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...when Hitler was about to order German troops into the Rhineland, Fritsch led a clique of officers who opposed the move, and Hitler's reputed pledge to commit suicide if the bluff failed was said to have been given him. Next tiff between the two occurred when good Protestant Fritsch hotly defended Pastor Martin Niembller, who was being hounded by the Nazis.* In 1938 it was Fritsch who carried straight to Hitler himself the class-conscious Army's protest against Minister of War Marshal Werner von Blomberg's marriageto his stenographer. In the purge that followed both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Front or Back? | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...pper. Worse, he had a cancer, was operated on at Tiberias. Last month Father Tapper made ready to retire to the land where he was born some 60 years ago. World War I he had escaped. Last week Father Täpper was due in Cologne, in his native Rhineland, to rest his old bones-just as the French and German guns began their restless muttering along the Western Front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Galilee's King | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...Army would like that. And those Czechs, who might have been hard to hold down, they would like it, too. A shock, yes, but once more they could feel a real security. Their Führer had again played a masterful stroke, like that march into the Rhineland, like Austria, like Czechoslovakia. ... He was a Genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: In the Stomach | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...believed the French Army was ready to fight, and General Gamelin quietly went to London to tell the statesmen so. He got about the same attention that he got in 1936 from short-lived Premier Sarraut when he told the Government he could chase the Germans out of the Rhineland if they wanted him to. The thoroughgoing General would not agree to shove off, however, without ordering a general mobilization and M. Sarraut feared it was too close to the general election to risk it. The history of Adolf Hitler's aggressions dates from there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Good Grey General | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...hrer assembled his legislative yes-men to hear him tell why he had found it necessary to kill off several hundred Nazi Party men the month before. Two years later he thought it mete to explain publicly why he had ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hitler's Inning | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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