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...into the former office of the late great Bismarck. Seated at the Iron Chancellor's old desk, his soft white hands folded before him, sat aged President Paul von Hindenburg. Near him stood smooth, grey Chancellor Franz von Papen and the State Secretary of the Reich, Dr. Otto Meissner...
...Excellent," answered handsome Adolf, "I am not willing, nor are my associates. We wish on the contrary to request the President to entrust us with leadership of the government of the Reich and with the entire state apparatus in full measure...
...proved to be woefully inadequate. The Constitution needs revision." He suggested four amendments: 1) Establishing an Upper House on the model of the U. S. Senate. 2) Raising the voting age. 3) Revising the proportional system to reduce the number of political parties. 4) Reforming the structure of the Reich to bring about complete harmony between the Reich and Prussian governments. Right Wing papers flatly headlined their stories: LAST CONSTITUTION...
Flags were half-masted through the Reich. It was Germany's greatest naval disaster since the War. The Niobe was originally a Norwegian four-masted barque, captured by German commerce raiders at the beginning of the War. Re-rigged, commissioned as a training ship in 1922, she was the first commissioned vessel of Germany's post-War navy. In Chicago last week reporters wrote down messages of condolence from her first German commander, the much publicized lecturer, onetime commerce raider, strong-fisted Count Felix von Luckner...
...First Reich: Bismarck's Empire. Second Reich: The Republic. Third Reich: a second Empire...