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...Catholics of Germany, from the Cardinals down to the last priest, wished they knew where Der Führer was last week. Was it with or without his approval that the No. 2 Nazi, Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Göring, had ordered his secret police to eavesdrop at every church and report for later punishment clerics who "falsely employ the authority of their spiritual position for political purposes"-i. e. criticize the Nazi State. "The Church dare not," declared General Göring in his passionate and somewhat incoherent decree, "call upon God against the State-an atrocity that...
Exceedingly devout, Dr. Schuschnigg, although hospitalized, insisted on arising three times to pray at his wife's coffin. Meanwhile, since Austria has hung on the brink of revolution ever since the assassination of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss (TIME, Aug. 6), hoary President Wilhelm Miklas in consternation summoned the Cabinet, while Vienna buzzed with rumors that Nazi agents had tampered with the steering gear of the Schuschnigg automobile...
...were ordered by Cabinet decree to obey whatever instructions Reich authorities may issue "for protection against air attack." In practice this means that foreigners must now rush about with Germans, donning gas masks, popping into cellars, and having their homes rummaged by Nazi inspectors whenever Air Minister General Hermann Wilhelm Goring orders one of his realistic mock air raids...
...been replaced by the principle 'no crime without punishment.' This should obligate German men of the law to a new gratitude to Der Führer. For the first time the concept of 'love of Der Führer' has become a legal concept." ¶ Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick received final authority to settle all German church disputes...
...battalion of grey Reichswehr troops stood as a guard of honor before the door. In public squares all over Berlin, all over Germany, other crowds stood gaping at the trumpet horns of loudspeakers. Inside the Opera House the brown-shirted Reichstag had been called to order by paunchy Hermann Wilhelm Göring. It had risen, once to honor the memory of Bavarian Minister of Education Hans Schem, killed in an airplane accident, once to do the same for the late Marshal Pilsudski of Poland. It had welcomed the newly elected delegates from the Saar making their first appearance...