Word: bavarians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bring order out of Germany's political and economic chaos? Last week Adolf Hitler, seven days after he had sent some of his closest political henchmen to Death and two days after he had made an Economic Tsar, suddenly left Berlin by plane for the Bavarian Alps "to draw from Nature further inspiration." In Berlin his party henchmen declared blankly, "July will be a month of truce. Also no more Cabinet meetings are scheduled for July." An inspiration. widely published by the official Press, exhorted all unmarried men and women under 25 now working in Berlin to "Give...
Jitters- With Chancellor Hitler breathing the fresh, free air of the Bavarian Alps, a bad case of jitters sent Vice Leader Rudolf Hess of the Nazi Party, who is often called "Hitler's Other Self," dashing up to Königsberg, the picturesque capital of Old Paul's East Prussia. Shouting like one possessed over a nation-wide radio hookup, Orator Hess roared that the Storm Troops are not military, but that Leader Hitler has a right to condemn even guiltless Storm Troopers to death because "in a military mutiny every tenth man is punished, irrespective of whether...
...Bavarian costumes and mottoes such an "A Code in Our Heads," and the "Blue Eagle is a Yale Bird" aided in lending color to the Class. Day festivities in the Stadium yesterday afternoon. Topping the proceedings was the confetti and streamer battle in which the graduating class, their friends sand families, and the remaining classes all joined...
Though he led a more public life after the War, as befitted Germany's foremost novelist, did his bit for reconstruction by lecturing in Paris, served as president of the Bavarian section of the German Authors Society and signed a cable pleading for executive clemency in the Scottsboro case, he joined no party, stayed away from social and political functions. When the Nazi broom began to sweep Germany clean of non-"Aryans," "Aryan" Thomas Mann picked up his household goods and left. Resigned to permanent exile, he says: "As a German. I can understand what has happened...
...three reasons: 1) Nationalist and pro-French agitation before the War kept Germany from developing Rhine traffic at Strasbourg; under the French booming Strasbourg now ships over 5,000,000 tons of freight a year. 2) Under Germany Strasbourg breweries and Alsatian wines were practically unknown because of Bavarian and Rheingau competition: contrariwise. Strasbourg beer is now the best in France and her ten breweries pay dividends of 20% to 30%. 3) Adolf Hitler. Strasbourg's prosperity does not entirely cover the province. Wool-weaving, cotton-spinning Mulhouse is as badly off as any of the cities...