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Ominous indeed was the scene at the famed Reichstag Fire Trial when No. 2 Nazi Goring lost his temper and roared at Defendant George Dimitroff: "You'll be sorry yet if I catch you when you get out of prison, you scoundrel!" (TIME, Nov. 13). By a long coincidence it was the dawn of the first anniversary of the Fire last week when Nazi jailers unlocked the underground vaults where still lay three defendants at that trial, all acquitted, all Bulgarians, all Communists: Dimitroff, Wassil Taneff and Blagoi Popoff. (The fourth defendant, Marinus van der Lubbe, was convicted...
...promise, since the nations of Europe had all vowed to preserve forever Belgian independence and territorial integrity. But nine years later a madman in a crooked street fired a shot which found its mark. The Chancellor of Imperial Germany, a gentle, weak, and honest man, explained to the Reichstag that the nation had her back to the wall and could think of only one thing--how to back her way through. The German General Staff had long planned where to hack and the tearing of a scrap of paper resounded in every country of the world...
...uniform, the 661 brown-shirted Deputies of the Nazi Reichstag last week passed three readings of a bill in five minutes, then hopped to their feet and passed the bill itself by acclamation. Even ten years ago the idea of such a bill would have turned any German statesman's hair white. By it the German States lost all legislative power, all ability to act in any way except as agents of the Reich, may soon lose even their traditional boundaries. The bill provided...
...Austria swung higher & higher, louder & louder last week. Adolf Hitler's first anniversary in power, the day for which all Austria waited and worried, came and went with only the popping of a few harmless paper bombs in Vienna's Stephansplatz. In his anniversary speech before the Reichstag, Chancellor Hitler dismissed the Austrian crisis thus...
Georgi Dimitroff was the sensation of the Reichstag Fire Trial (TIME, Sept. 25, et seq.). With fiery Bulgar wit he conducted his own defense, taunted Prussian Premier General Hermann Wilhelm Göring into a jittering rage and finally forced State Prosecutor Werner to ask his acquittal...