Word: thuringia
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...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...
...other newsworthy members of the Boettcher clan and to Denver and Colorado the name also means sugar. Charles Boettcher, octogenarian grandfather of Charles 2nd and head of the family, is a founder of Great Western Sugar, biggest beet sugar company in the U. S. Born in 1852 in Thuringia, heart of the German beet sugar country, he peddled hardware in the boom mining towns of Colorado. When he visited Germany again in 1898 he brought back a bag of beet seed, helped set up Colorado's first beet mill at Grand Junction. Great Western today operates 22 factories...
Lean, fanatical Dr. Wilhelm Frick, a veteran of the Munich beer hall Putsch of 1923, has long been a Nazi front ranker. Born in the Palatinate, he was Minister of Interior of Thuringia when most Nazis were discredited. He ran the State on such enthusiastically Nazi lines that the Republican Government of Chancellor Muller stopped a $60,000 a month subsidy to the Thuringian State police in an effort to get rid of the Palatinate, Thuringia, Bavaria and the rest of them...
...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 to the State...