Word: asch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press photographer and first appeared in the National Socialist newspaper, Völkischer Beobachter, in the fall of 1938, shortly after the Sudeten "Anschluss." The Nazi explanation was that here were portrayed the intense emotions of joy which swept the Sudeten Germans as Hitler crossed the Czech border at Asch and drove through the streets of the nearby ancient city of Eger, 99% of whose inhabitants were ardently pro-Nazi Sudeten Germans at the time...
Borodin: Prince Igor (artists and orchestra of the Bolshoi State Theater, U.S.S.R.; Asch, 10 sides). A top-drawer company, featuring communal teamwork instead of star soloists, distinguishes this streamlined Moscow recording of a pre-Soviet opera. Well recorded on unbreakable vynalite. Performance: good...
...first Victor album (Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks) sells before coming out with its own unbreakable product for home use. Already on the market was the more expensive ($2.50 a record) vinyl album, Prince Igor, put out by the six-year-old Asch Recording Studios. And manufacturers who never gave records a thought before were ready to move into Victor's bailiwick...
Strictly G.I. (Asch, 8 sides). World War II barracks ballads cleaned up for the old folks at home, sung by soldiers. Performance: good. Recording: fair...
...past three weeks I have traveled over considerable portions of Germany, Czechoslovakia and Austria watching our troops and the people they are governing. In Asch, Czechoslovakia, I saw truckloads of displaced Russian civilians starting out for repatriation, guided by G.I.s of the ist Division who vied for the job because they had so much fun behind the Russian lines with the hard-drinking Red Army soldiers...