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...foreigners, were ordered by Cabinet decree to obey whatever instructions Reich authorities may issue "for protection against air attack." In practice this means that foreigners must now rush about with Germans, donning gas masks, popping into cellars, and having their homes rummaged by Nazi inspectors whenever Air Minister General Hermann Wilhelm Goring orders one of his realistic mock air raids...
...Kriegsminister von Blomberg performed a little ceremony. He went out to the Invaliden Cemetery, laid wreaths on the graves of two significant heroes of Prussia's wars against Napoleon Bonaparte: General Gerhard von Scharnhorst, who introduced universal compulsory military training into Prussia, and General Hermann von Boyen, who beat French restrictions on the size of the Prussian Army by training successive batches of reserves for short periods...
...week's law made him the actual commander of all Germany's armed forces, responsible only to Der Führer in person. Under him and observing his orders will be General Werner von Fritsch of the Army, Admiral Erich Rader of the Navy, and rambunctious General Hermann Wilhelm Goring of the Military Air Corps...
...battalion of grey Reichswehr troops stood as a guard of honor before the door. In public squares all over Berlin, all over Germany, other crowds stood gaping at the trumpet horns of loudspeakers. Inside the Opera House the brown-shirted Reichstag had been called to order by paunchy Hermann Wilhelm Göring. It had risen, once to honor the memory of Bavarian Minister of Education Hans Schem, killed in an airplane accident, once to do the same for the late Marshal Pilsudski of Poland. It had welcomed the newly elected delegates from the Saar making their first appearance...
Born. To Roger Wolfe Kahn, 27, aviator, orchestra leader, son of the late great Otto Hermann Kahn; and Edith May Nelson Kahn, 24, daughter of onetime Representative John Edward Nelson of Maine, whom he married two years ago after being divorced by the present Mrs. Jack Dempsey; a daughter, their first child; in Manhattan...