Word: stahlhelmer
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...National Opposition which includes the Fascists and Dr. Alfred Hugenberg's Nationalists, vote-splitting seemed the best strategy. They attempted in vain to collaborate on a candidate. For their candidate the Nationalists and their Steel Helmet faction then chose Colonel Theodore Düsterberg, Deputy Chairman of the Stahlhelm...
Prussia is two-thirds of Germany. Her legislature has 450 members, nearly as big as the Reichstag (577 seats). Hitlerites, members of the Stahlhelm and other extreme Nationalists recently rushed through a bill calling for a plebiscite on the question: Should the Prussian Diet be dissolved immediately as unrepresentative of Prussian opinion? The Reich Government fought it bitterly, for if the Hitlerites should gain control of the Diet it would be comparatively simple for them to gain the Reichstag as well and form a new government. Hitlerites urging the referendum were suddenly joined by their old enemies the Communists...
Other riots occurred. Policemen used their pistols at Kiel and Coblenz, at Altona, Harburg, Itzehoe, Meldorf, Halle and Breslau. In Cologne, Albert Heister, secretary of the local Stahlhelm, was walking home with a number of fellow members when they noticed a group of young Communists following them at a distance. The Stahlhelmers ran. took refuge in Heister's house. As Albert Heister turned to bar the front door the enraged Communists fired through the plate glass. Albert Heister slumped slowly to the ground with a bullet through his heart...
...Near Glogau, German Communists and members of the Stahlhelm fought in the streets last week. One member of the Stahlhelm was killed, several were wounded...
...Braun remained inflexible. Suddenly the acting Stahlhelm leaders, who had previously refused to treat with Socialist Braun, called upon him. They promised that if allowed to parade before Old Paul they would not thereafter stage military maneuvres in the Rhineland. This promise was really a Hindenburg-Stahlhelm capitulation. Dr. Braun accepted it, gave per-mission for the Stahlhelm parades. Disgruntled, Old Paul put Rhenish Prussia back on the itinerary of his triumphal tour (see below...