TODAY IN BERLIN: MAYORS' "HOLIDAYS"

March 13, 1933 in Berlin

On this day in 1933 the afternoon edition of the “Vossiche Zeitung” - one of Berlin’s oldest and then still leading newspapers - published a small and seemingly rather inconsequential little note. It informed the readers that several of Berlin’s borough mayors as well as city councillors had just “gone on a 14-day-long leave from work”. Some of them would not be returning to their posts. The text names: