Word: eckenberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Occasion was the annual wintersports meet at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, site of the 1936 winter Olympics. No records were made by the skaters in the Olympic Stadium, none by the skiers on the glittering slopes of the Eckenberg. The big show was the crowd itself, which came in well-heeled thousands, filled the villages' hotels, overflowed the sleeping cars parked on sidings, backed up all the way to Munich, two hours away by train. Some skied and skated, more took chocolate on the sunny terraces, all drank and danced until after dawn in bars and casinos and behind the shuttered...
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