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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Summus Episcopus. During the German Protestant Church struggle between Nazi and non-Nazi factions (TIME, June 12, et seq.) Premier Göring pitched in by announcing that he had assumed the ancient religious title of the Kings of Prussia, Summns Episcopus of the Prussian Protestant Church. By virtue of this office Captain Göring kept up maximum Nazi pressure on Protestants in Prussia, during and after the carefully fixed church plebiscite which was "won" by the Nazi "German Christians" (TIME, July 31). Fortnight ago the church elders elected as 'Primate of Prussia" at Premier Göring...
Last week Premier Göring, who has already barred Jews from all the higher offices in Prussia, issued a decree requiring even municipal authorities to furnish evidence that neither they nor their spouses possessed so much as a single Jewish grandparent. By another decree he barred from Prussia's high schools and universities "all Marxist and antinational students," an order sure to be enforced in such a way as to bar Jews-since Nazis hold that Jews are all antinational internationalists...
...Killjoys." On the labor front Premier Göring has taken steps to squash "defeatism," denning it as "any kind of work or deed that is contrary to praise of the present regime. . . . Persons making such remarks may be designated as killjoys. . . . Killjoys will be treated as camouflaged Marxists" [i. e. marched off to Nazi prison camps...
...officials, employes and workers," ordered Premier Göring, "shall watch for killjoys and report them. Failure to make such charges will be regarded as a demonstration of solidarity with the killjoys or agitators...
...Miracle of East Prussia." Since such threats, typical of Nazi efforts to deal with serious problems by verbiage, have not improved employment in Prussia generally, a dramatic campaign was being urged forward in East Prussia last week by Premier Göring to make a great show of "obliterating unemployment...