Word: prussians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...necessary to save Germany from ruin!" ¶ In Prussia (which is nearly two-thirds of Germany) 24 provincial governors and police chiefs "suspect of Republicanism" were ousted and replaced by reactionary government supporters such as Nazi Rear Admiral Magnus von Levetzow, appointed Chief of Police of Berlin. Next day Prussian police started confiscating the passports of such famed Liberals & Pacifists as Hellmuth von Gerlach, thus cooping them in Germany as Dictators Stalin & Mussolini coop enemies of their réegimes in Russia & Italy...
...Therefore, I transfer to the Federal Commissioner for Prussia [Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen] until further notice the powers which the aforesaid decision gave to the Prussian Cabinet...
With Premier Braun & Cabinet thus politically annihilated by a stroke of Der Feldmarshal's pen, Lieut.-Colonel von Papen proclaimed dissolution of the Prussian Diet and elections March 5, the same day as the Reichstag elections...
...Supreme Court decision of Oct. 25, 1932 caused confusion in the Prussian Government, endangering the well being of the State...
Speaker Göring, another Hitler henchman will have similar control, as Prussian Minister of Interior, in Germany's largest state...