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...Berlin the Nazi Press all but screamed despair. "This system of treaties," said the Berliner Tageblatt, "means the attainment of French dominance over Europe with the assent of Russia and Poland." In his personal newsorgan the No. 2 Nazi, General Hermann Wilhelm Göring, raged against "This fad for pacts, this pactomania!" In another groaning outburst the Berliner Tageblatt declared: "Thus France has arrived at last where Clemenceau wanted...
...700th birthday of their fusty little city, proud burghers of Emmerich feted the dressiest Nazi. Beefy Prussian Premier General Hermann Wilhelm Göring constantly designs new uniforms to button around his barrel midriff and is said to have caused the Queen of Siam to remark, "He must eat a lot of rice?but no, in Germany it is potatoes." Utterly dazzled by Premier Göring's appearance at Emmerich, the local Tageblatt dashed off a fashion note which Czechoslovak papers picked up last week and printed under mocking headlines...
...German Reichstag, or slightly more than 1% of its membership, are known to have been shot during Chancellor Hitler's blood purge (TIME, July 9). Thanking their stars last week, the other 99% turned out to cheer him. They were under no compulsion except that Reichstag Speaker Hermann Wilhelm Göring, whose secret police did much of the shooting, announced that any Deputy who did not appear would have to produce a doctor's certificate of illness...
...Born. To Wilhelm II, 75, onetime Emperor of Germany: a great-grand-daughter, first child of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, eldest son of the onetime Crown Prince, and of Dorothea von Salviati, a commoner whom Prince Wilhelm married in June...
...Acknowledged discoverer of x-rays, in 1895, was Wilhelm Konrad von Rentgen (1845?...