Word: hohenzollern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paul von Hindenburg swore eternal fealty to the Hohenzollern Crown-yet permitted himself to be elected President. Elected and reelected, he twice swore as President to preserve, protect and defend the Republican Constitution, Article 3 of which reads: The national colors are black- red-gold...
...Prussian Deputy tried to fly his country's flag. Berlin police made him take it down. The Deputy's country-the German Republic-was dying if not dead. Meanwhile out of the ballot box another Germany was being reborn. Its flag- black, white & red-the onetime Imperial Hohenzollern colors, flew in every street, floated majestically from Government buildings and was flaunted everywhere by shouting, cheering throngs. Goosestepping as smartly as when they were members of Germany's Imperial Army, and with several Hohenzollern Princes in their ranks, 20,000 Stahlhelmers paraded down Unter den Linden. Strangely enough...
...German Republic, contains more than 1,000,000 inhabitants. On telegraphic orders from Berlin grim Nazi Storm Troops rushed upon Hamburg's Socialist Mayor. Dr. Karl Petersen, who promptly resigned. The flag soon broken out above Hamburg's City Hall was neither the Republican nor the Hohenzollern banner. Having won the election under borrowed colors, the Nazis hoisted the Nazi flag: red. with a black swastika in its round white bull...
...Hitler piled into his Mercedes beside the chauffeur, shot off between lines of police to form his Cabinet with record speed. There were rumors, doubtless untrue, but alarming, that General von Schleicher & Friends were about to attempt a "General's Putsch" and proclaim restoration of the House of Hohenzollern. In less than an hour the new Hitler Cabinet had met for a brief conference in the Reich Chancellery and Germans were staring at this slate...
Birthdays. Oldest U. S. Doctor Merritt H. Eddy, 100; Wilhelm Hohenzollern, 74; Charles Curtis, 73; Daniel Willard, 72; Walter Johannes Damrosch, 71; Antonio Scotti, 67; Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 51; Auguste Piccard...