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...Storm Troopers assumed that Germany's Supreme Court could not do less last week than order death for the five defendants in the Reichstag fire trial as all five were Communists of sorts. "The Reichstag fire is the most shameful crime in all history," declared Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Göring two days before the Supreme Court's verdict was expected. "The prisoners who sit in the dock at Leipzig are far worse than ordinary criminals!" That clinched the death sentences in the minds of simple Storm Troopers. Few of them knew or cared that State Prosecutor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death To A Dutchman | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...rise to Chancellor. While this closing episode was being filmed excited Storm Troopers beat up a U. S. spectator who failed to salute the Nazi banner. To salute it as it flashed on the screen up popped last week's entire audience, including former Crown Prince Wilhelm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Music by Hanfstaengl | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

Stomping up onto the stage with theatre spotlights trained upon him. Speaker General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, 210-lb. Premier of Prussia, took his place on a swastika-decked dais and waived the formality of a roll call. It did not matter who was present, since everyone was going to vote "Ja." To set all Germany an example of speed, General Goring startlingly dispensed with even the Nazi anthem, the "Horst Wessel Song" (see col. 1). In crisp, commanding sentences, shouted in parade ground tones, Speaker Goring "requested" the Deputies to leap to their feet in unison when they wished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pop-Up Reichstag | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

...State of Prussia swarms with moppets godfathered by that baby-kissing Marxist, Dr. Otto Braun. For twelve years he was Prussia's Premier. He fled from Germany upon the rise of Adolf Hitler, languishes today with other Socialist refugees in Switzerland. Last week bullnecked General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Prussia's Nazi Premier, decided to do something about the "Braun Babies." Many of their parents, declared General Goring, must have seen by this time the errors of Marxism and become good Nazis. "Provided the parents' political attitude is not objectionable," he announced, "I am ready to take over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Braun Babies | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

...lawyer combed Austria by telephone and telegraph for his last hope, Catholic President Wilhelm Miklas. Locating him in the far Alps opening a new mountain railway, he begged the President to stretch the boy's life beyond the allotted three hours. As pious in a crisis as Chancellor Dollfuss, President Miklas went to mass, spent half an hour alone praying for Divine guidance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Last Minute | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

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