Word: strasser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back in Germany, Ludecke did his aggressive best to keep Hitler out of bad company (Goring, Goebbels, Hindenburg, the industrialists), thought Roehm and Strasser the likely ones to help him. This proved a bad guess, and in 1933 Ludecke found himself in disfavor. On the day that Ludecke reached Manhattan, having escaped after eight months in a concentration camp as "Hitler's personal prisoner." he read the headlines announcing the Blood Purge. The shock left him rocking precariously on the pavement. But he had salvaged his life and a profitable store of Hitlerian anecdotes...
...summers ago at Marienbad, Czechoslovakia. Herr Wormys had reasons for his fears. Once the chief technician of the radio station near Stuttgart and an ardent Nazi, he has been for some months the secret Impresario of anti-Nazi broadcasts by Adolf Hitler's deadliest personal foe, Otto Strasser...
During Hitler's climb to power the Strasser Brothers, Gregor and Otto, were his stoutest champions among Germany's proletariat. Gregor, who came to feel that Der Reichsfiührer had betrayed the German proletariat, was shot during the Hitler blood purge (TIME, July 9). Otto escaped to Czechoslovakia with other Nazis who thought they were going to be shot, banded them together in the Anti-Nazi Black Front. Recently Realmleader Hitler's personal newsorgan, VÖlkischer Beobachter, declared that Otto's secret broadcasts from Czechoslovakia were becoming "intolerable...
Black Front broadcast procedure has been for Otto Strasser to make a violent anti-Hitler speech into a phonograph recorder, send the record to Radio Expert Wormys at the little inn. Sitting down before his powerful short-wave transmitter. Wormys would then announce "This is the Berlin Broadcasting Station," next play Otto Strasser's vitriolic attack on Adolf Hitler...
Gingerly the corps of correspondents, none of them chemists, followed Judas Strasser through a maze of chemical apparatus...