Word: danzig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conscious citizens of Danzig were jubilant. At Schichau's shipyard in the mouth of the Vistula work was proceeding on two great ocean liners, biggest ever to be built in the ancient Hanseatic town. When war came with that year's early harvest one had been launched and later was slowly completed, but only the hull of the other had been riveted-and after German workers marched to war, work on it was abandoned for nearly seven years...
...took, handing her proudly over to Britain's White Star Line which ran her for years as the Homeric. Last year she was broken up for scrap. Meantime work was again started on her weathering sister ship on the keel site of 1914. In 1922, two years after Danzig became a Free City, the graceful beauty was launched, christened the Columbus. Until the advent of the Bremen and Europa seven years later she was Germany's largest ship, crack vessel of its mercantile marine; then the Columbus fell into third place. Re-turbined in 1929, the Columbus filled...
...Aryan who has the slightest Germanic strain is a "German" to Adolf Hitler, who has laid down in Mein Kampf the mystic affinity of all "German blood." Last week "Germans" in the Free State of Danzig finally forced the dissolution of the last remaining political party opposed to the Danzig Nazis, the Catholic Centrists, whose leaders were thrown into jail by Nazi stalwarts, charged with "treason." This made Danzig a 100% Nazi State, nearly justified the New York Times's, excited headline: "DANZIG NAZIS LINK FREE CITY TO REICH...
Abruptly the Jewish organ Danziger Echo was suspended for ten months. The only other Opposition organ still appearing, the Catholic Volkszeitung, was wiped out for printing a letter from Danzig Bishop Edward O'Rourke in which he wrote: "The Senate has made war on all the Free City's Christians. I appeal to all Catholics to rally around the clergy...
This week the German Air Minister, bull-necked General Hermann Wilhelm Göring, is scheduled to go to Danzig for a gala opera night of Parsifal, and most Danzigers assumed that from this night on their once Free City will be German in fact, if not by a Göring proclamation. Shopkeepers hoped they have not been duped by Nazi assurances that Danzig is going to boom as General Göring turns it into a great German air base and "Spearhead against Russia...