Word: reichstags
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Into that Platz, then into others, and finally into the vast wreckage of Unter den Linden came tanks and guns. Katusha rockets screeched over the Brandenburger Tor. Then, against a background of flames, the Red banner of victory was unfurled over the gutted Reichstag building. But, even after the ten-day battle was won, Germans died hard...
...Gangling, weak-chinned Prince August Wilhelm ("Auwi") von Hohenzollern. fourth son of the Kaiser, enthusiastic Brownshirt brigadier and Nazi Reichstag deputy, once dubbed "national orator" by Hitler. (His stepmother, Princess Hermine, also passed into U.S. custody at Schloss Rossla in the Harz mountains...
...Germany at the time of the famed Reichstag fire trial in 1933, and the Nazis tried to make him a scapegoat, along with dullard Marinus Van der Lubbe and German Communist Ernst Torgler. But they found Dimitroff too hot to handle. The flimsy case against him collapsed. Once again Moscow intervened, conferred Russian citizenship on the Bulgarian and obtained his release, then sent a plane to whisk him to his new home. He was hailed as a hero. Lenin's widow and sister sent him flowers. "I am a soldier of the revolution," Dimitroff said, "and will fight where...
...committee but two. Committee No. 1 (and undoubtedly the more important for Russian purposes) was the National Committee of Free Germany. It consisted of German Communists and fellow travelers, most of whom were refugees from Hitler's Germany. Most important among them was the German Communist and ex-Reichstag deputy Wilhelm Pieck, who with Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht had organized Germany's 1919 Spartacus revolution (TIME...
...Sept. 1, 1939, when Hitler told the Reichstag that Germany was at war, he designated Hermann Göring as his successor in case something should happen to him, and Rudolf Hess as the next leader if something happened to Göring. But Hess dropped first into insanity, then into Scotland, now broods his life away as a British captive. Göring has receded into obscurity, although he is still titular chief of the Luftwaffe. Many Gauleiter who used to hang on Göring's coattails have switched their allegiance to Himmler. The Gestapoman showed...