“What happened in Germany Saturday is no news to me. I have been expecting such an outbreak. Judging by the facts at my disposal at present, it appears as though Hitler had engineered the whole thing as a means of getting rid of the left wing leaders in his party. Conveniently, he himself was away from Berlin, so that no direct connection could be pinned on him,” declared Franz Hoellering, formerly chief editor of the German daily Berliner Zeitung Mittag, who arrived on the French
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