Word: prussianize
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...term during which this decree remains in force the Chancellor of the Reich is appointed Federal Commissioner for Prussia. In this capacity he is empowered to remove members of the Prussian Ministry from office. He is further empowered to assume for himself the official duties of the Prussian Premier and to entrust other persons with the conduct as Commissioners of the other Prussian Ministries...
What It Meant. On the surface the Junker dictatorship was a triumph for "Handsome Adolf" Hitler and his followers. For months the Fascists have been demanding the right to parade in uniform. They now have won the right. They have demanded the dissolution of the Prussian Cabinet and the nationalization of the schupos (Prussian police). They now have that too. and the Junker government has harried the Communists in a way to warm the cockles of every Fascist heart. But was it a Hitlerite victory? Wrote the London Daily Express...
...Communists swarmed out of their tenements and tried to build barricades. Five dead bodies were picked up in the streets. From all over Hamburg doctors were called away from their homes for emergency operations. Seven victims died in hospital wards; at least 50 were seriously wounded. Fascist leaders telegraphed Prussian Minister of the Interior Karl Severing: OPEN CIVIL WAR REIGNS IN ALTONA...
...Papen and Adolf Hitler to go out to East Neudeck and confer earnestly with President Paul von Hindenburg. First reports were that martial law was about to be declared throughout Germany. Correspondents waited but no announcement appeared. Another story was generally accepted: the 90,000 blue-coated Schupos (Prussian state police) were about to be mustered under the control of the central Government along with other state police -which would mean the practical end of states' rights in Germany...
...Socialist cartoon showed brown-shirted Fascists being paid out of the Federal Treasury, which they are not. The Catholic article attacked Catholic Chancellor von Papen for his stand at Lausanne. Decision as to whether to suppress the newspapers was up to Prussian Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Karl Severing, taciturn Socialist, famed for ruthless police methods to keep order in Berlin...