Word: reichstag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Friends warned him to flee Germany the day Hitler became Chancellor. He refused and on the night of the Reichstag Fire he was swept up into prison by Nazi secret police without a second thought. Of all this the Nobel Peace Prize Committee was reminded this year by such people as Thomas Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Romain Rolland, John Dewey, Albert Einstein...
Approval in Advance. Extremely flattering to the Party Congress was an abrupt order from the Realmleader summoning all Deputies of the German Reichstag to attend him in Nurnberg, this being the first time Herr Hitler has called his Parliament to heel at such a distance from Berlin...
Called to order shortly after 9 p. m. by the No. 2 Nazi, beefy General Hermann Wilhelm Göring among whose countless titles is President of the Reichstag, Germany's 600 Deputies first waived all the Reichstag's rules of procedure and voted to place themselves "under the leadership principle." Thus they approved in advance whatever decrees from Realmleader Hitler might be read out to them by President Göring...
...implications of this proviso struck the German Reichstag so forcibly that Deputies clutched their quaking midriffs and the whole chamber roared with Homeric laughter until tears of mirth glistened on many a cheek. Banging down his gavel President Göring boomed: "No Jew can insult Germany...
...tousle-haired Grigory Zinoviev, "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism," whose career abruptly ended when Joseph Stalin decided to soft-pedal World Revolution for a time. As forecast, Bulgarian Communist George Dimitroff, adder-tongued Red hero of the Nazi trial which failed to convict Communists of burning down the German Reichstag, was chosen last week Secretary General of the Comintern (TIME, July 29). He was acclaimed with shouts of "Long live Dimitroff, our wise, courageous Helmsman!" Taking the helm of World Revolution, George Dimitroff prepared to give it a new twist. In explicit advice to the Congress of 400 Communist leaders from...