Word: thuringia
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...Deutsche Christen element among Protestants, though in numerical minority, has flourished temporally with Nazi backing. But its churches are three-fourths empty. Typical Deutsche Christen bishop is Dr. Martin Sasse of Thuringia, who declares: "We would still go on with the Führer even if he closed the church doors before us. In Germany, there is no life except with the Führer. . . . The present-day task of theological science is to provide a religious foundation for the new State ethics...
Over not only the Black Forest, but also the bosky Harz Mountains, the Grunewald near Berlin, woods in Thuringia, ranged bombers heavy with incendiaries. The crews could not be certain of exact objectives, but peppered certain marked areas with "nice little patches of fire." At least one crew knew it was near an objective, for Germans paid it the compliment of aiming Archies at its plane. Said the pilot: "You wouldn't normally expect a lot of guns to be cracking off at you from the middle of a forest...
...Wilhelm Frick, oldest (62) high-ranking Nazi. Sickly Wilhelm Frick did not serve in the last War. As chief of the Munich Political Police he took a hand in the 1923 Putsch, earned a 16-month prison sentence for his trouble. In 1930, as Minister of the Interior of Thuringia, he appointed Hitler a police officer, thereby made him a German citizen...
...itself from its founders. Now it had 108,000 dues-paying members. Now it had twelve members in the Reichstag (out of a total of 490). It had 13 deputies in the Berlin City Council. It won more than eleven percent of the total vote in an election in Thuringia. It had become important enough to be courted by Hugenberg, leader of the powerful Nationalists...
...until 1929 did National Socialism win its first absolute majority in a city election (at Coburg) and make its first significant showing in a provincial election (in Thuringia). But from 1928 on the party almost continually gained in electoral strength. In the Reichstag elections of 1928 it polled 809,000 votes. Two years later 6,401,016 Germans voted for National Socialist deputies, while in 1932 the vote was 13,732,779. While still short of a majority, the vote was nevertheless impressive proof of the power of the man and his movement...