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Word: birthday (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adolf Hitler has given Germany so many territorial presents in the past three years that, as a present for Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday this week, the German Government thought of giving one to him-Danzig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Birthday Present? | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...Poland's No. 2 port. It handles two-thirds the tonnage of nearby, all-Polish Gdynia. For four years Danzig has been run by a German Nazi Government. For Germany to take Danzig would be, politically, like the Italians taking Albania. The question that made Danzig a birthday box with a bomb in it was: how much more grabbing will the "Peace Front" permit the Axis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Birthday Present? | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...western border. On their part, the Poles ordered Polish Nazis to take off their distinctive white socks, and moved new divisions into place opposite the German Army concentrations. In Danzig itself, newspapers reported that Adolf Hitler would be made an honorary citizen of the Free City on his birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Birthday Present? | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Three days before the Hitler birthday, the Danzig crisis took an apparent turn for the better. A "deal" was reported in the making, whereby Poland would voluntarily give Danzig to Germany. The Germans were said, in any case, to be planning no invasion of Danzig across Polish soil: to save Poland's face, the invasion would come from adjoining East Prussia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Birthday Present? | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...Birthday. Meanwhile, if nothing intervenes, Greater Germany will vociferously acclaim the soth birthday of its creator and Führer this week. On the same day-April 20-Herr Himmler will quietly, without public fanfare, celebrate the fifth anniversary of his appointment as Inspector of the Gestapo. Troops will march down Berlin's Unter den Linden and through the crowded Tiergarten as the 50-year-old Führer receives the frenzied homage of an adoring nation. Clustered around Herr Hitler on a reviewing stand are to be the familiar, conspicuous figures of the Nazi hierarchy-fat, strapping Field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Secret Policeman | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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