Word: prussians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finally got a contract broadcasting twice a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. E.S.T.) for Tangee Lipstick. Five years ago singing for her supper was the farthest thing from Greta Keller's mind. She was playing the lead in the Viennese production of Broadway. A Prussian with pretty legs had one of the minor parts. Her name was Marlene Dietrich...
...When a Prussian Deputy tried to fly his country's flag. Berlin police made him take it down. The Deputy's country-the German Republic-was dying if not dead. Meanwhile out of the ballot box another Germany was being reborn. Its flag- black, white & red-the onetime Imperial Hohenzollern colors, flew in every street, floated majestically from Government buildings and was flaunted everywhere by shouting, cheering throngs. Goosestepping as smartly as when they were members of Germany's Imperial Army, and with several Hohenzollern Princes in their ranks, 20,000 Stahlhelmers paraded down Unter den Linden...
...Prussian Diet...
Versailles Violated. Measures taken included flat violation of the Treaty of Versailles by raising the number of Germans under arms. Pistols and in many cases rifles were issued to some 60,000 so-called "auxiliary Prussian police" made up as follows: 50% ordinary troopers from the Nazi Sturmabteilung; 30% picked Nazi shock troops from the Schutzstaffel, Hitler's Praetorian Guard; 20% members of the Stahlhelm ("Steel Helmets"), War veterans' association whose leader is Minister of Labor Herr Franz Seldte, rich bottler of soda water. With astounding boldness the State ordered that men drafted as "auxiliaries" while holding jobs...
...Still standing are the outer walls of Silesian sandstone and much of the interior, ornately marbled. France paid for the whole building as part of the Franco-Prussian War indemnity. Above the main door a grim stone figure of St. George frowns with the face of Iron Chancellor Bismarck...