Word: chauss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Main characteristics of the plan are the creation of two wide axes cutting Berlin into four parts, a series of four concentric rings of boulevards around the axes' intersection. The 30-mile East-West axis will run from the Lustgarten, connecting Unter den Linden, Charlottenburger Chaussée, the Heerstrasse. Crossing the East-West axis in the Tiergarten will be the North-South axis, which will run for 24 miles from suburban Wedding, past the old Lehrter station and the Reichstag, to the west of the famed Brandenburg Tor, over the Potsdam Bridge, out toward Schöneberg...
...sample parade of the new German Army, Adolf Hitler's gift to the German people. While the band played Deutschland über Alles and mounted kettledrummers performed traditional feats of skill, 350 light whippet tanks camouflaged ready for action rolled down Unter den Linden and the Charlottenburger Chaussée. Behind came yellow and green armored cars filled with riflemen; armored motorcycles; machine-gun companies; anti-aircraft batteries with searchlights and direction finders; motorized heavy artillery and, to show that the Army is also ready for the swamps of Eastern Europe, an equal number of horse-drawn heavy artillery...
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