Word: autobahnen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Winston Churchill, pro-German Lord & Lady Londonderry and all the Cabinet's biggest wigs & wives. The news tickers at No. 10 were chattering about how all Munich's motor vehicles, including beer trucks, had been commandeered and were roaring out along Adolf Hitler's concrete military Autobahnen toward Austria...
Several foreign highway commissions have recently-reported with admiration on the 1.250 miles of Nazi-built superspeed highways (Autobahnen). On them British Minister of Transport Leslie Burgin was recently driven for some hours at an average speed of 89 m.p.h. "We have the best motor roads in the world!" cried the Führer, opening the 1938 show. "Soon we will build the cheapest car in the world!"This car, the famed Volkswagen or "people's car," often referred to in Nazi electioneering speeches, has been under development by German engineers since 1933, and the Führer...