Word: deutschlands
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...Germans sing a lot, especially with their beer. Marching to the soccer field, they thunder out "Heute gehört tins Deutschland, Morgen die ganze Welt" ("Today we have Germany, tomorrow the world"). Marching back, they sing their sad, old soldier favorite, "Ich hatt' einen Kameraden" ("I had a comrade"). Italians seem to like to listen rather than sing, are always buying more records (mainly operatic) for their phonographs...
...Trondheim fleet actually includes two carriers, they are probably converted merchantmen (the Graf Zeppelin and Deutschland are not thought to be ready). The British feel that they could lick such a force. But the burden of keeping enough ships at hand to counter the many moves open to this fleet in being has a "momentous effect" on Allied strategy...
...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...