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HITLER’S OAK TREE
Planted by the German Chancellor — Herr Hitler — on the Tempelhof Field, Berlin, on May 1, the oak tree was cut down, and on suspicion that the perpetrator was a Communist, it was ordered that 18,000 Communist prisoners in Prussia should go dinnerless for three days.
The West Australian, 1933
The front doors of the vehicle were pulled open and Rowland and Clyde dragged out.
Rowland was slammed against the brick wall of the alley and held there. For a moment he was dazed, vaguely aware of the crushing weight of the forearm against his throat.
Beimler intervened. “Eisen, stop! Are you mad? These men helped me.”
“They could be spies, allowing you to lead them to the Underground… to us,” he hissed, though he loosened the stranglehold.
Rowland focussed. The man call
