Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister Field Marshal von Blomberg (TIME, Jan. 24). These extremely private nuptials occurred in a Berlin marriage clerk's office and the War Minister's witnesses were No. 1 Nazi Hitler, No. 2 Nazi Göring. Their presence was sufficient authority, so Blomberg appeared to have thought, for the match. But the generals snorted that not even a lieutenant would have been permitted to wed "socially impossible" Miss Erika Gruhn, a stenographer whose father is a carpenter and whose mother is a licensed masseuse...
Defense of the capital lay in the Fifth Regiment's hands. Few thought it could succeed, least of all the Leftist Cabinet, then headed by Socialist Extremist Francisco Largo Caballero. Packing up in haste, the Cabinet fled the capital secretly for Valencia, leaving official instructions for greying, amiable, José Miaja to defend Madrid or surrender as he thought best. At this point the Communist leaders of the Fifth Regiment issued a historic manifesto to all Madrid citizens telling them to build barricades in the streets, to fill bottles with gasoline for use as homemade incendiary bombs against tanks...
...week of General von Fritsch et al.-for clearly they were facing the Dictator with the fact that he had been the chief accomplice in uniting a German Field Marshal with the daughter of a masseuse. According to best-posted Berlin sources, the canny German generals used what they thought was their advantage over the crestfallen Fiihrer-who maintained that he had been "duped" by Bridegroom von Blomberg-to open a blunt discussion of the many points on which Army leaders have long differed with the Nazis...
...smoothly. . . ." If Adolf Hitler had capitulated to the generals on these points last week, and apparently General von Fritsch thought he had the Führer at the point of capitulation, the whole course of current German history would have been altered. Herr Hitler, with his mystique momentarily shattered, decided in the greatest excitement not to call a session of the Reichstag which he was to have addressed. He might next have sent for General von Fritsch and capitulated, but instead he sent for Nazi Heinrich Himmler, chief of the Secret Political Police, and General von Fritsch, the Army commander...
This meant that the time had come for any forces in Germany which thought they could overthrow the Nazis to revolt or finally be crushed. At latest dispatches no revolt had occurred and none seemed in prospect, but the crisis had not passed without rumors that Army circles had "examined the advisability of announcing that a Jew had assassinated Hitler"-something which may yet be tried. On the surface of events in Berlin this week, Adolf Hitler had won by a single bold stroke a major victory of his career. It was particularly noticed that he had not made General...