Word: reichstag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Surprises Concluded" Just eleven months ago, when the Reichstag last met, the Saturday Surprise hurled by Hitler was to send grey-green columns of Reichswehr soldiers goose-stepping into the Rhineland, from which they were barred not only by the imposed Treaty of Versailles but by the voluntary Locarno Pact (TIME, Dec.14, 1925)This Surprise-of-1936 the British refused to take tragically, pointing out that while it was a flagrant violation of treaties, nevertheless the Rhineland was German soil. Bereft of British help, the loud fury of the French had soon to subside. The Surprise-of-1937 last week...
...rest of the world that for the last four years most German orators have shouted themselves hoarse denying the "war guilt" of Germany as admitted, signed and ratified in the Treaty of Versailles, last week Der Führer apparently considered it a great achievement to bring the Reichstag to its feet bellowing cheers at these words of the Realmleader...
...League of Nations (Hitler is against it); and Germany's further Rearmament under the Nazi Four-Year Plan (TIME, Sept. 21). In a final German outburst the Messiah, almost weeping, rejoiced that the Fatherland's "truest fighters [have] hung their lives on mine" and conveyed to the Reichstag the revelation that Adolf Hitler can "count on the acquiescence of Him who stands above...
Flushed with emotion, Chancellor Hitler then departed amid the songs of the Reichstag chorus, convened the German Cabinet and radiantly conferred on seven Ministers, who have hitherto not been Nazis,f full membership in the Party, pressing upon each a gold party badge. Thus Der Führer, on his Fourth Anniversary of Power, achieved what he has often spoken of as a "cherished dream": a Cabinet composed entirely of Nazis...
...Deputies of the Reichstag. Each is paid $240 monthly; in the last two years the Reichstag has been in session a total of four days, its "work" consisting of passing unanimous votes of Nazi approval, cheering Nazi bigwigs to the echo, singing Deutschland Uber Alles and the Horst Wessel Lied in the Kroll Opera House, where it has met since the Reichstag Building was burned (TIME, March...