Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Premier of Prussia is in Germany far more than to be in the U. S. Governor of the State of New York. Starting out as Kings of Prussia, the Hohenzollerns welded the rest of the Fatherland around them as the German Empire. They struck the national keynote with Prussian kultur. Prussia today is more than ever the dynamic centre of the Reich. Recently the drastic activities of Prussian Premier Göring have eclipsed German Chancellor Hitler's broader but less intense efforts to "coordinate" the whole Reich. Last week Widower Göring was pushing to completion...
Death to Dissenters. Starting with the state mechanism for suppression of crime and calling in Prussian Minister of Justice Hans Kerrl, Premier Göring drafted a set of laws which his Cabinet promptly adopted by decree. These provide the death penalty for attempts on the life of Nazi officials in Prussia, for "subversive activity," and for the spreading of greuel-geschichten ("atrocity stories"). The new laws also vest in Premier Göring personally more authority to pardon than was possessed by the King of Prussia...
Amnesty to Dodgers. Since Prussia was governed by German Socialists from 1920 until last year, Premier Göring is trying the experiment of offering wealthy folk who dodged Socialist taxes an opportunity to win amnesty for their past misdeeds by solid support of the Nazi Prussian State-contributions to the Nazi Party being implied, though of course not stated in Captain Göring's declaration...
...Bolshevism' of the Prussian State then existing forced many men, for the sake of keeping their concerns going, to embark on courses of action which were then illegal but are now understandable...
Discreetly behind a cloud of Prussian censorship last week Minister of Justice Kerrl and Premier Göring were making it possible for scores if not hundreds of wealthy tax-dodgers to hold their heads high...