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...engineering genius, but not endowed with much money sense. He was a man of the world who spoke fluently not only German but French and English. His father, sprig of a Bavarian Protestant family which had produced craftsmen and tradesmen for generations, was a restless bookbinder who went from Augsburg to Paris. Rudolf, born in Paris in 1858, learned to use his hands in his father's atelier, delivered finished goods in a pushcart. Stirred by the ferment of new inventions-the storage battery, the gas engine, electric lights, dry-plate photography-the boy spent hours browsing...
When the War of 1870 broke, all Germans were ordered out of Paris. The elder Diesel sought refuge in England, and sent the boy to an uncle in Augsburg. In trade school there, Rudolf set out grimly to be an engineer. When he was 20, studying at the Technische Hochschule of Munich, one of the lecturers, famed Professor Carl von Linde, mechanical-refrigeration pioneer, singled out young Diesel, sent him, after graduation, to work at the Linde factory in Paris. In a few months Diesel was acting as engineer, manager, inventor, patent expert, purchasing agent. He began to take...
could not hope to paralyze German transport except at the Ruhr bottleneck, but the broad new Autobahnen (speed highways) helped guide night pilots to Augsburg (northwest of Munich), which in the 15th and 16th Centuries was one of Europe's great trade centres and now has, besides the ancient palaces of its merchant princes, the Messerschmitt aircraft plant...
...from below Sedan and headed for the English Channel, the British Isles waited for the blow that was inevitable. Their only countermeasure last week begun in advance was to try to devastate the Ruhr munitions works, to bomb at long range German aircraft production centres at Dessau, Rostock, Oranienburg, Augsburg, Rangsdorf, Johan-nisthal, Gotha, Schonefeld, Halle, Leipzig. Factories in those places were believed to be supplying Germany with 50 warplanes and 90 motors a day. Hopefully the British declared that their own defenses could inflict 40% losses (coming & going) on Nazi bombers who attack them at home. Nonetheless, the British...
When they asked him when Blitzkrieg would start, the man in Augsburg fell silent, abruptly said, "Gute Nacht (good night)," then added: "Heil Hitler!" Retorted Correspondent Cox: "Heil England! Heil Churchill...