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Seats held by Socialists in the Reichstag, where they are the second largest party, were declared abrogated. All over Germany last week Socialist deputies were ousted from State diets. Finally membership in the Socialist Party was decreed by Dr. Frick to be "naturally incompatible with State employees' receiving salaries, wages or pensions from the public funds." Thus Socialists hereafter must either serve the State without pay or quit their jobs...
...Suppression by decree of the immunity from arrest of Reichstag Deputies contained in Article 37 of the German Constitution, after which Nazi police jailed last week such prominent Socialist Deputies as Jewish Dr. Paul Löbe, for twelve years Speaker of the Reichstag who once called Herr Hitler "that Slovene with bloody fingers...
...Most famed utterance of any German statesman in the 20th Century was "Necessity knows no law" by Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg to the Reichstag...
Meanwhile came Adolf Hitler's Reichstag speech and the sharp veering of German policy peacewards. Some 300,000 men massed in the execution field by the great Schlageter cross last week, the greatest single crowd Western Germany has ever seen, but the ceremony was mild as ginger beer. By advice of counsel Adolf Hitler and former Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm stayed away. Wilhelm of Doom sent a wreath, but the only Hohenzollern representative was fat Prince August Wilhelm ("Auwi") in his Nazi uniform. Chief oration came from bull-necked Wilhelm Hermann Goring who rattled no sabres, contented himself with...
Three o'clock that afternoon the galleries and orchestra of the Kroll Opera House, temporary seat of the Reichstag, were jammed. The entire diplomatic corps was there; deputies and Nazi officials jammed the aisles. Prominent in the distinguished visitors' gallery was Former Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, in uniform. In his brown shirt, Adolf Hitler soberly mounted the rostrum and began to read his speech, seldom lifting his eyes from his manuscript, indulging in none of his usual oratorical flourishes. Excerpts...