Word: schleicher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowning sensation of last week's killings came when Secret Police pushed into the swank suburban mansion of General Kurt von Schleicher, immediate predecessor of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor and the officer to whom it fell in 1918 to tell All Highest Wilhelm II that his army was no longer faithful to the Crown and that he had best flee to Holland...
General von Schleicher was for years the master intrigant and "Field Grey Eminence" of the German Reichswehr. The Hohenzollerns have always looked to him as their smartest stalking horse for a return of the Monarchy. Not long ago Paris heard rumors that Chancellor Hitler would be ousted by a military coup led by General von Schleicher...
...accession of Hitler. A War Office official, he was apparently in close touch with most of the main political actors; a soldier but obviously no Prussian, he has little love for Hindenburg. His diary is peopled almost entirely with knaves and fools. Nearest approach to a hero is Schleicher, but as even Schleicher's intelligence becomes more & more powerless to stop the Nazis. he is written off as a ''trimmer." Greatest villain of the piece is old Paul von Hindenburg, who is accused of knifing Brü ning, reluctantly abandoning his favorite von Papen, using Schleicher...
Last winter, after the Chancellorship had several times eluded Adolf Hitler's pudgy grasp, Herr Strasser, then National Organizer of the Nazi Party, decided that the fumble was likely to be permanent. Ambitious, he called secretly upon the then Chancellor, sly Lieut.-General Kurt von Schleicher, famed as "His Field Grey Eminence." Somehow or other Leader Hitler learned what Strasser and Schleicher were plotting, summoned Nazi storm troop leaders and Deputies from all over Germany to an historic Party meeting in Berlin. "Comrades," said the Leader gravely, "according to information in my possession Strasser told von Schleicher that...
Year ago not only the foreign Press but hundreds of intelligent observers in Germany honestly believed that the Junker Government of General von Schleicher and Col. von Papen had definitely ended the growth of Hitlerism in Germany. Anxious not to repeat the same mistake, observers have this year watched the fight of little Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria against Naziism with marked scepticism. They know that Austria's 6,500,000 are still nearly 50% pro-Nazi. They know that as a matter of prestige Adolf Hitler, who once roamed the streets of Vienna hungry, is willing to spend time...