Word: reichsf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hearing that the rebellious pastors of the German Evangelical [Lutheran] Church plan to print and circulate privately their unanswered protest to the Reichsführer against practically everything going on in Nazi Germany (TIME, July 27), the Gestapo (secret police) raided Confessional Synod offices, lugged off typewriters, mimeograph and printing machines...
...censor-ridden Germany seeped news last week of a 4,000-word letter sent to Reichsführer Adolf Hitler last month, in which ten responsible pastors of the German Evangelical Protestant Church daringly protested against the entire credo and technique of the National Socialist Party. This remarkable document, phrased with an air of winning deference, indicted: 1) Nazi concentration camps; 2) the Nazi espionage system within the country; 3 ) the extralegal powers of the secret political police; 4) Nazi persecution of the German Protestant churches; 5) the Nazi philosophy of "blood, race and soil"; 6) the training of school...
Last week, their letter still unanswered, the pastors let it be known that if the Reichsführer did not reply within two more weeks, they would publish their letter and circulate it secretly among the Godfearing. Since Germany wants no overt trouble with its own churchmen while the Olympic games are going on, the pastors had five more weeks of grace...
Hearst v. Intellectuals. In 1934 Publisher Hearst was granted an audience with Nazi Germany's Reichsführer Adolf Hitler, chatted with many another Nazi bigwig. Biographers Lundberg, Carlson & Bates believe the German junket explains Mr. Hearst's subsequent journalistic forays against pinko professors at Syracuse, Chicago, Columbia and New York Universities. "One of the first lessons he had learned from his German mentor was the importance of terrorizing the faculties of colleges and universities."-Carlson & Bates. "Since his German trip, Hearst has been very preoccupied with students."- Lundberg...
...figure skate. Edward VIII has paid her many a kingly compliment. In 1934 ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany gave her his diamond stickpin crowned with the Hohenzollern crest. Her own sovereign, King Haakon VII of Norway, sends her a telegram or cable before every foreign appearance. And Reichsführer Adolf Hitler this winter invited Sonja and her parents to his Munich abode, gave her a silver-framed picture of himself, talked all evening to her about the importance of sport to the German people...