Word: thuringia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilhelm Frick, oldest (62) high-ranking Nazi. Sickly Wilhelm Frick did not serve in the last War. As chief of the Munich Political Police he took a hand in the 1923 Putsch, earned a 16-month prison sentence for his trouble. In 1930, as Minister of the Interior of Thuringia, he appointed Hitler a police officer, thereby made him a German citizen...
...itself from its founders. Now it had 108,000 dues-paying members. Now it had twelve members in the Reichstag (out of a total of 490). It had 13 deputies in the Berlin City Council. It won more than eleven percent of the total vote in an election in Thuringia. It had become important enough to be courted by Hugenberg, leader of the powerful Nationalists...
...until 1929 did National Socialism win its first absolute majority in a city election (at Coburg) and make its first significant showing in a provincial election (in Thuringia). But from 1928 on the party almost continually gained in electoral strength. In the Reichstag elections of 1928 it polled 809,000 votes. Two years later 6,401,016 Germans voted for National Socialist deputies, while in 1932 the vote was 13,732,779. While still short of a majority, the vote was nevertheless impressive proof of the power of the man and his movement...
...Austria by obtaining first the Ministry of Interior which in Europe generally carries with it control of the police, who in turn can then make life easy for Nazi agitators and hard for their opponents. In 1930 this maneuver was used to give Nazis control of the state of Thuringia in Germany. After Hitler became German Chancellor in 1933 it was Minister of Interior Hermann Wilhelm Goring who, by control of the police, riveted Nazi control around the necks of 66,000,000 Germans, many of whom had voted Hitler in and thought they could control him by votes...
Official figures, published in Germany, reveal that more than 1,000 lay brothers and "numerous" priests were fortnight ago on trial or awaiting trial for immorality. Fifty-three had already been convicted. Suddenly Nazi State police swooped down on a Catholic boys' seminary at Heiligenstadt in Thuringia, closed it because of "wretched moral conditions prevailing among the youthful inmates...