Word: hitleritis
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Living Shields, Boiling Oil. Before German Democracy could thus be downed this week, the Hitler Cabinet had to launch last week a juggernaut of super-suppressive measures & decrees for which they needed an excuse. What excuse could be better than the colossal act of arson which had just sent a $1,500,000 fire roaring through the Reichstag Building (TIME, March 6) gutting completely the brown oak Reichstag Chamber and ruining its great dome of gilded copper and glass...
...Treaty of Versailles by raising the number of Germans under arms. Pistols and in many cases rifles were issued to some 60,000 so-called "auxiliary Prussian police" made up as follows: 50% ordinary troopers from the Nazi Sturmabteilung; 30% picked Nazi shock troops from the Schutzstaffel, Hitler's Praetorian Guard; 20% members of the Stahlhelm ("Steel Helmets"), War veterans' association whose leader is Minister of Labor Herr Franz Seldte, rich bottler of soda water. With astounding boldness the State ordered that men drafted as "auxiliaries" while holding jobs shall continue to be paid their full wages, irrespective...
Constitution Crimped. With the Reichstag fire as his excuse, weary old President Paul von Hindenburg signed a decree giving Chancellor Hitler & Cabinet a tyrant's powers. Totally suspended by this decree are the following seven articles of the German Constitution (some of them already modified by previous laws & decrees...
...Potsdam! Just what kind of a man he is Chancellor Adolf Hitler amply revealed in his final Berlin campaign speech, cheered almost continuously by 20,000 frenzied Nazis packed into the vast Sportpalast. Lumping Communism. Democracy and Socialism under one head, Orator Hitler did his best to cut it off. ''Marxism proceeds on the assumption of all being equal!" he roared. "As a corollary to this principle Democracy also postulates that not only must nations be appraised as equal in quality but that individuals also must not be differentiated. This obviously leads to the throttling of individual capacity...
Amid transports of joy Chancellor Hitler announced that henceforth the Reichstag will no longer meet in liberal, proletarian Berlin but in imperial, aristocratic Potsdam. On April 1 the new Reichstag will convene for business in the Garrison Church at Potsdam, a national military shrine in which Frederick the Great lies buried...