Word: papen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These hysterics were produced when a pact between Chancellor Schuschnigg and Chancellor Hitler was arranged last week by that most ominous go-between Lieut. Colonel Franz von Papen. In the first years of the World War, while military attache at the German Embassy in Washington, he was charged by the U. S. Secret Service with paying for the projected blowup of the Welland Canal. It was von Papen who went between Hitler and von Hindenburg, with the ultimate result that an Austrian-born painter of picture post cards became Dictator of Germany. To escape assassination by Nazi radicals who hate...
...doctor had sat up all night in Vienna with ever-scheming Franz von Papen and Austrian financiers; he was greeted in Belgrade with an order for German heavy industrial products almost huge enough to wipe out the $8,000,000 Germany owes Yugoslavia; and in Athens the swashbuckling entourage of Premier General Metaxas said talk had all been of deals involving German aircraft, artillery and four destroyers for Greece. In Sofia there was a matter of some Bulgar credits in Germany now secretly liquidated in great part by German shipments of arms to Italy for which Italy paid Bulgaria...
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...Hindenburg then intrusted Herr Von Papen with the government although that cabinet had the confidence of only 10% of the members of the Reichstag. "The price which Hindenburg had to pay for the Nazi's support of Von Papen's cabinet, was that the President would allow the reestablishment of the Brown Shirts troops. These troops had been dissolved by me during the Prussian election," said Bruening, clearing up the question as to why the German President had ever allowed the return of the Storm Troopers...
Although Hitler had promised 4 years support of the Von Papen ministry, a vote of censure was soon passed and the Reichstag dissolved. After 6 weeks Von Sleicher was dismissed and "in a fit of panic the President gave all power to Hitier...