Federal Republic of Germany Press office [FRG] (publ.);
A mandate for democracy: Three decades of the FR Germany
Press and Information Office of the Fed Government
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1850 Bundestag, Prussian king rammed through a constitution acc to which a person had three votes or only one dep on his finances, social rank, and property. Only the "top ten thousand" retained their privileges. p. 23 Suicides in 1931, per million: p.48 Germany: 260 England: 85 USA: 133 France: 155 Sleeping room - image, p. 49 Berlin 1932: private "sleeping room": unemployed people sleeping on a rope. In the morning, rope was lowered and the sleepers sent out into the street. 1932 Nov: Communists and National Socialists, both fiercely opposed to the Weimar, united in a strike against the Berlin transportation system -> 3 deaths, many injured. Some Stalinists equated the Social Democrats with Hitler's Nazis. see posters - Soc Democrats opposed Nazis - worker in chais poster 54 Hitler, Mein Kampf: Our participation in a parliamentary body could only be for the purpose of destroying it. 55 [The Mein Kampf was written while he was in prison in 1923, after the Munich beer hall [Burgerbrau Keller] putsch