Word: prussia
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Chancellor, Defense Minister and Federal Commissioner for Prussia†-General von Schleicher...
Minister of Interior and Acting Federal Commissioner for Prussia†-Dr. Franz Bracht...
...German industry by what amounts to Treasury grants (issued in the form of negotiable tax rebates) to German employers in proportion as they add to their factory staffs; 3) to block all Socialist (and of course Communist) measures, especially those proposing to break up the huge estates in East Prussia of German Junkers who are the neighbors and stanch friends of Prussian-born President von Hindenburg...
...purpose to rule, the President served drastic notice last week. He issued two more decrees, the first re-enforcing federal control of the Free State of Prussia (TIME, Sept. 12), the second extending to January 1933 the "civic truce" (ban on political meetings not approved by the government) which was to have expired last week...
Just whom the police were to shoot & kill was not stated by blunt, beefy Dr. Franz Bracht, the grim Federal Commissioner for the State of Prussia who gave the orders. Just about the time Dr. Bracht boomed "Shoot to kill!" the Berlin Traffic Co. notified 1,000 of its 22,000 striking employes that they are definitely fired and will never get their jobs back. The 1,000 firings made it needless to fire shots. Cowed strikers came back to work. Since Berlin was carried by Communists in the national elections (TIME, Nov. 14) Dr. Bracht, onetime Mayor of Essen...