Word: hitlerized
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Next day, with lean, fanatical Minister of Interior Wilhelm Frick at the throttle, the Hitler juggernaut moved to squash flat what remained of the German Socialist Party, most of whose leaders had already fled the Reich. Long before Chancellor Hitler came to power, Nazi Frick as Minister of Culture and Interior in Thuringia made every schoolchild in that State kneel down every day and pray "Oh God. I believe Thou punishest the traitor and blessest the Liberator of our Homeland. Free us from deceit and treason!" Last week Dr. Frick denounced the entire Socialist Party as "treasonable . . . subversive and inimical...
...suggestions that the Government's acts exceeded last week even the broad powers conferred on Chancellor Hitler by President von Hindenburg's Decree for the Protection of the People and the State, Dr. Goebbels snorted: "A government conscious of its own responsibility must also know how to break the fetters...
Further blows by which Chancellor Hitler sought to smash all opposition...
...Suppression by decree of the immunity from arrest of Reichstag Deputies contained in Article 37 of the German Constitution, after which Nazi police jailed last week such prominent Socialist Deputies as Jewish Dr. Paul Löbe, for twelve years Speaker of the Reichstag who once called Herr Hitler "that Slovene with bloody fingers...
...Subjugation of the Protestant churches in Prussia (stronghold of German Protestantism) to the regulation of the State by the appointment last week of Nazi Herr August Jaeger as Commissioner for the Evangelical Church. This Hitler challenge to Protestantism brought the immediate resignation as Reichsbishof of the Evangelical Church of beloved Dr. Friedrich von Bodelschwingh "Bishop of the Poor" who was elected Reichsbishof only last month by a non-Nazi Protestant majority (TIME, June 12). Last week the Nazi Protestants, organized as the German Christian Church, manifestoed: "Protestants! Our true leader, Adolf Hitler, has expelled your seducers! He, a most devout...