Word: eugenics
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...bluejacket who spoke could make allowances for human curiosity. But this was something more. All week long, eager, smiling German-Americans (500 to 2,000 a day) had bustled aboard the Nazi prize cruiser Prinz Eugen to fete her Nazi crew. They carried dozens of white shirts, bags of sugar, cartons of cigarets, beer-trophies few victorious U.S. crews have received in any port...
Among the 97 ships picked for the experiment were four antiquated battleships (Pennsylvania, Nevada, New York, Arkansas); the tired old carrier Saratoga] the elderly Japanese battleship Nagato, the German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen...
...plans; more must go into the organization of the great fleet which will include 40 or more sacrifice ships. There is no dearth of expendable craft, from $50,000,000 battleships (25 years old) and even more valuable carriers, to enemy vessels such as the German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen...
...Communists, Social Democrats, Christian Democrats) and one newcomer, the Liberal Democrats. In a manifesto calling for a "liberal ideology and conception of the state," the Liberal Democrats took up a Weimar Republic tradition. The new party's leaders included two aged democrats: Eugen Schiffer, 85, a Weimar Minister of Finance and Justice; Dr. Wilhelm Külz, 70, former Bürgermeister of Dresden and Weimar Minister of the Interior...
This time Germany had no surface fleet to warrant a show like last war's scuttling at Scapa Flow. Her two largest combat vessels still afloat were cruisers, the Prinz Eugen and the Nürnberg. They signed off by shelling Copenhagen, then gave up to the British in Copenhagen harbor-along with scores of smaller warships and 160,000 tons of merchant shipping. Several destroyers surrendered in Norway...