Word: falkenstein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Investigator Knickerbocker found 15,000,000 Germans on the dole, wrote touchingly of abject poverty in the Red quarter of Berlin in striking contrast to gay night life around the Kurfursten Damm. In the town of Falkenstein, Saxony, he found half the population on the dole; in Thuringian villages the spectre of starvation. In Essen there was the ever-present fear of a new French invasion of the Ruhr, overshadowing the threat of Communism. Every-where Hitler's power was rising. Nearly three-fourths of Heidelberg's students were Nazis. Germans, facing ruin, were almost unanimous in demanding...