Word: essener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Enough of German Art and enough of fake war was what Benito Mussolini had had by this time. He wanted to inspect one of the most closely guarded set of secrets in Germany: the mighty Krupp munitions works at Essen. Only trouble with this was that, instead of speeding a few miles to Berlin as planned, the Dictators would have to travel clear across Germany again to Essen in the west, then cross it once more to Berlin. But what Mussolini wants Mussolini wants. To a microphone leaped German Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels, broadcast...
From Münster Kurt Jooss moved on to Essen where his troupe grew its first teeth...
...Sigurd Leeder, who assists Jooss as dance instructor, Ernst Uthoff, who dances and acts as the troupe's paymaster, Rudolf Pescht, last week's prodigal son, who began his career selling books. In Essen Kurt Jooss brooded for weeks over a danse macabre, worked up The Green Table which he took to the International Dance Congress in Paris in 1932 where he won the gold medal and 25,000 francs...
Fifteen minutes later, in Essen, Germany in the person of Adolf Hitler entered the largest single factory room in Europe, the sooty locomotive assembly plant at the Krupp works. At that instant every whistle in Germany blasted, for a full minute. Then came a full minute of silence. Not an automobile, not a pedestrian budged. In Berlin the Rev. Stewart Winfield Herman, acting pastor of the American Church, was slapped smartly in the face for not raising his hand in the Nazi salute during this period of ecstasy...
...hours after he had stopped talking Germans tramped through the streets of Essen, singing in the pouring rain...