Word: raeder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister General Werner Eduard Fritz von Blomberg the Führer last week presented a field marshal's baton, first ever given in Germany in peacetime.* He made Air Minister Hermann Goring and Army Chief of Staff Werner von Fritsch colonel-generals and Fleet Commander Erich Raeder an admiral-general (something new). Colonel-general and admiral-general were also promoted to full Cabinet rank. To the smiling group in the Chancellery, suffused with pink German sentiment, the Führer readily launched into oratory: "On this day I look back with pride and joy upon the years that...
...first time the German Reichswehr participated at the Party Congress, ending the tradition that the German Army and its officers should remain outside politics. With Herr Hitler hobnobbed Defense Minister General Werner von Blomberg, Admiral Erich Raeder, Chief of the German Admiralty, and General Werner von Fritsch, Chief of the Reichswehr. In all 98 ranking officers appeared, to gether with the whole German Cabinet and every Nazi bigwig of note. Ambassadors of the Great Powers once again remained in Berlin, again fumed at "the impertinence of this ignoramus in inviting the corps diplomatique to a party caucus...
will appear on Wednesday. New books by Dorothy Parker. Andre Maurois, T.S. Eliot, Stephen Graham, Ralph Raeder and Christopher Morley will be reviewed...