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Word: fallersleben (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1938-1938
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...proletarians: a motor car. Since Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, he has driven the conservative tycoons of the German automobile industry frantic by demanding that they produce a really cheap "People's Car." Last May he finally took the job away from them and at Fallersleben laid the cornerstone of a factory nearly two miles long by a mile wide, "The Largest Factory of Any Kind in Europe." This plant is not scheduled to turn out cars until winter after next, but when orders were accepted last week, German workers scrambled so eagerly to sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Baby Buggies? | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...setting blazoned with swastikas, at Fallersleben in the heart of the German Reich, Führer Adolf Hitler fortnight ago surmounted the cornerstone of what he promised would eventually be the world's largest automobile factory. Perched there he spoke with the pride and feeling of an automobile salesman on the subject of Germany's new Strength-through-Joy (Kraft durch Freude) flivver. Within easy pointing distance were three slick models for the new 65-miles-per-hour, $396 Volkswagen, which Der Führer expects will one day be as much a part of every German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Joyous Lizzie | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

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