Word: leipzig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hitler and Fascism" will be the topic of Dr. Goldschmidt at the meeting in the Lowell House Common Room at 8 o'clock Thursday. Goldschmidt, who once taught at the University of Leipzig, has been lecturing at the University of Mexico for the past three years, but is now attempting to organize a University League against Fascism...
Meanwhile one of the trial's sidelights had the attention of the world Press and the Foreign Offices of two countries. It had been announced that no Communist or Socialist newspaper men would be admitted to the long press tables of the Leipzig trial. Two Moscow correspondents, Mme Lili Keith of Izvestia and M. Ivan Bespalow of the Tass news agency, made no efforts to invade the courtroom, but set up offices in Leipzig. Nazi police raided the room, ransacked it thoroughly and hauled both writers off to the police station for hours of questioning...
...Wilhelmstrasse was worried. Ever since the anti-Red Hitler boojum began to frighten the Kremlin, France has been courting Russia, sending first Edouard Harriot (TIME, Sept. 11), then French Air Minister Pierre Cot to Moscow. Berlin last week dared antagonize Moscow no further. The Leipzig police department and the German Foreign Office hastened to send regrets...
...Nazis themselves set fire to the building, by producing alibis for two Nazis-Police Chief Edmund Heines of Breslau and Lieutenant Schultze-both directly named in the London "mock trial." Busy-buzzing U. S. Liberal Arthur Garfield Hays, one of the leading lights of the London trial, hung around Leipzig for days. Defense lawyers devoutly prayed that he go back to his American Civil Lib erties Union before he got them all into trouble. Judge Bünger finally granted him permission to submit testimony later and provide sworn statements from witnesses afraid to appear. From every point of view...
...witnesses in London arose and riddled every possible story the Nazi prosecution could present in Leipzig this week. Dr. Paul Herz, onetime secretary to the Social Democratic Party in the Reichstag, claimed that the incendiaries could not have entered the Reichstag except through a tunnel leading from the official residence of the Reichstag President, Prussia's barrel-chested Premier Hermann Wilhelm Göring. A onetime Police President of Berlin testified that 1,500 arresting warrants were ready for use immediately after the fire. Liberal Editor Georg Bernhard and Social Democrat Chairman Dr. Rudolf Breitscheid agreed that the Nazis...