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When, after a year or two, democracy has got started on a local basis, regional democratic governments could be built upon it, either might be hoped that some kind of following the lines of the 35 electoral districts of the Weimar Republic (which Hitler adopted as his Gau districts), or following the lines of 17 "Lands" of the Weimar Republic or the 25 States of the Bismarckian...
When, after a year or two, democracy has got started on a local basis, regional democratic governments could be built upon it, either might be hoped that some kind of following the lines of the 35 electoral districts of the Weimer Republic (which Hitler adopted as his Gau districts), or following the lines of 17 "Lands" of the Weimar Republic or the 25 States of the Bismarekian...
Alsace Restored. For Alsace Hitler had another Putsch & purge expert, Gauleiter and Provincial Governor Robert Heinrich Wagner of Baden. Dishonorably discharged from the German Army for his part in the Beerhall Putsch of 1923, he became a full-time Rhineland agitator and Gau-heeler for Hitler...
...impressed," was generally predicted. While Berlin applauded approvingly, French Cabinet members denounced "unwieldy democratic procedure," demanded the reduction of "party strife and intrigues to a minimum," proclaimed the return of "authority, sovereignty and prestige" to the Government. France was well on the way to becoming Hitler's Gallic Gau...
...ceremonies of last week were designed to get pickled King Sisowath finally into the presence of that being who appeared on earth as Gau ama (circa 480 B.C.) and was deified as the serene, immortal Buddha...