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Revolt by Spring? Nearest thing to a blueprint for revolution in the Reich was outlined at Paris last week by Otto Strasser whose famed brother Gregor, Deputy Leader of the Nazi Party as recently as 1932, was slain in the Fiihrer's "purge" of dissident Nazis two years later. German secret police charges that Otto Strasser instigated the recent Munich Nazi Beer Hall bombing (TIME, Nov.. 20) caused the Swiss Government to expel him last week. "I thought at first that my friends had been implicated . . . when I heard the false reports that Hess [Deputy Nazi Party -With...
...Otto Strasser, whose brother Gregor fought Hitler for control of the Nazi Party before being shot in the "Roehm Purge" in 1934, has completed plans to establish a floating radio station aboard a ship which will soon push out from its English base and cruise in the North Sea, whence it will send anti-Nazi propaganda into Germany...
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...
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...