Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only one German close to the Realmleader has a really loose tongue. Last week it was wagging wildly in Nurnberg where bald, barrel-chested Julius Streicher styles himself "Leader of the Franks" and pays scant respect to Prussia or Berlin. On his soth birthday lately he received the accolade of a personal visit from Adolf Hitler who declared: "There is one man on whose wholehearted support I can depend in every situation and who has never wavered one second, Julius Streicher...
Everywhere in Berlin citizens, on General Goring's orders, left their doors unlocked. It was fun for Nazi squads to burst in and bawl: "Citizens, your window shows a crack of light! Darkness is the order! See you aren't caught again!" Most fun, however, was attending to the shop of Weber...
Weber's window and his lights, then sloshed buckets of black paint over his dainty dress goods, daubed the whole shop and made matclhwood of the counters. "When you consider," said a spokesman for the Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment next morning, "that in the entire city of Berlin only this Jew, this unspeakable Weber, had to be dealt with, the vast obscuration maneuvers can be called an entire success...
...Berlin audience cheered 15 minutes when the excerpts were played there last November. Boston's applause was perfunctory. In the Herald the music was pronounced "incredibly thick and often excessively boring." To the Transcript Berg was "a composer of the first rank, whose speech shall yet be understood by those who scoff...
Fisticuffer Steve Hamas called at the Berlin home of Germany's onetime Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, chatted "for hours," chiefly about boxing, Prince Wilhelm's hobby. Suddenly the Prince jumped up. He rolled up his sleeves to show his muscles, then pointed to his solar plexus. "Punch me there," cried he. Fisticuffer Hamas punched. Prince Wilhelm smiled, sat down. "It was my hardest punch, too," said Fisticuffer Hamas, "and right in the belly...