Word: anhalter
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...little plain men had not depended on what they did, their actions would have looked a little silly. Joseph Stalin's man, Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, arrived in Berlin in the rain and was greeted by Adolf Hitler's men, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Wilhelm Keitel. At Anhalt station were also the Ambassadors of China, Turkey and Japan, bowing & scraping and watching Premier Molotov's every gesture for a hint of what Boss Stalin's intentions toward their countries might...
...countryside. Truckloads of soldiers, storm troopers, police, and labor service units were mobilized to keep order. Private automobiles were commandeered to carry dead and wounded. It did not take the shattered windows, the bits of blackened debris dropping from the sky, to tell what had happened: the West-phalian Anhalt munitions works were blowing...
Deadlock, for the time being, seemed to be the significance of the election in Prussia. In Hamburg, Anhalt and Württemberg the Brownshirts won similar pluralities, produced similar deadlocks. In Bavaria, second largest German State, the Fascists last week made their poorest showing, were not able to nose out of first place the locally potent Bavarian People's Party...
...Significance. Thoughtful Germans focused their attention not on the presidential poll last week but on the Diet elections April 24 in Prussia. Hamburg, Bavaria, Wurttemberg and Anhalt. In these elections the parties which grouped themselves last week behind the personality of Hindenburg will be fighting their own battles...
...Republican sympathizer in 1920 on the eve of the Kapp putsch (revolution). General Hans von Seeckt, who organized the Reichswehr so efficiently that Allied influence urged his retirement, made his political debut by accepting the new Conservative People's Party nomination for the Reichstag in the constituency of Magdeburg-Anhalt...