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...case of General Kurt von Schleicher, onetime Chancellor and Defense Minister, Military Chaplain Schleigel announced: "I will officiate at the funeral whether it is forbidden or not!" Elderly retired brother officers of General von Schleicher mustered up courage to send telegrams indicating disbelief in the Government's charge that their comrade and his wife had been "shot resisting arrest." Some of these telegrams, bold but not too bold, used a word combination possible only in German, expressing sorrow at the "comradeassassination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Burning & Burial | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

...funeral chapel at Lankwitz's Park Cemetery in Berlin went in full uniform with all his medals General Baron Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord. who was the Reichswehr's brilliant commander under Chancellor von Schleicher. Floral tributes rolled up by the truckload and Military Chaplain Schleigel was striding resolutely up to begin the service when he was nabbed by Secret Police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Burning & Burial | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

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