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Germans ordered French-speaking Lorrainers to choose between evacuating to unoccupied France or being sent to Poland, Germany's Siberia. Almost all of the 800,000 Frenchmen naturally chose France. The Germans, under Gauleiter Josef Burckel, gave them a few hours to pack a suitcase and acquire not more than 2,000 francs in cash, then shoved them across the border. Each day five to seven trains, flying the medieval cross of Lorraine, carried some 6,000 Lorrainers to Lyon, thence south to the Midi. Mostly the evacuees were farmers, welcome to the fallow land of southern France...
Warned that Austrian veal was becoming scarce and that the famed Wiener Schnitzel cutlet would soon be a thing of the past, Nazi Commissioner Josef Burckel replied: "If higher interests demand the disappearance of the Wiener Schnitzel then what I say is-let the Wiener Schnitzel go to the devil...
...Vienna to put on the plebiscite campaign, last week had barracks at Wöllersdorf-which was used as a prison camp for opponents of Dollfuss and later Schuschnigg-soaked with gasoline and set afire. While thousands gaped and the flames roared skyward with such intense heat that Orator Burckel was nearly scorched upon his rostrum and perspiration poured down his beet-red face, he shouted that Nazis will never again be locked up at Wöllersdorf. In Vienna there were rumors in responsible quarters that former Vice Chancellor Major Emil Fey did not recently commit suicide...
...Goring's suite was the Saar's new Nazi governor, Josef Burckel. His gem to Danzig voters: "If the Marxists say Germany has brought in professional murderers, I say that German mothers ar happy that their sons are being taught to keep their mouths shut, and it is the pride of German fathers to say 'My son fought...
HARVARD COLBY Lincoln, 3b. r.f., Anderson Gordon, r.f. c.f., Williams Conlon, s.s. l.f., Huhn Owen, 1b. l.b., Burckel Murphy, c. c., Lanpheer Jenkins, 2b. 3b., Royal Janin, l.f. 2b., Fransen Hallock, c.f. s.s., Niles Russell, p. p., Callahan...
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