Word: prussians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adolf Hitler's electioneering bark that when he became Dictator "Heads will roll in the sand!" ended factually in the sharp-bitten order of Sub-Dictator Hermann Wilhelm Goring to revive the medieval headsman's axe and chopping block in executing criminals duly condemned by Prussian courts to Death (TIME, Aug. 14). Last week three heads rolled off bloody blocks in the courtyards of Berlin prisons and a prominent Nazi official furnished correspondents with beheading facts...
Summus Episcopus. During the German Protestant Church struggle between Nazi and non-Nazi factions (TIME, June 12, et seq.) Premier Göring pitched in by announcing that he had assumed the ancient religious title of the Kings of Prussia, Summns Episcopus of the Prussian Protestant Church. By virtue of this office Captain Göring kept up maximum Nazi pressure on Protestants in Prussia, during and after the carefully fixed church plebiscite which was "won" by the Nazi "German Christians" (TIME, July 31). Fortnight ago the church elders elected as 'Primate of Prussia" at Premier Göring...
...public schools, teachers and pupils were ordered to greet each other with the Nazi salute and zealous Prussian Minister of Education Bernhard Rust even overstepped the bounds of his authority to extend this salute order to all adults in the State. "The salute is to be expected of every German," read Minister Rust's exuberant order. "Irrespective of whether he is a member of the National Socialist Party or not he will respect this form of greeting as a symbol of the new Germany...
Normally at the harvest season East Prussia imports laborers from adjoining Poland. This year 24,000 Prussian unemployed have been bundled into trains, shipped across the Polish Corridor in freight cars of the German State Railways, and put to work in East Prussia. Making much of this achievement Premier Göring has encouraged Berlin newspapers to print stories about how he and his protege, Governor Erich Koch of East Prussia, have there "performed the miracle of ending unemployment...
...Berlin last week Premier Göring had so stamped his dominance upon the capital that he felt safe in ordering disbanded on Aug. 15 the "auxiliary Prussian police" enrolled from Nazi Storm Troops six months ago and hotly protested in Geneva by France and her allies as "disguised soldiers violating the Treaty of Versailles." How many such troops or police there may have been is Premier Göring's secret. He said 30,000 last week, but protest estimates have always been at least...