Word: dentschland
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...trim rail schedules, and the Poles have sharply reduced coal exports to satellite neighbors to give priority to their own ailing economy. Because of the cutback in Polish coal, East Germany's vital metalworking industry has been seriously crippled. "The coal problem." said the party organ Neues Dentschland last month, "is a question of our entire people's economy." Industrial production may have to be curtailed in Czechoslovakia, which leans heavily on Polish coal. Battered Hungary's coal industry is operating at only 25% to 30% of normal. The satellites have been trying to get coal from...
Women kissed and cried. Strangers embraced. Radios played Dentschland uber Alles (Germany Over All) over & over, over & over repeated the news that Adolf Hitler had received, through Spain's Francisco Franco, Marshal Pétain 's offer to surrender. But in the Champagne country of France, where the yellow dust raised by men and machines lay thick on the trampled vines, Germans and Frenchmen still slaughtered one another. Adolf Hitler ordered no armistice, Pétain no unconditional surrender...
...week's end, when the Dentschland reached Manhattan under its own steam, Captain Karl Steincke pooh-poohed the sabotage talk, left cause-finding to marine fire inspectors. A troublemaker since she was built in Hamburg in 1923, the Deutschland in 1925 collided with the Britisher Martin Carl in the English Channel, same year cracked two other ships in the Elbe, had a mild fire at sea in 1929, and in 1933 stove a hole in the Munson Liner Munargo off the Statue of Liberty in New York...
German attempts at counter-propaganda mostly misfired. Most spectacular were the visits of the Dentschland, commercial submarine, to Baltimore, and the U-53 (which sank nine merchantmen off Nantucket) to Newport. As sporting events, both these voyages appealed to the U. S. imagination, but in retrospect they soon seemed a threat...
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