Word: reichstagers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Loebe of the Reichstag seized the heavy bell with which it is given him to attempt to maintain order and during most of the week rang it until his arm ached...
...extreme Left of the Reichstag the Communists groaned; at the extreme Right the Ludendorff Voelkische Deputies stamped and hissed. Atop the Tribune, Chancellor Luther stubbornly defended his newly created "Little Coalition Government" (TIME...
Showdown. Chancellor Luther ascended the Tribune after his henchmen had assiduously bruited it about that he carried in his pocket an order for the dissolution of the Reichstag which bore the signature "Paul von Hindenburg." If the vote of confidence should be defeated, the Chancellor would announce that President von Hindenburg believed that only a general election could terminate the three-cornered deadlock now existing between the various Reichstag factions. The Deputies pondered well whether they wished to lose their seats and campaign for them again. While they pondered, Foreign Minister Stresemann seized the occasion as the psychological moment...
...times have changed. So also has the name of the historic square before the Reichstag building. Yesterday it was Konigplatz. Konigplatz was military Germany incarnate. There rightly stood the stalwart statues of von Moltke and that mighty Empire Builder, Prinz Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck-Schonhausen...
Finally, a sensation was created when the notorious ultra-reactionary militarist, Captain Ehrhardt, was observed to be strolling about the lobbies of the Reichstag and conferring privately with the leaders of the Voelkische, the extreme-Right Ludendorff faction. Captain Ehrhardt not only led the famed Kapp Putsch, which attempted to overthrow the German Republic in March, 1920, but was so implicated in the assassination of the Ministers Erzberger and Rathenau that he was forced to flee from Germany until the passing of last year's amnesty law. Pressmen eagerly touted his appearance as a sign that his old adherents...