Word: bavarians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Munich is Naziism's birthplace and an old city of art treasures and Nazi Party shrines. But in its suburbs are Messerschmitt plane factories, the Bayerische Motorenwerke (aircraft engines and motor vehicles), many other war factories. In their fifth raid on the Bavarian capital, the R.A.F. shattered its museums and arms industries alike...
...mournful, melodious song, The Ballad of the German Soldier's Bride, has been haunting BBC's short-wave listeners in Germany. The words are by Bavarian Bert Brecht, the music by Polish Mischa Spoliansky. It is sung by two voices. English translation...
...Bavarian General Staff sent a young officer, Major Karl Haushofer, to study the workings of the Japanese Army. Traveling slowly via Suez and Singapore, young Haushofer hailed the flag of the Rising Sun with "immense relief." His long journey from the Fatherland had been humiliating: at many stages of the ship's passage-Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, Aden, India, Singapore-he had seen a rocky bastion rise from the water flying the British Union Jack. A trained geographer, young Haushofer well knew of Britain's imperial lifeline. But on his trip this line took on a new and shocking...
...months ago, with cold disapproval, Gustav Siegfried Eins reported that Hitler had fired the Bavarian chief of the Wehrmacht's General Staff, Colonel General Franz Haider, who largely planned the invasions of Poland, France, the Balkans and Russia. Stockholm correspondents reported that Hitler had, summoned Haider before the assembled staff and barked: "I am under the impression that your achievements do not keep up with my demands and you are unable to follow my intentions. I thank you for your work hitherto...
Destiny's agent was a Bavarian officer named Franz Hipper: an opportunistic Raeder recognized the agent. For his superior's approval he worked with selfless care, charted courses down to a minnow's fin, was everything that a junior officer should be-except in his pint size. Franz Hipper often boomed to his bantam favorite: "When I become an admiral, I'll make you my chief of staff...