VISIT OF VON PAPEN AS CHANCELLOR IN MUNICH, 11 October 1932. Commentary of "Frankfurter Zeitung", partly based on Bavarian sources such as the news service of the Bavarian People's Party, 12 October 1932, Page 1.
Von Papen claimed that it had been his aim from the very beginning to build a new Reich for and with the various states LLaenderJ. The Reich government is taking a definite federalist attitude. Its slogan is not a dreary centralism or unitarianism.
% jJ< * iff if: ifc iff
Wherever one did hear von Papen express himself in public, one did hear a chancellor who took special care to be regarded as an unconditional federalist.
Comments on von Papen's commitment to federalism rather than centralization in Germany
Authors
Date: 12 October 1932
Literal Title: Extracts from Frankfurter Zeitung 12 October 1932 . . . Visit of von Papen as Chancellor in Munich, 11 October 1932.
Defendant: Franz Papen, von
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-3318
Citation: IMT (page 3259)
HLSL Item No.: 453487
Notes:The prosecution contrasted von Papen's statements in 1932 with his later work in the Nazi regime. See also PS 3313, 3314, and 3317.
Document Summary
PS-3318: Photostat of Reichsausgabe of Frankfurter Zeitung of 12 October 1932 containing statement by von Papen that his Government had the point of view that the Reich was a federation