Dr. Frederick Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron, German Ambassador to the United States since 1927, has resigned from his post as a protest against Nazi rule. Dr. von Prittwitz, known as a supporter of Republicanism in Germany, has found himself out of sympathy with the doctrines and methods ### the Nazi Government, and feels that ### can no longer represent it here. ### is understood than von Prittwitz ###d asked to be relieved of his post immediately after the Reichstag elections made it clear that control of the Reich had passed to Hitler.
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