Word: reichstag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, 42, No. 2 Nazi. President of the Reichstag, Realm Minister of Aviation, Chief of the German Secret Service, Premier of Prussia, Commander of Police, Head Forester and Chief Game Warden and Master of the Hunt in Prussia, Director General of the State Theatres; to blonde, buxom Emmi Sonnemann, 35, whom he appointed "Prussian State Actress" during his courtship. Said he: "My best man will be Adolf Hitler." The shrine erected by General Göring to his late first wife, a Swedish Baroness, is a point of pilgrimage for the Nazi League of German Girls...
...there were not a George Dimitroff in the life of Hermann Wilhelm Göring, it might be necessary to invent one. When Comrade Dimitroff was on trial in the famed Reichstag arson case, Prussian Premier Göring, through whose official residence the fire bugs apparently entered, screamed in open court: "I am not afraid of you, you rascal! You have reason to fear that I'll catch you when you're out of prison! You dirty rascal! You dirty rascal !" This scene Elmer Rice has put into a play (TIME, Sept...
...State to the Realmleader, announced that Adolf Hitler now considers himself German Chief Executive for life (i.e. German emperor in all but name). Addressing the Berlin Civil Service Academy, Dr. Lammers advised them that "Cabinet ministers are now responsible only to the Leader and no longer to the Reichstag. The new fealty oath eliminates the possibility of a minister voting against the Leader...
Also from London came the voice of Frau Mathilde Wurm, 13 years a Socialist member of the Reichstag, a Jewess, now living in Great Britain in virtual exile. Speaking in English, she told the Conference that Hitlerism, having wooed the support of German women with promises of liberation from underpaid drudgery, betrayed them by expelling women from civil and professional life, and by handing them over to farm and household labor without...
...only readers who share the poet's indignation will sympathize with the deliberate lunatic ugliness of the poem on Van der Lubbe, the Dutch idiot executed by the Nazis for the Reichstag fire...