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...British Empire were destroyed, the Führer went on pointedly to say, the United Kingdom would soon enough thirst for overseas territory as Germany thirsts today. The English did not secure their colonies by holding democratic plebiscites among the natives, continued the Chancellor, "but through naked, brutal force...
Daughter of a Masseuse! The generals invaded the august presence of the Führer on the plea that the most sacred traditions of the Army and the celebrated Potsdam Code of officers' conduct had been flagrantly violated by the marriage of War Minister Field Marshal von Blomberg (TIME, Jan. 24). These extremely private nuptials occurred in a Berlin marriage clerk's office and the War Minister's witnesses were No. 1 Nazi Hitler, No. 2 Nazi Göring. Their presence was sufficient authority, so Blomberg appeared to have thought, for the match. But the generals...
...smoothly. . . ." If Adolf Hitler had capitulated to the generals on these points last week, and apparently General von Fritsch thought he had the Führer at the point of capitulation, the whole course of current German history would have been altered. Herr Hitler, with his mystique momentarily shattered, decided in the greatest excitement not to call a session of the Reichstag which he was to have addressed. He might next have sent for General von Fritsch and capitulated, but instead he sent for Nazi Heinrich Himmler, chief of the Secret Political Police, and General von Fritsch, the Army commander...
Meanwhile the docile German people were permitted to learn almost nothing of all this. They were even told in Adolf Hitler's personal newsorgan, the Völkischer Beobachter, that Field Marshal von Blomberg was in Berlin with the Führer last week when he was in fact honeymooning at the Hotel Quisisana, Capri, Italy. At German frontiers bales of foreign newspapers were snatched off every arriving train, confiscated, destroyed. Fridericus, a typical Nazi Party newspaper, front-paged an editorial keynoting: "How smoothly everything goes in the Reich compared with conditions in America...
Secret Council. Nothing Adolf Hitler does is ever entirely simple, and last week he complicated his solution of the crisis by creating openly what he called a secret Cabinet Council "for the purpose of advising the Führer in the conduct of foreign policy." Old Baron von Neurath, who had just been kicked out as Foreign Minister, was made the so-called "president" of this council, but into it went also new Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop, Field Marshal Göring, Propaganda Minister Dr. Goebbels, Naval Chief of Staff Admiral-General Erich Raeder and Major General Wilhelm Keitel...