GERMANY’S WAR DEAD
DAY OF COMMEMORATION SCENE AT OPERA HOUSE BERLIN, February 22. An immense Iron Cross, inscribed “1914,” formed the background for a strange ceremony attended by Herr Hitler and other Nazi notables yesterday. The day had been proclaimed a Day of National Solemnity in honour of Germany’s war dead. Herr Hitler and his generals gathered in the Prussian State Opera House and heard the Defence Minister, Marshal von Blomberg, glorify the old army and “the sacred days of August,l9l4."
The scene was a typical example of Prussian military splendour. Soldiers in steel helmets held aloft 36 Imperial battle flags on a brilliantly floodlit stage. Marshal von Blomberg spoke appreciatively of the new massive armaments that had been accumulated, but he insisted that a new war would not be started by Germany. The Minister said Germany had strengthened the world’s conception of morality by tearing up “the iniquitous Treaty of Versailles." “Other nations slm ild not take it lightly that we stretch out our hands in reconciliation,’ he added.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20671, 9 March 1937, Page 11
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