Word: prussia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paul von Hindenburg, last President of the German Republic really paved the way for the Nazi revolution, by refusing to allow Heinrich Bruening to accept the premiership of Prussia while still Chancellor of the Reich, Bruening charged yesterday, in his last Godkin lecture...
...asked to be chosen Prime Minister of Prussia while I was Chancellor, because as Prime Minister I could not be dismissed by the Reich President without consent of the Prussian Parliament. However, as Chancellor, the President could dismiss me," declared Bruening...
...East Prussia, Reichsführer Hitler, Field Marshal von Mackensen and many another stood at attention in impressive ceremony as the body of Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg was transferred from a side tower of the massive Tannenberg war memorial to a permanent vault in the centre tower. Over the national hero's coffin lay the old German war flag with the iron cross on red, white and black. At half-mast everywhere else in Germany only the new Nazi swastika banner was allowed...
...Nazi, beefy General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, great friend of beefy Field Marshal Julius Combos, Premier of Hungary. One morning last week the Premier, who characteristically has Hungarian soldiers punished by flogging, climbed into an airplane sent by General Goring to fetch him. Soaring from Hungary to East Prussia, Premier Combos alighted to find Hunt Host Goring surrounded by German and Polish officials including the rabidly anti-Soviet chairman of the Polish Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, Prince Radziwill...
With General Goring, who is also Premier of Prussia and German Air Minister, attending to Poland and Hungary, Realmleader Hitler himself attended to Lithuania last week. This new Republic seized Memel from beaten Germany after the War. The old frontier between Tsarist Russia and Kaiserish Germany ran along the edge of Memel through what is now Lithuania. Last week the 80,000 Memelanders were to elect 29 Deputies to the pigmy Parliament of their minuscule semi-autonomous Territory. Nothing was at stake except German prestige, for Adolf Hitler had resolved that the 1932 Memel election record in which about...