Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well adorned tale. Those apocryphal Germans who hacked the hands from helpless little Belgians have been resurrected, and in their new incarnation seem for more terrifying because they are far more plausible. It is easier to believe that Hitler summarily dispossessed Lion Feuchtwanger than it was to picture the Kaiser as a rather debased Antichrist...
...this day Germans do not know whether their Imperial Government really had a War Chest in 1914. Fabulous but kindling to Teuton imaginations, it was supposed to consist of four huge vaults set in living rock beneath a ruined castle, the combinations of the vaults being known only to Kaiser Wilhelm II and to two officers of the Imperial General Staff...
...vain Policeman Zauritz's family declared that he had been a Communist, protested the State funeral. It took place before 500,000 Berliners who jammed Unter den Linden and the vast square between onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II's Palace and Berlin's (Protestant) Cathedral. For the occasion Chancellor Hitler put on his brown shirt again, sat in a front pew. Pastor Hossenfelder, in his funeral sermon, called Herr Hitler "the man whom God has given us for a leader" and said that the two dead men, having cheered the Chancellor's appointment, died...
...votes. In 1928 the Party won a ludicrous twelve Reichstag seats; in 1930 it became second largest party with 107 seats. It has been largest since last August. The fact that entrenched, conservative German industrialists like Fritz Thyssen count themselves Herr Hitler's friends; the fact that ex-Kaiser Wilhelm's fourth Son Prince August ("Auwi") Wilhelm is a Nazi; and the fact that Germany's new Cabinet is so full of "safeguards," sufficiently explained last week the equanimity with which best posted observers greeted the advent of Chancellor Hitler...
...Doom lay ill the onetime Kaiser. Gottingen, with a third of its pupils ill, closed all schools. Brunswick closed part of its schools. Nuremburg and Hamburg had heavy morbidity...