Word: schleicher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abroad demanded facts which their men in Berlin simply could not get, slow leaks from Germans sworn to secrecy produced a composite rumor which fitted together fairly well. The rumor: Germany's Reichswehr has been demanding a show-down on the death of onetime Chancellor General Kurt von Schleicher, shot with his wife by Nazis during the Blood Purge (TIME, July 9). The General's regiment has demanded that either something be proved against von Schleicher, so that his name can be stricken in dishonor from the regimental rolls, or that the General's innocence be acknowledged...
...prosecution of der Fuhrer on the specific grounds among others, that the laws of humanity and of conscience were violated on June 30, that acts at that time were barbaric, and that the sanctity of the home was violated, such as in the case of General von Schleicher...
According to Chancellor Hitler he was and is the champion of the career Reichswehr generals and President von Hindenburg. The nefarious plotters, he said, included onetime Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher, Reichswehr careerist par excellence, Captain Roehm and "a foreign diplomat." Simple Storm Troopers, declared the Chancellor, knew nothing of this plotted coup against the Reichswehr. They naively supposed that what was wanted was a "new and in this case a bloody uprising?'The Night of the Long Knives'?as it was gruesomely described...
...have orders from above!" they barked. Pushing aside the Chaplain and General von Hammerstein, they seized the coffins of General and Frau von Schleicher and carted them off. Other Secret Police chased mourners away from the empty graves. For 48 hours the von Schleicher family knew not what had become of their dead. Then more Secret Police arrived...
...forbidden to give out any information," they ordered. "Here are two urns. They contain the ashes." Fearfully the von Schleicher kin buried the urns in a grave over which they dared not place the smallest cross or mark...