Word: reichswehr
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Sourest of Germans on Joy Day were group leaders of the ordinary S. A. Storm Troops, long since fallen from the Führer's favor. They now seem destined to brownshirt oblivion as a new Nazi Army bursts out into field grey under Reichswehr officers of War renown (see p. 23). Last week smart Adolf Hitler, when he decided to make the Great News, first ordered S. A. Storm Troop leaders to hurry from all parts of the Fatherland to the town in which he knew they could make least trouble. Oberammergau. There, after the news broke, passion...
...brought all the way from Morocco to vote in the Saar plebiscite (TIME. Jan. 21). have not been seen since by their French officers. Came news last week that these 65 deserters each received a Nazi bonus of 5,000 marks ($200), have enlisted in the Fatherland's Reichswehr...
...matinee and evening tickets for the State Opera found that theoretically they could get their money back. Practically the entire Opera district was walled off by police, soldiers and Nazi troopers. Standing shoulder to shoulder down the curbstones, they formed living cordons between which the snorting motor cars of Reichswehr officers and Nazi leaders raced. Police and troops snapped to salute as sky-blue uniformed General Goring dashed up, beaming and bowing in response to cheers which a foreign correspondent described as "unuttered." (The writer was later rebuked by the Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment for such "base cynicism...
...been locked out, this statement seemed calculated to multiply the volume of "foreign lies." As editors abroad demanded facts which their men in Berlin simply could not get, slow leaks from Germans sworn to secrecy produced a composite rumor which fitted together fairly well. The rumor: Germany's Reichswehr has been demanding a show-down on the death of onetime Chancellor General Kurt von Schleicher, shot with his wife by Nazis during the Blood Purge (TIME, July 9). The General's regiment has demanded that either something be proved against von Schleicher, so that his name...
Ever since he purged his Party in blood, Realmleader Adolf Hitler has shown a jittery eagerness to receive from as many Germans as possible great oaths of personal fealty. The whole Reichswehr from privates to generals cried "I swear by God this holy oath!" (TIME, Aug. 13). So has the Navy, the brownshirt Storm Troops, black-pantalooned Special Guards, the police. Finally last week Realmleader Hitler decided to take no further chances on the unsworn loyalty of the Germans who now know him best, his Cabinet...