Evening star., 1933-06-21
HUGENBERG UNITS
RA|DED BY HITLER
Economis Ministers Fighting
Groups Ordered Dissolved.
One Man Killed.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, June 2l.-Chancellor Adolf
Hitler's Nazi administration moved
against Dr. Alfred Hugenberg's Ma
tionalist party today with a series Of
raids on various party headquarters, in
which one man was killed, and with
orders dissolving the Nationalist Aux
iliary organizations.
The fatality occurred at Frankfort
ontheOder. where a man was shot
during a raid on the party headquarters.
DR.. Nuremberg, who recently returned
from LONDON after he had been virtually
repudiated by other German delegates
to the World Economic Conference, was
remaining incommunicado Some quar-
ters asserted today's events would re-
suit in his resignatio from the cabinet.
in which he Is minister of economics
and cgriculture,
lore Hitler gained power in Ger
n" = the Nationalists we're his allies.
He no longer needs them now as he has
a majority in the Reichstag without
them and he has effectively nullified
the power OF the Legislature anyway
Fund for Youths Suppressed.
The governments dissolution order
was directed against the Nationalist
fighting units, which are comparable
TO the Nazi storm troopers, In addi-
ton the Bismarck fund for youths of
the Nationalist party was suppressed.
The fighting units were reported dis
solved in Saxony, the Free State Of
Oldenburg. Wurttemberg, East Prussia
and Prussia, including Berlin
hill afE al
that the action was not aimed at the
Steel Helmet War Veterans Associa-
ton, nevertheless special Nazi commits
sioners were appointed at Aacheu and
Cologne to reorganiZe the Steel Helmet
group.
Many arrests were made in connec-
ton with the raids on the Nationalist
fighting units.
Police issued a communiQue saying
that evidence had been produced from
various parts of the Reich to the effect
that Communists had joined DR.. Hugen-
berg's "KampfStaffels'
This necessitated a general raid. 1t
added, with the dissolution orders re-
sulting
Communists. according to police. by
Joining DR.. Hugenberg's organization
obtained the right to wear party uni
AoA ohN Soiis WCdPoiiS. ItCilCc- du-
thorities maintained, they could spread
subversive propaganda under the guise
OF membership in patriotic society.
The secret police of Capt Hermann
Wilhelm Goering. Prussian premier and
NaZ minister without portfolio, found
members of the organization wearing
uniforms with green shirts.
They were stripped of these, while
large crowds of spectators cheered and
shouted Hell Hitler"
News Spreads Quickly.
News of the dissolution of the Ma
tional Front fighting units, of the sup
preston Of the Bismarck Bund, an or
sanization for German Nationalist
youths. and of a raid on Nationalist
party headquarters, spread quickly
through the capital.
In all political quaMers the question
was: What will Hugenberg do?
An inquiry by telephone at the party
ofices ELECTED this reply:
1T is impossible to say anything. The
police hold the building and police ofii-
GERS are sitting at my side as I am
talning. Goodby."
DR.. Hugenberg himself was keeping
incommunicado but one of his closest
advisers volunteered this statement:
EVeFyInlng u CONFUSION at tne mo-
ment and it is impossible to say what
the outcome will be. We must await
the governments detailed statement,
after which everything depends on
talk between DR.. Hugenberg and Chan
cellor Hitler"
A Nazi spokesman asserted that I'VE
do not say that there is anything for
Hugenberg to do except to resign from
the cabinet or divorce himself from his
party"