Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attitude of the Low Countries in case of mass flights over their territory with the possibility of more or less forced landings and more or less forced shelterings of submarines in their territorial waters. The reply obviously was, 'absolute neutrality will be maintained by all means.' . . . Berlin thereupon did not announce whether there was a consideration of any change of plan or not. Complete uncertainty is the result...
...Scapa Flow; had not been there, in good probability, since before Royal Oak was sunk by Lieut. Commander Günther Prien's submarine raid. Testator to this probability was First Flying Lieutenant Hermann von Bülow of the German Air Force, who explained in Berlin that the air raid on Scapa Flow, three days after Royal Oak was torpedoed, was a "cleanup job" left to his crowd by the Nazi naval arm. Said...
...central pillar supporting the entire ceiling; crowded to the very foot of the speaker's white rostrum. The big men-Hitler, Göebbels, Himmler, Frick, Hess, Ley, Rosenberg, Streicher, Brückner-were there on time (only Göring was absent, holding the fort in Berlin); so were the small fry, like Wilhelm Weber, a radio speaker, Leonhard Reindl, an office clerk, and jolly, buxom Maria Henle, the beer hall's cashier, in the old days a gay waitress who called the boys Adolf, Rudolf, Heinrich and Hermann, and often bragged about splashing beer...
...Berlin papers took no consistent, officially inspired line. Most grumbled about the work of foreigners. None admitted the possibility of internal unrest, of underground revolt.* None capitalized on the martyr angle...
...direct answer to Nazi hopes that the narrow escape would make Adolf Hitler better loved, some Berlin hater winged a brick through the plate-glass window of Hitler's favorite, official photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann. Herr Hitler was all dressed up in luck last week. The brick did not touch the big portrait of the Führer in the window...