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...Reichstag fire was set by Communists, police promptly charged. Over a nationwide radio hookup the Minister of Interior for Prussia, blustering Nazi Captain Hermann Wilhelm Goring, cried: "The Reichstag fire was to have been the signal for the outbreak of open civil war! . . . The Communists had in readiness 'terror squads' of 200 each. . . . These were to commit their dastardly acts disguised as units of our own Nazi Storm Troops and the Stahlhelm. . . . The women and children of high Government officials were to have been kidnapped as hostages and used in the civil war as 'living shields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: National Revolution! | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

Constitution Crimped. With the Reichstag fire as his excuse, weary old President Paul von Hindenburg signed a decree giving Chancellor Hitler & Cabinet a tyrant's powers. Totally suspended by this decree are the following seven articles of the German Constitution (some of them already modified by previous laws & decrees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: National Revolution! | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

Amid transports of joy Chancellor Hitler announced that henceforth the Reichstag will no longer meet in liberal, proletarian Berlin but in imperial, aristocratic Potsdam. On April 1 the new Reichstag will convene for business in the Garrison Church at Potsdam, a national military shrine in which Frederick the Great lies buried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: National Revolution! | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

General Massacre? Meanwhile Russian, French, Scandinavian and British newspapers reached press-gagged Berlin with reports that it was not Communisms but the Nazis themselves who fired the Berlin Reichstag-for reasons only too obvious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: National Revolution! | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

...Moscow Izvestia, while she telephoned the Soviet Ambassador. Bursting in. the "auxiliaries" ransacked Dr. Keith's rooms for two hours, dragged her off to jail. After the Soviet Government had officially demanded Correspondent Keith's release, she was turned loose. Meanwhile more than 350 German Communists (including Reichstag Deputies) were jailed and Berlin police boasted that if Professor Albert Einstein should return from California they could arrest him since he had once supported Communism by testifying for a Communist in court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: National Revolution! | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

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