the Chancellor cut out of his Cabinet several old friends, notably moderate Foreign Minister Dr. Julius Curtius whose portfolio Dr. Bruning took himself, then revamped his whole Cabinet on strictly dictatorial lines. Martinet General Wilhelm Groener he retained as Minister of War, gave him also the Ministry of Interior, thus concentrating in one man complete control of the Army and of all German municipal police. The new cabinet...
...President in Feldmarschal's uniform and spiked helmet, Chancellor Heinrich Brüning in his high hat. Defense Minister Wilhelm Groener in his high hat et omnes in their high hats were presently in position. A glorious sun beamed on Kiel. In the harbor a short distance away the entire German home fleet (27 ships) was drawn up ready to blaze a 21-gun salute. No one was supposed to know that the new ship would be christened Deutschland-named after the beloved Fatherland by HINDENBURG. Officially the sleek, rivetless war-boat, cunningly welded together by German genius...