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...Hitler hierarchy to take orders from was settled at the same time. Neither club-footed Paul Joseph Goebbels, bull-necked General Göring nor strange Captain Roehm will command them, now sole rulers of the individual provinces. Their orders will be laid down by Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick...
Lean, fanatical Dr. Wilhelm Frick, a veteran of the Munich beer hall Putsch of 1923, has long been a Nazi front ranker. Born in the Palatinate, he was Minister of Interior of Thuringia when most Nazis were discredited. He ran the State on such enthusiastically Nazi lines that the Republican Government of Chancellor Muller stopped a $60,000 a month subsidy to the Thuringian State police in an effort to get rid of the Palatinate, Thuringia, Bavaria and the rest of them...
...onetime kings and princes of Imperial German states. Under the gate arch hung with a pennoned canopy, through the palace entrance marked with the letter "W" in electric light bulbs, they trooped to salute their onetime King-Emperor. Then the black-suited company of men, led by Wilhelm, gave praise to the God of the Hohenzollerns. It was Wilhelm's 75th birthday...
...Leipzig printing house signalized the occasion by publishing a book he had written on Oriental symbols, eruditely entitled : The Chinese Monad: its History and Meaning. While Doom hummed with Monarchist delegations, Wilhelm decorated his head gardener and eight under-gardeners with the Royal Order of the House of Hohenzollern, led another religious service for his kin and house servants, inspected tons of birthday gifts including one huge wild boar (live) and bushels of congratulations. Protesting that "the only birthdays worth making memorable are those marking decades," he reminded his guests that in five years he will...
...less than memorable for Nazi Germany. Though boys on the streets sold Wilhelm's favorite flower, the blue cornflower, to help the Nazi winter relief fund, Storm Troopers broke up a Monarchists' birthday eve ball in Berlin. Other troopers cut short a ceremonial toast of onetime Imperial Army officers to Wilhelm's birthday while still others patrolled Berlin's streets denuding house fronts of the Imperial flag. Said a Nazi leader, with an eye to Nazi history books: "Hitler is the restorer of authority from above and discipline from below. He is the restorer of self...