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Word: arbeitsdienst (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Main Tent. Each day of the political circus featured a different attraction in the centre ring. Most impressive: The march-past on the mammoth Zeppelin Meadow of the Arbeitsdienst-Nazi compulsory labor battalions. Forty thousand lads in rough khaki, 3,000 stripped to the waist, goose stepped past the Realmleader, mirrored thousands of times on the silver-blue spades they carried on their shoulders. Most beautiful: 22,000 alternate Nazi ranks, carrying flaming torches, wending their slow tramp along the search-lit walls of the turreted medieval city. Most spectacular: 140,000 brown-uniformed Storm Troopers lined up column upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: A Million Heils | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

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