Word: stahlhelmers
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...dander of Old Paul had been rising for several days. In the first place the President of Germany, who is Honorary President of the patriotic but illegal Stahlhelm ("Steel Helmet") military organization, had quarreled on Stahlhelm's behalf with the Government of Prussia...
Knowing that Old Paul was about to begin a triumphal tour of the liberated Rhineland, Dr. Otto Braun, Socialist Prime Minister of Prussia, refused to relax his rule that Stahlhelm members may not parade or demonstrate in Rhenish Prussia, which includes such an important city as Coblenz. "This is unequal treatment which I find unbearable!" wrote the President to Dr. Braun last week and threatened to omit Prussia's end of the Rhineland from his tour...
...Reparations, some hot-headed Germans hug the fallacy that if the Fatherland would only repudiate her guilt she could then impress the Allies with the logic of refusing to pay Reparations for a crime which Germany did not commit. Such hotheads are bristling Dr. Hugenberg and his reactionary Stahlhelm ("Steel Helmet League"). With the death three weeks ago of Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann, a statesman who always preached conciliation with Germany's enemies, the Hugenbergians pulled from their pockets copies of what they call their "Liberty Law." They felt that the time was ripe to present...
...detachment of the Reichsbanner, Republican organization, swung proudly down one of Berlin's streets. In the offing, advancing threateningly, was the Stahlhelm, Monarchist men. The leader of the Republican Reichsbanner fired shots into the air with the object of dispersing the Monarchist Stahlhelm. Unable to stop the swarms of glaring Monarchists, he fired into the crowd. A Stahlhelmer fell dead. In a flash, both organizations were locked in painful, noisy, bitter conflict. Bashed-in noses, black eyes, shredded ears, large blue bruises were the wounds inflicted. The police, arriving speedily on the scene, added a number of cracked skulls...
There was no denying that the War Minister was irate. His eye glittered, his face paled, his tone exasperated. He said that the Stahlhelm and the Wehrwolf, semimilitary, monarchic, organizations, were dangerous to the safety of the State, an announcement which the Socialists welcomed. But he insisted that Germany was not fool enough to dream of war. Said...