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...that the Realmleader approved this or Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick's other drastic move last week in appointing as Berlin's Chief of Police ruthless, Jew-baiting Count Wolf von Helldorf who was once the intimate friend of the late Storm Troop Leader Ernst Roehm. Did Hitler, Germans wanted to know, approve a fresh drive for "sterilization of the unfit" launched by the Party last week with the news that German Science has produced "a harmless means of sterilizing an already pregnant mother?" Adolf Hitler, according to the Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment, was "away...
When some 77 Germans were shot during Adolf Hitler's "blood purge," they at least were accused of plotting with that plug-ugly pederast Captain Ernst Roehm (TIME, July 9). Last week Josef Stalin resorted to more drastic Bolshevik Terror, terror in its purest form. Because a member of the Soviet Politbureau or Red Big Ten had been assassinated (TIME, Dec. 10), Soviet firing squads last week mowed down 66 Russians, one a woman, who were not accused of having anything to do with Assassin Leonid Nicolaev or his crime. According to dispatches passed by the Soviet censor, "they died...
Germans could buy a queer book last week, the first Nazi Who's Who. Thumbing it through, they found bits of paper carefully pasted over the biographies of Storm Troop Commander Ernst Roehm and other prominent Nazis shot during the "blood purge.'' (TIME, July 9.) In a foreword the harassed Nazi editor explained "Political events necessitated many corrections in this volume, which already had been printed." To reassure prospective purchasers who might be afraid to buy a book containing traitors' names, no matter how carefully pasted over a line of heavy type on the title page...
Turning to internal affairs, Orator Hitler shouted that there will be no "second"' or radical Nazi revolution. "The German revolution," he roared, "is concluded!" But to radical Nazis who may have plotted in the Roehm Mutiny or may still be involved in other Nazi conspiracies he gave this pledge: "I will not proceed on the principle of causing misled little fellows to be shot. ... I will throw the ringleaders to the ground...
...insults to Adolf Hitler or the German Government; 2) offenses against "the wealthy or prosperous," provided the crime did not originate from "convictions hostile to the race or state";* 3) crimes committed from "excessive zeal" to further Nazi purposes. To ease the plight of Nazi innocents caught in the Roehm Mutiny and not yet "purged" by shooting, "My Leader" especially decreed last week that all imprisoned mutineers shall have their cases "sympathetically re-examined...