Word: wilhelms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this period gifts were exchanged without an indecent hind-thought of getting a reward from Heaven in return. The Nordic man did not think of a reward for decent deeds. For us therefore, even the Christian Christmas remains a festival of Germanic love, Germanic ways and Germanic benevolence.-Governor Wilhelm Kube of Brandenburg Province...
...becoming still more drastic due to war in the Baltic, and, if the Balkans blaze up too in a Soviet grab at Bessarabia, German scarcity may soon be back to the bare bones of 1918. Significantly, last week, Vierjahresplan, official magazine of Reich Economic Four-Year Plan Director Hermann Wilhelm Göring, declared: "We must face the facts. They are the same as in 1914-18. England's power has brought German overseas trade to a complete standstill...
Kurt George Wilhelm Ludecke, onetime friend and subordinate of Adolf Hitler, had his application for U. S. citizenship turned down in a Detroit court, pending a future hearing. Reason: The judge had read Ludecke's I Knew Hitler, declared Author Ludecke "a cheap politician . . . dumb as an oyster in the shell . . . anti-everything...
...Government-possibly monarchist-with which Great Britain and France would be willing to make a quick peace on favorable terms. Scions of the Habsburg and Metternich houses were mentioned as the object of active German intrigue and Adolf Hitler was said to have summoned former German Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm for a conference at the Chancellery which became highly emotional...
Berlin correspondents quickly disposed of wild reports that Friedrich Wilhelm had been "beheaded as a traitor"-he was seen going about the capital in his usual haunts -and it was presently rumored that the Fiihrer might decide to enthrone a likely candidate as Emperor and serve under this figurehead as Chancellor-as II Duce serves under Vittorio Emanuele III. Theory of this shift would be to save the faces of Allied statesmen who may want to deal with the Nazi regime but feel they cannot do so unless some disguise-however transparent-is arranged...