, 1935-07-25
Steel HELMET
UNITS Ban
OVER GERMANY
American Legion Of
Germany Is Victim
OF Latest Drive BY
Hitler

SCHWERIN, Meckelburg. Ger
many, July 25.-(R-The political
7olice dissolved the steel helmet
units IN western M~ecklenburg at
Parchim, LudwigSlust and Warren
Thursday on the grounds OF sub
yersive activity.
An official cOmmunique said:
In accordance with article ! OF
the February %. 1888, edict, the
sDeel helmet districts Of Parchim
and Luuwigslust and the local group
taI Warren are Immediately dis
Owed.
In that connection. wearing OF
steel helmet uniforms and badges
likewise are forbidden in the dis
trictS named and within the con-
fines OF the Warren local group.
attractions Of the order will be
punished as a penal offenSe IN ac-
cOrdance with article 4 OF the Feb
ruary %, 1888. edict.
Existing property will be pro-
vIslonally seized and SequeStered."
The reasons: repeatedly. within
tine districts OF Pachlm and Lud-
WigSiuSt, resistance mas been offer
ed BY members OF the steel helmet
70 orders issued By state Officials
anu officers OF the party.
The leadership OF the steel he'll
nets for the parchim district has
been able in recent times TO prevail
on steel helmet members not to
participate in courses OF air pro-
! iucted ordered by the Lanurat
y administrative leader) OF the dis
tricL.
Moreover. these circles have
been continuously spreading menoa-
ciOus rumorS. bordering on high
treason concerning the state party
which were calculated to undermine
the confidence OF the populace in
the national SocialiStic leadership
OF the state.
The provocative attitude Of the
members OF the steel helmets wen
LED, in fact, in Stolpe. TO an SA man
Cstorm trooper being knocked down
by steel helmeterS at a Warren
protest meeting held because Jews
belonged TO the steel helmets.
The events OF the last weeks
snow that the steel helmets Of these
districts knowingly, according 70
play, were working against the
Its dissolution necessary ON
these grounds. the edict was in
voked."
Forty-five groups OF the Baden
stahlhelm (steel helmet) veterans
organization were dissolved by the
ministry OF the interior at karlsruhe
July ~ also on charges Of sub
Nersige tendencies.
That dissolution order said the
local ranks OF the steel helmets
verf Swelled by former opponents
under whose influence the steel
helmet organization turned into
political opposition TO the Nazi
movement. thus seriously endanger-
ing the political unity OF the Ger
mar people"
Nazi publications have Jumped
members OF the Stahlhelm with
Jews, Catholic and Protestant men
of the cloth, communists and other
"reactionary" or ~'subversive" ele-
mentS in their drive TO make Nail
ism the faith ard religion Of a
unified Germany.
Franz Seldte, leader Of the stahl-
helm and minister OF labor. had a
conference with Re~ichsfuehrer Adolf
Hitler only recently at BerchteS-
gaden. after which Seldte was rep
resented as being convinced that
Hitler would not tolerate further
dissolution OF local steel helmet
groups.
Unification OF veterans organ
izations. including the Stahlhelm.
however. have been deemed likely
70 be decided upon at the Nazi
party's September convention.
Only Tuesday. General Hermann
wilhelm GOering. air minister,
a remier Of Prussia and chief OF the
y,rseret police. dissolved the Cath
Ole war veterans organization In
Prussia.
Officials OF the steel helmets
Cermany'S equivalent 70 the Amer
lean Legion-expreSsed fear at that
time that their order would suffer
a fate similar to that OF the Cath
Ole veterans.
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