Word: reichstag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sessions of the German Reichstag have been few and far between since the Nazis came to power. In the last six years obedient Nazi deputies have been called together only ten times and on each occasion for only one purpose: to act as a sounding board while Führer Adolf Hitler solemnly explains some high Nazi policy to his nation and the world...
Four times the Führer has delivered before the Reichstag, generally on January 30, the anniversary of the Nazis' coming to power, a long, serious "state-of-the-nation" speech. Six extraordinary sessions have been called. On one of those occasions in July 1934, the Führer assembled his legislative yes-men to hear him tell why he had found it necessary to kill off several hundred Nazi Party men the month before. Two years later he thought it mete to explain publicly why he had ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland...
Last week the Reichstag was again called to meet in extraordinary session in Berlin's Kroll Opera House,* but it was far from a solemn occasion. The deputies were scheduled to hear Herr Hitler's reply to President Roosevelt's recent proposal of ten years of peace (see p. 11), but even before the session began the word got around that the Führer's answer would be cute. Herr Hitler himself set a tone of gaiety for the meeting when, two nights before, instead of dictating his speech to a dictaphone and two harried...
...Reichstag next day it was 2 hrs., 17 min. mostly of fun with patches of wrath, scorn, warnings, threats, insults, sandwiched in between the gags. With a pantomime that he seldom uses, the Führer, when he rose to speak, eyed his manuscript suspiciously and comically before he began to read. The deputies roared at that ; Dr. Goebbels' Berlin newspaper Der Angriff next day explained: "It was a small gesture, but one heavily packed with meaning...
...first time since the War, history began to be measured in days. The Miiller Government, socialist and conciliatory, gave way to the Bruning Government. In the Reichstag election the Nazis gained 107 seats, 6,401,200 votes (out of a total of 35,000,000). Hitler was no longer a rival of von Papen, von Schleicher, Bruning, but of Hindenburg himself. The Bruning Government ruled by decree, the von Papen ministry lasted 170 days, was followed by the von Schleicher ministry that lasted 56. On January 30, 1933, Hitler became Chancellor of Germany...