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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holy Symbol!" In menacing tones General Göring then read out three new decree laws. The first ended the clumsy arrangement under which the German tricolor and the Nazi swastika have been flown together as national flags. Henceforth Germany's sole flag is the swastika. "It is the anti-Jewish symbol of the world!" thundered General Göring amid deafening cheers. "A soldier from the front lines, Adolf Hitler, pulled us out of the dirt and brought us back to honor. . . . The swastika has become for us a holy symbol!" This, Germans considered, completely answered a Jewish judge in Manhattan...
Called to order shortly after 9 p. m. by the No. 2 Nazi, beefy General Hermann Wilhelm Göring among whose countless titles is President of the Reichstag, Germany's 600 Deputies first waived all the Reichstag's rules of procedure and voted to place themselves "under the leadership principle." Thus they approved in advance whatever decrees from Realmleader Hitler might be read out to them by President Göring...
Citizenship, Blood & Honor. The second decree read out by General Göring is the National Citizenship Law. This divides Germans into "citizens"' (with such rights as suffrage) and "members" (rights not defined). Jews under this law are automatically "members,'' and German "citizens" will be degraded to that status if they are found to be Communists or otherwise "unworthy...
...implications of this proviso struck the German Reichstag so forcibly that Deputies clutched their quaking midriffs and the whole chamber roared with Homeric laughter until tears of mirth glistened on many a cheek. Banging down his gavel President Göring boomed: "No Jew can insult Germany...
...familiar selection in the volume is Robert Davis' excellent story of the Fitzsimmons v. Corbett fight, beginning when Corbett, meeting Fitzsimmons doing roadwork, airily refused to shake hands with him. Sentimental, touchy Fitzsimmons was hurt, brooded over the slight, refused to shake hands when they met in the ring. He told Robert Davis he would win in the seventh, then changed it to the 14th. In the 14th his blow to the solar plexus left Corbett retching and helpless and Fitzsimmons champion of the world. After Corbett had been counted out Fitzsimmons offered again to shake hands with...