Word: aschersleben
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...Berlin, one clear, cold morning last week, 43 newsmen, including four U. S. correspondents, reported by invitation at the Wilhelmplatz building of the Propaganda Ministry. They bundled into two enormous grey busses, set out on a five-hour trip to Aschersleben, home of Willkie's ancestors, in the Harz mountains 150 miles southwest of Berlin...
...Aschersleben's citizens it was a great occasion. Goblin-eared, stiff-collared Oberbürgermeister Dr. Bailer seized the opportunity to make a speech boosting Aschersleben during lunch: "Gentlemen of the world's press, hearty welcome. . . . Great honor. . . . Our wonderful city . . . population 34,000, doubled since 1938. . . ." Then they were herded down the street, to Holzmarktstrasse No. I, where Wendell Willkie's grandfather was born...
...newsmen gaped, moved on to the City Hall. There, in a reception room decorated with jonquils and tulips, on a long oak table were spread calf-bound records, property deeds, Great-Grandfather Willkie's will. Their significance, according to Nazi spokesmen: they prove that Willkie is "a liar." Aschersleben's city archivist, Prussian-headed little Rector Goapka, launched into the story of his Willkie research. He made a big point of the four spellings of the name he found in church and city records: Willke, Willcke, Willeke, Willecke. "But," said he, "the name was never Willicke, as Herr...
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