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Ever since their Supreme Court began to probe the Reichstag Building fire (TIME, Oct. 2 et seq.) Germans have been wondering what would happen if the Court should call beefy General Hermann Wilhelm Göring, Premier of Prussia and the No. 2 Nazi, as a witness. Would he deny that the firebugs escaped through the Reichstag's famed underground passage leading to the house of the Speaker, who was then Göring himself? Could he make plausible the Nazi charge that Communists set a fire which provided Chancellor Hitler with the opportunity to rush straight to President...
...Strasser and Schleicher were plotting, summoned Nazi storm troop leaders and Deputies from all over Germany to an historic Party meeting in Berlin. "Comrades," said the Leader gravely, "according to information in my possession Strasser told von Schleicher that he could deliver at least 30 Nazi members of the Reichstag to betray us and support the Schleicher Government, if Schleicher would make Strasser his Vice Chancellor...
Hitler's theory is based essentially on the belief that racial deterioration means deterioration of national culture. The foreign policy enunciated in his latest speech in the Reichstag may be termed "non-aggressive nationalism." By emphasizing nationalism in the various political units in the World, it is theoretically not intended that hostilities among them should be aroused, but merely that, through a clearer desperation of the differences between states, they should be enabled to carry on negotiations on a sounder basis...
Determined to drag out the Reichstag Fire Trial until the last Nazi has perjured himself, the Leipzig court has introduced a dozen more reputable Hitlerite witnesses who have duly sworn that Herren Torgler, Dimitroff, Taneff, and Popoff were six places at once on the night of the incendiarism. Quite the most ingenious charge to date was made yesterday by a good brownshirt who asserted that Torgler had tried to get him to burn the building "so that suspicion would be placed on the Nazis." The strategical brilliance of this move would have escaped any but a Nazi. CASTOR...
...German public, Dr. Goebbels discovered, still thought last week that new political parties could be formed before the Reichstag election Nov. 12. On the contrary, he declared, there is now in Germany one Party-all others have been dissolved and to form a new party is a "statutory offense, covered by drastic penalties...