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...Essen, to the 70th birthday celebration of Dr. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, went Adolf Hitler himself, to congratulate the head of Germany's greatest munitions plant, award him a golden badge of honor...
...Each side was "softening up" the other and a report from far-off Turkey carried by travelers from Germany indicated the kind of damage both sides were already suffering. According to the accounts the Rhineland populace was thoroughly terrorized by R. A. F.'s incessant raiding, especially at Essen, home of the vast Krupp plants...
Crushed Counter-Thrust. The Lowlands were not fighting alone. Ninety minutes after receiving their call for help, the Royal Air Force and French Air Corps took wing en masse to harry the oncoming German columns in Belgium and Holland, to bomb the Rhineland, including Essen, heart of the steelmaking Ruhr, in retaliation for German attacks on France's industrial centres...
...placed the occupied sections of Norway under a Reich Commissar, and assigned Heinrich Himmler's Gestapo the task of "pacifying" the country. To exercise supreme Government authority in Norway, Hitler sent to Oslo one of his youngest and most ardent disciples, 42-year-old Josef Terboven, Gauleiter of Essen, publisher of Field Marshal Hermann Goring's Essener National-Zeitung, a Jew-hater and energetic protagonist of the Nazi Herrenvolk (ruling caste) ideology...
...German press considered the speech a masterpiece. Deeds, no longer words, would be the order. The Essen National Zeitung gloated: "The moment has come in which the war desired by England must rain down in full force upon the British Isles themselves." But early this week precipitation...