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Guessing that the pseudo-apostolic Reichsführer would relish an attack on a Hohenzollern, blatant Der Deutsche, organ of the Nazi Labor Front, flayed onetime Crown Prince Wilhelm for collecting fat fees from sportsmen who lease the shooting rights on his Silesian estates. Calling this a "scandal," Der Deutsche demanded that unemployed persons be settled on the estates as farmers, "thus creating thousands of jobs and millions in new values...
Jail is the penalty for shouting "Heil Hitler!" ("Hail Hitler!") or any other Nazi slogan in Czechoslovakia. Last week Prague chuckled at the zeal of a town judge in Jagerndorf. Before the judge was brought a prosperous Silesian businessman arrested in peculiar circumstances. He pleaded that the wind had blown off his hat, that he was chasing it shouting "Mein Hütle!" ("My hat!"). "You were not!" snapped the arresting policeman. "You were yelling 'Heil Hitler!'" Taking the policeman's word, the judge sentenced the hat-chaser to one month in jail...
...Still standing are the outer walls of Silesian sandstone and much of the interior, ornately marbled. France paid for the whole building as part of the Franco-Prussian War indemnity. Above the main door a grim stone figure of St. George frowns with the face of Iron Chancellor Bismarck...
...five Nazis were sentenced to death at Beuthen, Silesia, for so beating a Communist workman named Pietzruch that he died of wounds. That there should be no charge of discrimination, several members of the republican Reichsbanner were imprisoned for from 18 months to four years for brutality in other Silesian riots...
Hauptmann is recognized as the most important German dramatist of the last half century and his name is usually mentioned together with that of Ibsen. His home is in his native Silesian mountains...