Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German motorist could drive from the Baltic Sea at Travemünde to Salzburg, at the foot of the Alps, without slowing for cross traffic or tooting his horn for an intersection. With almost the same ease, he could start at Cologne, near the Belgian border, zip past Berlin and wind up at the Polish frontier...
...From Berlin, centre of the Autobahnen, Herr Hitler's workers had also laid highspeed roads to Falkenburg, within 95 miles of the Polish Corridor; to Hamburg, in the northwest corner of the Reich; to Saarbrücken on the French frontier; to Munich in the south and Vienna in the southeast. As Herr Hitler was opening the Auto Show, 300,000 workmen were resting in 218 barrack towns for the next day of digging, blasting and concrete-pouring on Autobahnen in every quarter of the Reich, even in East Prussia, on the other side of the Polish Corridor...
...with academic ideals, stiff-necked with homey truths and tactlessness, as U. S. Ambassador to Germany. That Martha Dodd is her father's daughter any reader of Through Embassy Eyes will quickly see. Her account of the increasingly uneasy four and a half years the Dodds spent in Berlin is like a series of blurted indiscretions. But no one could live so long in such a focal spot in complete diplomatic immunity: some of what Martha Dodd has to tell is worth listening to, and now & again she pokes the nodding reader in the ribs with a shrewd...
Nothing in her book quite lives up to her wide-eyed statement on p. 14 that "our family ties were abnormally close" - unless it is her name for the family's official residence in Berlin - "The Chancery." Before she would admit that she was really in chancery, Germany had other, very different holds on her. When she landed there in 1933, she was practically a predigested Nazi. She liked everything she saw, discounted rumors of things unseen...
Born in Hanover of German Jewish parentage the greater part of his life has been spend between the universities of Vienna and Berlin as an instructor and a research student in astronomy. In January he finally left Potsdam, his last official residence in Germany, and after six weeks in England, sailed for the United States where he intends to take up permanent residence...