Word: reichstag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This kind of British overture to last Saturday's curtain-raising in Berlin on "The World's Best Paid Male Chorus,"* spoke volumes. It meant that, at the end of four years of absolute power granted him originally by the German Reichstag, freely elected (TIME, April 3, 1933), Adolf Hitler is seen by all Europe as a portentous figure, no longer an upstart but a German Chancellor of almost Bismarckian stature, a figure clothed with the aura as well as the fact of Power. Thus Der Führer was recently painted in what is today his favorite...
Five Minutes, Under orders from Reichspropaganda-minister P. J. Goebbels, every German store and factory had ceased activity, every radio loudspeaker in the Fatherland was supposed to be on the nationwide Reichstag hookup. Messengers and street sweepers were under orders to drop everything and rush into the nearest cinema where sound apparatus was attuned to Der Führer, and in iron tones the whole German people were told: "There can be no excuse for not having listened to every word spoken by our beloved Leader, Adolf Hitler...
Almost every Reichstag Deputy was in Nazi uniform-exceptions being Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, "The Little Man In Blue" and once-great German press tycoon (TIME, July 10, 1933), and Lieut. Colonel Franz von Papen, who barely escaped death in the Nazi "blood purge" (TIME, July 9, 1934) but still enjoys Herr Hitler's favor and is today the German Ambassador and No. 1 Nazi plotter in Der Führer's native Austria...
Looking like a parliament of soldiers, the uniformed Reichstag waited 30 minutes for its Messiah to arrive in flaring black military breeches, well-shined boots and unadorned brown shirt. Up jumped the Reichstag to salute and "HEIL HITLER!" Down sat the Reichstag. Minister of the Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick nominated Minister-Prasident-Generaloberst Hermann Wilhelm Goring, fresh from his parleys in Rome with II Duce, to be Speaker again. Up jumped the Reichstag, thus electing him unanimously...
Down sat the Reichstag, then jumped up to vote unanimous extension of the Enabling Act (under which the Realmleader governs by decree without consulting the Reichstag) for another four years. This concluded the German legislative program of this session in just under five minutes, and the Reichstag sat back to-do its only other work: listen to Adolf Hitler...