Word: deutschland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were the two pocket battleships and the big cruisers Admiral Hipper, Seydlitz and Derfflinger. So were Germany's two new carriers Graf Zeppelin and Deutschland. Finally, there was a brand-new 40,000-ton battleship, probably Friedrich der Grosse, and a few cruisers newly completed in German and occupied yards...
There is only one thing that they, the veterans of the last war, and the Nazi youth of today have in common: the sense of "Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles. . . ." and the blind obedience to the state--which Mr. Kruse calls supreme devotion...
Worse than the humiliation was the new fear. Now the Germans could assemble a pretty formidable fleet-the battleship Tirpitz, the pocket battleships Lützow and Admiral Scheer, the aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin (and perhaps another, the Deutschland), the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, four heavy and perhaps eight light cruisers, about 25 destroyers. This was probably more than the British could quickly assemble at any one pressure point. Such a striking force could be used with overwhelming effect against convoys. It could sever British lines to Archangel and the Mediterranean. It might raid Iceland, as the U.S. Fleet...
...German withdrawal to new winter positions on the Russian Front has ended. So said Berlin's official Dienst aus Deutschland last week. A Soviet Russian spokesman exulted that Russian armies have "begun to win and will continue to win." The week's action tabbed the German statement as premature, the Russian boast as overly enthusiastic...
...Leningrad, Germany's official foreign news service, Dienst aus Deutschland, indicated last week that the German High Command was satisfied to hoard this hard nut and not try to crack it. "A prestige attack on this city, in which probably every cellar is loaded with dynamite, would demand sacrifices that cannot be justified, for our really decisive forces are needed on another front...