Word: strasser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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News again last week was the broad-shouldered Judas of the Nazi Party, strap ping Gregor Strasser...
Last winter, after the Chancellorship had several times eluded Adolf Hitler's pudgy grasp, Herr Strasser, then National Organizer of the Nazi Party, decided that the fumble was likely to be permanent. Ambitious, he called secretly upon the then Chancellor, sly Lieut.-General Kurt von Schleicher, famed as "His Field Grey Eminence." Somehow or other Leader Hitler learned what Strasser and Schleicher were plotting, summoned Nazi storm troop leaders and Deputies from all over Germany to an historic Party meeting in Berlin. "Comrades," said the Leader gravely, "according to information in my possession Strasser told von Schleicher that...
Thus confronted, the 30 deputies spurned Judas Strasser and repledged their loyalty to Leader Hitler who three weeks later became Chancellor. Because he knew too many Brownshirt secrets, Judas Strasser was not punished. Later, recalling that in Munich Herr Strasser used to keep a drugstore. Chancellor Hitler made him Commissar (Nazi supervisor) of the great Berlin chemical firm Schering-Kahlbaum A. G. Last week Commissar Strasser suddenly invited all Berlin correspondents to visit his plant...
Rumors flew that Chancellor von Schleicher had offered to make Herr Strasser the Reich Minister of Interior if Herr Hitler would consent, that Leader Hitler had refused to let any Fascist enter a Cabinet until he, Hitler, should be Chancellor and that Herr Strasser, disgusted by this stand, had made his feelings known in the only way he could. Herr Feder and about 50 of the Party's 195 Reichstag Deputies were said to support Herr Strasser, arguing that it is madness to deny job-hungry Fascists government jobs...
...blunt communique, Osaf ("Supreme Leader") Hitler claimed again that his leadership of the Party is supreme, personally assumed the office resigned by Herr Strasser and declared: "I shall soon make known new objectives and orders . . . for increasing the striking power of our movement...