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...creaking backs from harvesting their rye to look into the faces of burly Nazi policemen, lounging menacingly nearby. By a decree styled "A Decree for Safeguarding the Bread Supply," Agriculture Minister Richard-Wralther Darré requisitioned all wheat and rye crops for the Third Reich. To guarantee enforcement, Heinrich Himmler, with a wave of his pince-nez, directed his State police to supervise all harvesting, transporting, and storage activities. Farmers may retain only enough for their personal appetite, feeding hired hands, and seed...
Significance. At the opening of the trial great interest focused on Prosecutor Vishinsky's blanket charge that the prisoners had operated hand-in-glove with Nazi agents and explicitly with those of Supreme Chief of the German Police Forces Herr Heinrich Himmler. Once this Mrs. de Vries (arrow...
...Danzig Senate President Arthur Karl Greiser. who recently thumbed his nose in the League Council (TIME, July 13), cracked back with decrees muzzling the Danzig Opposition and putting all citizens last week at the mercy of the Nazi police. Adolf Hitler's supreme chief of German Police, Heinrich Himmler, sent one of his closest aides to become Danzig's Police Chief...
...theme, "Let the furies of hell battle against me; I will ride through death and the devil." Instead of a psalm, the mourners sang Though All Should Prove Unfaithful, anthem of Nazidom's elite Schutzstaffel (Black Shirts), whose chief job is to guard Adolf Hitler. Schutzstaffel Chief Heinrich Himmler made a speech: "And as we serve here, you will serve in Valhalla, for your Führer, for our movement and for Germany." The Führer laid on the grave a wreath inscribed, "To my old, loyal, beloved comrade." Himmler went on: "And now, dear comrade...