Word: papen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ended last week the first sennight of Adolf Hitler's open opposition to the Junker Cabinet of Chancellor von Papen. Government officials lost no time in putting this opposition to the test. Acting under Defense Minister von Schleicher's emergency decree against terrorism, five Nazis were sentenced to death at Beuthen, Silesia, for so beating a Communist workman named Pietzruch that he died of wounds. That there should be no charge of discrimination, several members of the republican Reichsbanner were imprisoned for from 18 months to four years for brutality in other Silesian riots...
...went bristle-lipped Adolf Hitler last week. He was led into the former office of the late great Bismarck. Seated at the Iron Chancellor's old desk, his soft white hands folded before him, sat aged President Paul von Hindenburg. Near him stood smooth, grey Chancellor Franz von Papen and the State Secretary of the Reich, Dr. Otto Meissner...
...your future course to keep always in mind your duty to the Fatherland and your responsibility to the German people." Adolf Hitler made no promise, clicked his heels, bowed, left the room. He rushed into conference with other Nazi leaders before returning to his headquarters at Munich. Chancellor von Papen dashed in another direction to a Cabinet meeting. Old Paul took his cane and walked slowly under the linden trees in the Chancellery garden. Thus ended a week of as tense plotting, bargaining and intrigue as Germany has seen since the War. Hauptmann von Schleicher. The most important...
...financial arrangements with Russia. Also he would hold down Hitler. The rest is open news. Von Schleicher returned to Berlin, set his cabal against republican Chancellor Briining in motion, won over President von Hindenburg and set up his Junker "Cabinet of Monocles" under smartly groomed Lieut. Colonel Franz von Papen, his military subordinate...
Relations. Sly General von Schleicher had reasons for selecting Baron von Gayl and Lieut. Colonel von Papen. The smooth von Papen married the niece of a French Marquis. He speaks almost perfect French. He has many French friends and much money invested in French concerns. Baron von Gayl is descended from an Andreas Gail of Cologne, ennobled about 1390, one branch of whose descend ants went to France, while the others moved east to Prussia and the Polish border. The French branch of the family still exists; the French army contains a General Baron Jean de Gail...