Word: reichstag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week the believing pioneers jammed a great Berlin hall, some boldly shouting ''Back to Wotan!" Others cautiously preparing to argue for "mild revision of the Bible to make it less Jewish." Keynoters were Nazi Editor Fritz Gericke and Count Ernst zu Reventlow. 65-year-old Nazi Reichstag Deputy. If Old God Wotan's most prominent living disciple. General Erich Ludendorff, was present he went unnoticed. The big issue promptly became Paragraph 24 of the Nazi Constitution which explicitly makes Christianity the religion of Brownshirts. This was disposed of amid roars of ap proval when Keynoter Gericke...
...reserve to manage its German affairs. (Being a De Wendell however, is no necessary barrier to th perquisites and profits still obtainable from the German armament business, as will later appear.) In 1914 the ranking member of the family was Humbert von Wendel a member of the German Reichstag, living at Hayange in Moselle, near the Saar Basin. After the treaty of Versailles he became Humbert de Wendel. A younger brother, Guy is a French Senator, however--and of his other brother the Francois of the Comite, more later...
...sooner had the regimented millions of Berlin (see p. 18) tramped home from Tempelhof Field to soak their tired feet than they had real news to read in their papers. Dissatisfied with the results of the famed Reichstag Fire trial in which all but one of the five defendants were acquitted, the Nazi government announced the establishment of a new "People's Court" to take all cases of high treason from the penal division of the Supreme Court...
Immediately after the Reichstag trial, Nazi papers snorted that Chief Justice Wilhelm Bünger and his associates were "too legalistic, lacking the common touch." To be sure that nothing like this should hamper the People's Court, it was announced that of its five members, only two had to be lawyers. The other three were to be chosen by the Chancellor from among those "who have had special experience in fighting off attacks against the State...
...convention's praesidium of 37 were elected, amid loud cheers, ten honorary world members, including Josef Stalin and George Dimitroff, fiery Bulgarian Communist tried for the Reichstag fire...