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Last week Chief Arthur Mahraun of the Young German Order started a movement to get a national plebiscite to re-elect President von Hindenburg. Adolf Hitler wrote Chancellor Bruning a belated letter flatly refusing to help prolong the President's term by Reichstag action, whereupon the Government set Feb. 28 as election day. On the subject of election candidates Herr Hitler was glumly silent. Silent', too, was Oberst Epp. With so much almost within his grasp he did not want to overstep...
Flush and fiery Arthur Mahraun, 39, a Prussian infantry captain in the War, formed an organization in 1919 known as the Young German Order. Its purpose: to fight Bolshevism in Germany. The failure of the Kapp putsch (revolution) of 1920 put Prussian militarists in temporary bad odor. The Young German Order expanded as a great war veteran's organization, forgot the Bolshevists, concentrated on Germany's ancient enemies: France and Poland. In 1921 red-cheeked Capt. Mahraun was busy shooting Poles in upper Silesia. Few years ago, like St. Francis of Assisi he saw a great light, reformed...
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