Word: bremen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...under four occupation governments: Russia in Berlin and the East (less the Silesian and East Prussian areas to be given to the Soviet Union's new Poland) ; the U.S. in Bavaria, in the South; Britain in a central and western area including Leipzig, Dusseldorf, and the ports of Bremen and Hamburg on the strategic North Sea coastline ; France in the Rhineland (all of the areas were still to be defined exactly...
Twelve administrative sections will oversee every phase of German life. A transport section will supervise all traffic systems, and (with the Navy) handle port and coastal operations. (Although occupying an inland zone, the U.S. forces will have access to the North Sea port of Bremen.) The political section, presumably to be under the State Department's Robert Murphy, will direct both foreign and domestic affairs. Food, agriculture and forestry, price control and rationing, public works and utilities, internal and foreign trade, industrial conversion and liquidation will be under a huge economics section. Brigadier General ("Wild Bill") Donovan...
...felt the false hopes of abortive offensives, Atlantic Walls and secret weapons-and still hollower feelings after the fall of Tunis, Sicily, Naples, Rome; Kharkov, Kiev, Odessa, Bucharest; Paris, Marseilles, Antwerp; Riga, Sofia, Warsaw, Budapest; Aachen and Cracow; Frankfurt and Danzig; Essen and Vienna; Magdeburg and Nürenberg; Bremen, Milan, Munich, Berlin...
...Bremen wave length, Lord Haw-Haw denounced Bolshevism-and tried it again in Hamburg. The words were indistinct ; Lord Haw-Haw was patently stewed...
With Berlin and Bremen silent, Hamburg became the official broadcaster of the German High Command's daily communiqués (which fell hours behind schedule "owing to communications difficulties"). Dr. Karl Scharping, propaganda pet of Goebbels, asserted from Hamburg: "Germany ... is a force which grows. . . ." When the Hamburg radio announced the fall of the city, Deutschland über Alles filled...