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...first of a series of ten lectures will be delivered by Professor Wilhelm Kochler on Wednesday, October 11th at four o'clock in the Renaissance Hall of the Germanic Museum...
...week's big moment came when presiding Judge Wilhelm Bünger introduced the written confession of Defendant van der Lubbe made just after the Reichstag fire, led him to acknowledge it in open court. Point by point the bullet-headed Judge went over every detail of the fire. No longer laughing foolishly, Defendant van der Lubbe sat listlessly, head bowed, occasionally broke into foolish giggles. When prodded, he agreed. The story...
Among Jews who waited too long in Germany is not numbered smart Emil Ludwig (né Cohn), best-selling biographer of Napoleon, Bismarck and Wilhelm II. He has had a Swiss home for years, skipped Germany just before Adolf Hitler seized the powers of Dictator. Last week Dr. Ludwig sailed into Manhattan on the sleek French liner Paris. With an air of detachment proper in so prosperous an exile as himself he warned Jews and other citizens of the world not to blind themselves to the fact that "Hitler suits the German character. . . . What is going on there...
...country was given a new Cabinet. Kindly old President Wilhelm Miklas gave little "Millimetternich" (Dollfuss) carte blanche to reform the Government, which was promptly reshuffled to the following lineup...
...instigated and helped by Nazi firebrands (TIME, Sept. 25). Six red-robed German judges scowled solemnly on the bench, reporters sharpened pencils, lawyers ruffled through their briefs, the trial went on and Marinus van der Lubbe went on laughing. "Are you a Communist or a Socialist?" snapped Presiding Judge Wilhelm Bünger. "Yes-and no-I have my own views." "Why do you laugh?" "At the trial in general." The Nazi object in the entire performance was not only to blame the five Communist defendants for the fire, but to show the existence of a great international Communist plot...