Word: reichstags
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...give this [Germany's] claim [to equality] documentary form," he continued in ringing tones, "I decided to beg the Reich President to dissolve the Reichstag and give the German people opportunity for making an historic affirmation. . . . May the world, from such an affirmation, gain the conviction that the German people, in this battle for equality and honor, declare itself completely at one with the Government!" "Glory Bedecked Opponents." Cannily the Chancellor, who knows that Germany is in no condition to withstand a preventive war launched from France today, hailed in his speech "the French soldier, our old glory-bedecked...
While the atmosphere of the Reichstag trial is saturated with undentable tragedy, it has had its lighter moments. Some of these have been furnished by Georg Dimitroff, the Bulgarian Communist who is both defendant and lawyer in his own defence. Dimitroff has been a thorn in the red-robed sides of the presiding judges because of his unfortunate custom of interposing questions to the witnesses and assailing the peculiar methods of the court. On several occasions, after he had taken over the procedure and cross-examined Nazis into embarassing admissions, the session was hurriedly adjourned to prevent more...
...week's big moment came when presiding Judge Wilhelm Bünger introduced the written confession of Defendant van der Lubbe made just after the Reichstag fire, led him to acknowledge it in open court. Point by point the bullet-headed Judge went over every detail of the fire. No longer laughing foolishly, Defendant van der Lubbe sat listlessly, head bowed, occasionally broke into foolish giggles. When prodded, he agreed. The story...
...evening of the fire Marinus van der Lubbe bought packages of patented kindling coal, climbed the outside of the Reichstag building at 9 p. m. and entered a balcony window of the deputies' restaurant. He lit one box of the kindling coal, threw it on a table behind the bar. Next he set fire to a plush curtain, a couple of table cloths and his own shirt. In the men's washroom he had apparently no trouble in causing a pile of used towels and his own vest to burst into flames. Police testimony had shown that...
Expert testimony had tended to show that it was impossible for Marinus van der Lubbe alone to have fired the Reichstag, as his confession insisted. Object of the prosecution was to show that the other defendants were his accomplices. Object of the defense was to show that Nazi Storm Troopers instigated and abetted Marinus van der Lubbe, so that Chancellor Hitler could win the March election on the issue of a Communist plot to seize the State...