SWIFT POLICE ACTION
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barracks and military material seized in berlin "ORGANISED PRIVATE ARMY"
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BERLIN, Wednesday. Swift action fpllowed the decrees. The police closed thirty Nazi barracks in Berlin, and seized all military material and are now dealing with 200 barracks throughout Germany. The Government declares that the Nazi detachments constituted a private army organised on military formation to the smallest detail. Though lacking heavy weapons the forces were capable of performing acts of violence and bringing pressure to bear on the populatipn. The police at Hamburg found the Nazi headquarters filled with teer gas and were forced to. break the windows before entering. ' The police blocked all roads leading to Brown House, the Nazi's central headquarters at Munich. Strong detachments raided the building. The decree has not b'een enforced in Brunswick, whose Nazi Government alone opposed the suppressipn. The Nazis complain that the police exceeded their powers whep they searqhed the political offices as well as barracks, and seized election mafprial.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 199, 15 April 1932, Page 5
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