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Nazi police with pistols in their belts first swooped down on Germany's famed Stahlhelm (Steel Helmets), organization of World War veterans headed by Labor Minister Franz Seldte, retired soda water manufacturer. The 1,000,000 steel helmet troopers, whom Adolf Hitler once barred from joining his Storm detachments, were told that they must join the brownshirt Storm Battalions and obey hereafter only Chancellor Hitler. Similarly dissolved and merged were the 10,000 green-shirted youths organized by Nationalist Leader Dr. Alfred Hugenberg as his party's "Battle Ring...
...Geneva the Nazi delegate to the Disarmament Conference, Rudolf Nadolnv, locked horns with French and British delegates on the question of Germany's right to rearm, and whether or not to count the Stahlhelm and Nazi Storm Troopers among the effectives of the German army. Italy, long a German ally in disarmament squabbles, suddenly sided with her War-time allies by announcing that for her part she was willing to have her Blackshirts numbered with her regular army...
Eight months ago while the Hitlerites scrabbled for power, their chief news- paper, Der Angriff, published a juicy scoop: Lieut. Col. Theodore Düsterberg, Imperial General Staff veteran, drillmaster and second-in-command of the Stahlhelm, veterans' organization, had a Jewish grandfather (TIME, Sept. 19). It was expected that this news alone would be sufficient to force Col. Düsterberg's resignation. Not so; the Stahlhelm rallied round their leader with a proud announcement from their Berlin commander. Major Franz von Stephani: "The Stahlhelm does not judge men by their ancestors but by their deeds...
...that, in the Chancellor's own words, "No one should go hungry on this day." Restaurants, beer gardens and Nazi headquarters who had promised to distribute free food ran out of supplies early, but it was a wonderful feast while it lasted. Soldiers, police, storm troopers and Stahlhelm members paraded all day long. Proudly officials at the Chancellery displayed a birthday message from the Reichspräsident, signed "In loyal comradeship, believe me, your devoted VON HINDENBURG...
...Germans under arms. Pistols and in many cases rifles were issued to some 60,000 so-called "auxiliary Prussian police" made up as follows: 50% ordinary troopers from the Nazi Sturmabteilung; 30% picked Nazi shock troops from the Schutzstaffel, Hitler's Praetorian Guard; 20% members of the Stahlhelm ("Steel Helmets"), War veterans' association whose leader is Minister of Labor Herr Franz Seldte, rich bottler of soda water. With astounding boldness the State ordered that men drafted as "auxiliaries" while holding jobs shall continue to be paid their full wages, irrespective of how much or little time police duties...