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Show GENERAL IN GERMAN ARMY 0M914 DIES POTSDAM. Germany. My 4 WPl General Wllhelm Greener. 71, the laat quartermaster general of the imperial German army and for four years minister of defense under the postwar republic, died early this morning in the City hospital. In 1831, when the naxis were rising ris-ing in power, Heinrich Bruening, then chancellor, asked Groener to take over the ministry of interior in addition to the defense portfolio, concentrating control of tha army and police in one man. By decree Groener forbade the wearing of uniforms by party formations for-mations and outlawed the brown-shlrted brown-shlrted nasi storm troops. |