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Knock on the Door. Hitler was well on his way to power when Schumacher arrived in Berlin in 1930 as a newly elected Reichstag Deputy from Württemberg. Almost immediately Schumacher made his mark. "He was most daring, most reckless, most lacking in respect," recalls the man who was then Reichstag president, "the same as today." His speeches were few but brash, sarcastic and courageous. One day in May 1932, after Goebbels had attacked the German Socialists on the Reichstag floor, Deputy Schumacher rose in fury to reply. "The whole National Socialist movement," he cried, "is only a lasting...
...Deeper Power. In 1949 he set about organizing the new laymen's movement. His aim: "To call upon Protestant lay-Christians to assume . . . responsibility in all provinces of public life." Although Thadden was once active in practical politics (as a Conservative deputy in the prewar Reichstag), he does not want to convert the Kirchentag into a political party...
...obstinate oppositionist, he was usually out of favor and several times exiled. In 1919, horrified by a colonial-style treaty between Britain and Persia, he hardened his policy into a simple Persia-for-the-Persians slogan. While the rest of the world went through Versailles, Manchuria, the Reichstag fire, Spain, Ethiopia and a World War, Mossadegh kept hammering away at his single note. Nobody in the West heard...
Highest honors went to Georgi Dimitrov, famed hero of the Reichstag fire trial who died in a Soviet sanatorium last July, to Vasil Kolarov, who succeeded Dimitrov as Bulgarian Premier only to die six months later, and, inevitably, to the living god Joseph Stalin. Some samples: Kostenec summer resort, the Kapinka village dam, Small Mus-Allah mountain peak, Longos State Farm, the Vurbitsa State Forest Station, and Sofia's Physical Culture High School were renamed for Dimitrov...
Shawcross added only one significant incident to the tale-how Fuchs had decided to stop being an open Communist and had gone underground. It was the morning after the Reichstag fire, in 1933, when the Nazis declared open season on Communists (whom they falsely accused of setting the fire). Fuchs read the story in a newspaper, riding on a train. "I took the hammer & sickle from the lapel of my coat where I had carried it," Shawcross quoted Fuchs as saying. "I was ready to accept the philosophy of the party as right in the coming struggle." The Chief Justice...