GERMAN NAZIS

Evening Star, Issue 21505, 1 September 1933, Page 7

GERMAN NAZIS

the nuremburg congress SPEECH BY HERR HITLER Pres* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NUREMBURG, August 31. All the bells in the city pealed as Herr Hitler arrived in a motor car for tho Nazi congress. In a brief speech in response to the burgomaster’s welcome he said l he had decided that all future party' congresses should bp held in Nuremburg as a symbol that the movement was not only a continuation of German greatness but also of German hrt and civilisation.

OUTRAGE AT MARIENBAO PROFESSOR KILLED. PRAGUE, August 31. Two shots fired through a window by an unknown person killed Theodore Lessing, a former professor of philosophy at Hanover University, at bis home at Marienbad, where ho had lived eince April. Lessing was a strong opponent of the Nazis, and was aged Bixty-one.

BRITISH LABOURITES FEBTUSSED (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 31. [(Received September 1, at noon.) Sir John Simon to-day received a deputation from tho Independent Labour Party, headed by Mr James Maxton, M.P. According to Mr Maxton, .the deputation desired to express to the Foreign Secretary the intense feeling among the working class in regard to the treatment of certain people under the present regime in Germany.

Mr Maxton said that tho Foreign Secretary assured the deputation that the British Government was watching happenings in Germany with the closest attention.

HITLER’S RETREAT

LIFE IN THE MOUNTAINS. LONDON, August 20. “Here in the mountains one can think more clearly than in the busy world below,” Herr Hitler told Nazi leaders, who wore summoned to his home at Obersalzburg. The public knows nothing or the Chancellor’s life in the mountain retreat. Everyone was surprised to read that his sister and niece escaped the motor accident in which Herr Hitler’s adjutant was badly injured, as few knew that the Chancellor had a sister. Yet this gentle, retiring woman or Iforty, unmarried', presides at Hitler’s chalet, and sees that ho is spared domestic worry. Hitler’s pets are two beautiful Alsatian dogs. His favourite hobby is motoring.

BOASTFUL NAZIS DIVINE HELP, CLAIMED. BERLIN, August 20. “ The Nazis fear neither defeat nor the devil, for God is in-league with us/’ declared Dr Fabricius, a high official of the Ministry of the Interior, at the preliminary celebrations at Eisleben of ■the 450th birthday of Martin Luther, who was born there on November 10, 1483.