Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the main outlines of the Führer's and professor's plans had been divulged. One of Europe's newest capitals, Berlin's history even as an insignificant village dates back only 700 years as compared to London's 2,000, Paris' 2,050 years. Development of Berlin began seriously only with the Great Elector of Brandenburg, who before his death in 1688 had raised the city's population from 8,000 to 20,000 mainly by offering asylum to political and religious refugees. In the early 18th Century, Soldier...
With her short history, her few landmarks, Berlin gave Herr Hitler ample room and freedom to develop his project. As a working model, he followed in broad, but greatly augmented outline, plans drawn up for and approved by Kaiser Wilhelm II shortly before the World...
Main characteristics of the plan are the creation of two wide axes cutting Berlin into four parts, a series of four concentric rings of boulevards around the axes' intersection. The 30-mile East-West axis will run from the Lustgarten, connecting Unter den Linden, Charlottenburger Chaussée, the Heerstrasse. Crossing the East-West axis in the Tiergarten will be the North-South axis, which will run for 24 miles from suburban Wedding, past the old Lehrter station and the Reichstag, to the west of the famed Brandenburg Tor, over the Potsdam Bridge, out toward Schöneberg...
...many small towns no separate schools are provided for Jewish children, who are forced to sit on back benches, to be beaten up by little "Aryans," to be addressed as "Du Jude" by the teachers. Since the beginning of the Hitler regime, thousands of Jews have moved to Berlin, hoping to escape notice there, believing that the presence of diplomats and foreign correspondents in the capital would prevent too drastic persecution by the Nazi Government. For the last two years anti-Jewish activity has, in fact, taken place largely outside of Berlin. Last week, however, this condition changed suddenly...
...clever, waspish, Jew-baiting Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, who is also Nazi district leader for Greater Berlin, was attributed the latest outburst. Cafés, cinema houses were searched for Jews. Down the Grenadierstrasse and Dragonerstrasse-both prominent Jewish streets-ran several hundred "Aryans" bent on pulling Jews out of their stores, painting their shopwindows with insulting signs. Schoolteachers lectured children not to associate with little Jews. On countless shopwindows appeared such inscriptions as "Jewish swine," "Out with the Jews," "Avoid this Jew," "The Jew- Our Sorrow!" "Jew, get out!" Whole streets were roped off while Jewish blocks were...