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Word: swastica (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin Communists and Hitlerites scuffled in the streets. Thirty people were arrested. Five Communists and one police-man were pinked. In Brunswick, 75,000 Hitlerites assembled to receive new swastica standards from their chief. Intoxicated by blaring bands, shouting orators, and the roar of airplane motors the young Brownshirts got completely out of hand, staged an impromptu raid of the Communist workmen's quarters of the city. Street barricades were thrown up, pistols cracked, brickbats hurtled through the air. At least 15 men were gravely wounded. One Col. Hoffmann, former commandant of the fortress of Ingolstadt, was expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Eliza Bruning | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

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