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...last week, and apparently General von Fritsch thought he had the Führer at the point of capitulation, the whole course of current German history would have been altered. Herr Hitler, with his mystique momentarily shattered, decided in the greatest excitement not to call a session of the Reichstag which he was to have addressed. He might next have sent for General von Fritsch and capitulated, but instead he sent for Nazi Heinrich Himmler, chief of the Secret Political Police, and General von Fritsch, the Army commander-in-chief, was soon reported placed under arrest. Whether it was ordinary...
...adjoining Germany, just after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor, Mr. Gordon was Counselor of the U. S. Embassy during feverish weeks while the Reichstag was burned down and the Nazis pursued their bludgeoning Revolution. With the then British Ambassador to Germany Sir Eric Phipps vigorous Mr. Gordon teamed and they were long the only two diplomats in Berlin who stickled for their nationals' rights and stood up to the Nazis. They are credited with having persuaded that non-Nazi German gentleman, Baron Constantin von Neurath, that it was his duty to stay on as Foreign Minister when, upset...
Harvard's Professor-designate Brüning today bears a few traces of the days when, from his offices in Radziwill Palace, he governed all Germany. A Catholic who entered the Reichstag as a Centrist Deputy some years after the Republic was set up, Dr. Bruning accepted the Chancellorship in 1930 from old Paul von Hindenburg to stave off and compromise with what the President then regarded as the Nazi Menace. In his two stormy years of office, Chancellor Bruning invoked Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, unwittingly showed Adolf Hitler how to govern Germany without the Reichstag...
Bruening entered the Reichstag in 1924 as a member of the Catholic Center party, and remained there until called to the chancellorship in 1930. While in that position one of his policies was for complete payment of the war reparations through internal economic measures...
...burning of the Berlin Reichstag, said Hitler, "is the beginning." Twelve hours later he was the autocrat of Germany. In the U. S. 120,000,000 citizens were groaning: "Would the Depression never...