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Accordingly, the conspirators determined to overthrow Hitler and expose his reckless gambling to the German people. "The leaders . . . were myself, General Erwin von Witzleben, commander of the Berlin garrison; Colonel General Ludwig Beck, my predecessor; Count von Helldorf, police president of Berlin; General von Brockdorf, head of the Potsdam garrison, and General Edwin von Stülpnagel. The commander in chief, von Brauchitsch, had been informed of the conspiracy...
...appointment came apparently from the Ministry of Interior. No confirmation could be had that the Realmleader approved this or Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick's other drastic move last week in appointing as Berlin's Chief of Police ruthless, Jew-baiting Count Wolf von Helldorf who was once the intimate friend of the late Storm Troop Leader Ernst Roehm. Did Hitler, Germans wanted to know, approve a fresh drive for "sterilization of the unfit" launched by the Party last week with the news that German Science has produced "a harmless means of sterilizing an already pregnant mother...
Three days later this element boiled to the top of the Party. Berlin's stern but not markedly anti-Semitic Chief of Police, old Rear Admiral Magnus von Levetzow, was ousted for not helping the Jew hunt along, replaced by that ruthless young huntsman Count Wolf von Helldorf. His first act was to decree that Berlin's Jewish-owned ice cream parlors which do most of their business in the evening must close at 7 p. m. Next the Storm Troops, who have recently been repressed, were again given "police duties" in Berlin to "purge the city." They...
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