Word: baltics
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Alfred Rosenberg. Born 47 years ago in Rakvere, Estonia, he was the son of an Estonian mother and a German father who sold leather to shoemakers. Young Alfred went to high schools in Tallinn and Riga, developed a high admiration for -and a profound social inferiority complex about-noble Baltic families descended from medieval Teutonic Knights. Even at this early period it entered Alfred's head that if one cannot be born into an aristocracy, one may at least try to create an aristocracy...
When World War I began, Alfred was studying architecture in Moscow. He disapproved of the Russian nobility, who, unlike the Baltic nobles, were occasionally cordial to Jews and other social inferiors. He despised the Communists. After they took power, he had returned to Tallinn to teach drawing and preach antiSemitism. In 1919, when the Communists approached Estonia, Alfred took his leave...
WASHINGTON-The United States today intensified efforts to induce Finland to end her war against Russia with a twin-barrelled blast accusing the small Baltic nation of jeopardizing American war aid by serving as a tool for the German military machine...
...Hitler has issued personal orders to Gauleiter Arthur Karl Greiser of Poland and the Baltic States, according to the Catholic C.I.P. agency, that: 1) the Church must cease to exist except as social or cultural associations; 2) no person under 21 may belong to such an association; Germans and officials are forbidden to join them; 3) these associations may not have central headquarters or keep in touch with any group abroad (i.e., the Vatican) ; 4) all religious education and all convents and monasteries are to be suppressed; 5) every priest must have a secular job, so that he can perform...
...Nazi artillery and dive-bombers. The sea approaches to Leningrad were threatened as German naval and Luftwaffe parties battered their way onto the stubbornly defended Estonian Islands, Oesel, Vormsi and Moon. The Finns put new pressure on the sea fort of Hanko. German warships were reported steaming into the Baltic to smoke the Red Fleet and its stinging artillery out of the Gulf of Finland...