Word: ckner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best guarded man in the world. The veterans packed the balcony; pressed around the one central pillar supporting the entire ceiling; crowded to the very foot of the speaker's white rostrum. The big men-Hitler, Göebbels, Himmler, Frick, Hess, Ley, Rosenberg, Streicher, Brückner-were there on time (only Göring was absent, holding the fort in Berlin); so were the small fry, like Wilhelm Weber, a radio speaker, Leonhard Reindl, an office clerk, and jolly, buxom Maria Henle, the beer hall's cashier, in the old days a gay waitress who called...
From Frankfurt a special plane escorted by German air-force fighters carried Schmeling to Berlin where 500 amateur boxers in blue tights waited as a guard of honor with the Realmleader's personal adjutant, Lieutenant Friedrich Wilhelm Brückner. State Secretary Walther Funk of the Ministry of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment rushed broad-beamed Max Schmeling off to dine with small, club-footed Paul Joseph Goebbels. "I am delighted with the Hindenburg," said Herr Schmeling. "I hope my fight with Braddock won't be as hard as the one with Louis...
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