Word: deutschland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Captain Paul Koenig, 66, Wartime commander of the famed German merchant submarine Deutschland; after long illness; in Gnadau, Germany. In July 1916 he startled the world by running the Deutschland through the Allied blockade, bobbing up off the Virginia Capes with a valuable cargo of dyestuffs. While he unloaded and reloaded at Baltimore, eight Allied warships waited in fanwise formation outside the three-mile limit. The Deutschland slipped through them, carried Captain Koenig home to a triumph that was redoubled when he made another round trip to the U. S. the following autumn...
...unsubscribed tickets would be distributed to loyal Nazis. When Chancellor Hitler entered the Wagner family box the audience rose to its feet, extended right arms in the Nazi salute, cheered wildly, had to be hushed into silence. Mindful of strictures caused by the audience's bellowing ''Deutschland uber Alles" after the first post-War Festival in 1924, officials distributed printed slips stating: "Our leader wishes the audience to refrain at the close of the opera from singing 'Deutschland uber Alles' and the 'Horst Wessel' song [Nazi anthem] or indulging in any other kind...
Applause was brief but sincere. The whole audience rose and sang Deutschland Uber Alles as Adolf Hitler marched from the room...
...dozen women in the building's elevator; puffed out a truck's tarpaulin, overturning the truck; whisked a woman's hoarded wealth out of her petticoat pocket; blew a painter out of his saddle high up in the cables of Brooklyn Bridge; blew the S. S. Deutschland broadside against the head of a Hudson River pier; blew homebound Warren S. Coyle's automobile off the road into a stone wall in New Jersey, killing Coyle...
...Heil Hitler! Deutschland erwache! Juda verrecke!" they bellowed as he emerged waving his black felt hat. "Hail Hitler! Germany awake! Perish Juda!" Wasting not a second, Chancellor Hitler piled into his Mercedes beside the chauffeur, shot off between lines of police to form his Cabinet with record speed. There were rumors, doubtless untrue, but alarming, that General von Schleicher & Friends were about to attempt a "General's Putsch" and proclaim restoration of the House of Hohenzollern. In less than an hour the new Hitler Cabinet had met for a brief conference in the Reich Chancellery and Germans were staring...