Word: fatherland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rgermeister Baron of Schoeppenstedt, dressed immaculately in evening clothes, top hat, opened the city's new natatorium. He told his audience that "schport"* would make fine citizens for the Fatherland and that swimming was the finest of all "schports." Without more ado he plunged into the swimming pool, top hat and all. On all sides exploded salvos of admiring "hochs...
...rate, it was not until scandals of the infamous conditions (huddling like sheep of some 10,000 to 15,000 persons in dirty, tumbledown sheds scarcely large enough for half that number) at the Schneidemühl concentration camp had shaken the whole Fatherland, that a cinema, a sewing circle for girls, a sporting club for men were organized to bring cheer to the miserable...
...Polish of mismanagement, charged that the incident was indirectly due to the Versailles Treaty, "bewailed the fact that Germans had to entrust their safety to "Polish management," a German term meaning mismanagement. They held that the Polish boundary must be revised so as to join East Prussia with the Fatherland...
German People: Patriotic Germans of every district and clan have nominated me for the highest office in the Fatherland. I follow this call, after earnest meditation, in fidelity to my country. ... If this duty calls me to act on constitutional grounds, without regard to party, person, origin or calling, as President, I shall not be found wanting...
...extend my hand to every German who thinks of the Nation, who protects from within and without the dignity of the German name and who desires social peace and beg him "help to resurrect our Fatherland...