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Awarded. To Dr. William Francis Beer, Salt Lake City surgeon who performed 300 successful operations on interned Germans during the War: the German Red Cross Medal, first decoration conferred by Germany upon a U. S. citizen for wartime services; by President von Hindenburg...
Privates in the German Army now have to salute officers in the Nazi Storm Troops, mostly small-time politicians. Little by little Chancellor Hitler is trying to Nazify the Army and win its idolized leader General Werner von Blomberg away from his stanch loyalty to President von Hindenburg, his aloof attitude toward politics. Last week General von Blomberg as Reichswehr (Army) Minister issued an order which warmed Nazi cockles, a definitely anti-Semitic order. "In future any member of the Reichswehr desirous of marrying," he decreed, "must submit evidence that his proposed bride is Aryan that none of her four...
...this Nazi "German Christians" rejoiced. Evangelical Christians denounced "outrage upon outrage" and President von Hindenburg wrote to Chancellor Hitler: "From the continuance, let alone the exacerbation, of these conditions the gravest damage must result to our people and Fatherland as well as injury to national unity. I therefore feel myself obligated to God and my conscience to do everything in my power to avert such damage...
...With friendly greetings, your "VON HINDENBURG...
...Tycoons & Junkers. When worried President von Hindenburg let "Safeguard Minister" Dr. Hugenberg go last week he withdrew support from Germany's most pampered class-his closest friends and neighbors, the East Prussian Junkers (landed proprietors). The Junkers, sunk as a class in debt, have clung to their lands for years through special Government grants of credit and decrees to block foreclosure. Chancellor Hitler appointed as Minister of Agriculture a Nazi famed as "The Friend of the Small Farmer," Herr Walter Darré. As every Junker knows Herr Darré regards their class as a feudal excrescence on new Germany...