Word: nazis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conqueror Hitler's birthday, thousands of bunches of primroses soon made a bright carpet about the Huss memorial and in floral letters four feet high appeared the hopeful Czechs' national motto: Pravda Vitezi ("Truth Prevails"). Knowing well that such a sentiment is obnoxious to their Nazi masters, sorrowful Czech policemen removed the decorations...
Turkey, unlike Bulgaria and Hungary, had its fill of German alliances in the World War and wants no more of them. Although trading heavily with Nazi Germany, the Turks now look favorably on the British-French antiaggression "Peace Front." Last week, in the face of this development, Adolf Hitler decided it was high time to send to Turkey a man skilled in dealing with just such a situation. He picked for the job of Reich Ambassador to Ankara Franz von Papen, a diplomatic smoothie, an international intriguer whom British Foreign Office wits call the "German specialist for political dirty work...
...Ambassador has had many narrow escapes, the closest being in the 1934 Nazi purge, when only President von Hindenburg's protection and friendship saved him from assassination. Friends and associates have not been so lucky. His political supporters were wiped out in the purge and the body of the man who was his secretary in Austria was found floating in the Danube two months after Anschluss...
...late General Kurt von Schleicher, who was murdered in the Nazi purge by SS Guards, once described von Papen as: "The kind of traitor beside whom Judas Iscariot is a saint...
...visit from Baron Edgar von Spiegel, a World War submarine commander, now German consul general at New Orleans. Their conversation had not gone far before it appeared to Mr. Sherman that the Baron had come to make a highly dishonorable proposal: that the university establish a German professorship with Nazi money, the professor and textbooks to be chosen by the Baron. Mr. Sherman ordered the Baron to get out of his office before he called a sheriff...