- Headline
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3 Americans Molested By Nazi Police
- Sub-Headline
- Complaints Filed With U.S. Embassy at Berlin as Hitler Takes Helm
- Publication Date
- Wednesday, March 8, 1933
- Historical Event
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American Citizens Attacked
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- Page Section and Number
- 1
- Author/Byline
- AP
- Article Text
- Berlin, March 7 (AP)—The post-war Republican colors of Germany ceased to exist today and the constitutional provision concerning them became a dead letter.
The hoisting of the former imperial flag over the Berlin city hall for the first time since 1918 symbolized what has happened throughout the Reich. Many public buildings controlled by Chancellor Adolf Hitler's National Socialists, such as the official residence of Minister-Without-Portfolio Hermann Goering, displayed the Nazi Swastika emblem. In many localities both the imperial flag and the Swastika were shown, while colors of the republic were taboo.
Three Americans complained at the American embassy that they had been
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Bibliography
Dodd, William E., Jr. and Martha Dodd. Ambassador Dodd's diary, 1933-1938. New York: Harcourt, Brace, c1941.
Larsen, Erik. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin. New York: Crown, c2011.
Metcalfe, Philip. 1933. New York: Perennial Library, 1989.
Nagorski, Andrew. Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazis Rise to Power. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012.
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