Word: rieth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also necessary to fire the German Minister to Austria, well meaning Dr. Kurt Rieth, who had doubtless thought he was serving his Government when he undertook to dicker for the butchers and promised them safe entry into Germany. This blunder was irretrievable but it gave intuitive Chancellor Hitler one of his bright ideas. He has long been looking for a way to ease German Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen, protégé and "best comrade" of President von Hindenburg, out of his Cabinet (TIME, July 9). Impulsively Chancellor Hitler dashed off an effusive letter, "requesting you, Dear Herr von Papen...