Word: prussia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fatefully the smudge-mustached little Chancellor left Berlin by air one day last week for Essen, deep plans and savage suspicions gyrating in his brain. With him flew spectacular Reichsminister General Hermann Wilhelm Göring, the bull-necked Nazi war ace who controls Prussia's Secret Police. They discussed recent Nazi squabbles in Berlin which to both seemed disgraceful - and ominous...
...Prussia is firm in my hands!" he shouted. "Hitler is stronger than ever. Most of the Storm Troopers are loyal. They were merely misled." He then sketched hastily the vague outlines of a plot supposed to have had for its object the kidnapping of Adolf Hitler who was to have been forced to sign a paper turning Germany over for three days to the violence of Storm Troops. In an official printed release General Göring declared...
...left Berlin two weeks ago, supposedly to doze out the summer at his big manor house in East Prussia, but suddenly last week German statesmen were startled to feel again the enormous weight in high politics of HINDENBURG...
...negotiations in which von Papen, cool and supercilious, let his speech be attacked and defended by the Chancellor's hottest Left and Right fanatics, notably club-footed Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels and roaring, bull-necked General Hermann Wilhelm Göing, Premier of Prussia...
Same day Chancellor Hitler rushed nervously off to East Prussia to make what peace he could with President von Hindenburg. That the President was not entirely disinterested his personal enemies claimed. There is a certain Dr. Günther Gereke who raised a huge campaign fund for Paul von Hindenburg's last reelection (TIME. April 18, 1932) and afterwards kept a large remainder of the fund under circumstances which suggested that it was being held in reserve as a personal political war chest for the President. To arrest and convict Dr. Gereke of malfeasance was one of the Nazis...