Word: europa
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...Down is full of sprightly tunes, includes some dazzling dance routines. The title song, a combination Dale Carnegie-George M. Cohan inspirational piece addressed to "the little guy," has the swing of a fine marching song. But the hit of the show is a ballad called That Mittel-Europa of Mine, sung by highborn refugees. Sample lyrics...
...that Mittel-Europa of mine...
...Europa and Bremen were reported to have been "completely burned out inside by saboteurs...
More & more accounts agreed that one city at least has been really pulverized: Hamburg. Attacks on that vital city in May gutted the huge shipyards of Blohm & Voss, which in peacetime built the Europa, Majestic, Leviathan, Kungsholm, many other giants, and against war built the Bismarck and many destroyers.* In town the Stock Exchange, the Deutsche Bank, the Industriepalast, the Defaka Department Store, the Carl Schultze Theater were among buildings completely burned or knocked down. One of the principal business streets, Möckebergstrasse, was once closed to traffic for three days. Civilian casualties have been high: in some cases...
...could see and hear the Rock erupt an inferno of anti-aircraft fire, and they saw no planes come down. Several blazes lit the scene after the heaviest raid and Spanish sources said hits had been made on docks, barracks, the radio transmitter, water tanks, a gun emplacement on Europa Point...