{"id":1013,"date":"2004-05-31T14:11:27","date_gmt":"2004-05-31T18:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2015-05-13T20:29:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T00:29:40","slug":"klemperer-aug-1934-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1013","title":{"rendered":"Klemperer \u2013 Aug. 1934"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hindenburg dies at nine o&#8217;clock on the 2nd of August, one hour later a &#8216;law&#8217; of the Reich Government of August 1 appears: The offices of the President and the Chancellor are united in Hitler&#8217;s person, the army (Wehrmacht) will give its oath to him, and at half past six the troops in Dresden swore their oath and everything is completely calm. Our butcher says indifferently: &#8216;Why vote first? It just costs a lot of money.&#8217; The people hardly notice this complete coup d&#8217;etat, it all takes place in silence, drowned out by hymns to the dead Hindenburg. I would swear that millions upon millions have no idea what a monstrous thing has occurred.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8212; Aug. 4, 1934<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0375753788&#038;asins=0375753788&#038;linkId=GTY57OUHK747NGY4&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hindenburg dies at nine o&#8217;clock on the 2nd of August, one hour later a &#8216;law&#8217; of the Reich Government of August 1 appears: The offices of the President and the Chancellor are united in Hitler&#8217;s person, the army (Wehrmacht) will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1013\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1492,1848,1549],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101477,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions\/101477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}