Word: fatherland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five Minutes, Under orders from Reichspropaganda-minister P. J. Goebbels, every German store and factory had ceased activity, every radio loudspeaker in the Fatherland was supposed to be on the nationwide Reichstag hookup. Messengers and street sweepers were under orders to drop everything and rush into the nearest cinema where sound apparatus was attuned to Der Führer, and in iron tones the whole German people were told: "There can be no excuse for not having listened to every word spoken by our beloved Leader, Adolf Hitler...
...Leader's idea of wiping out the stain of that "horrible insult, to German Honor," the awarding of the 1936 Nobel Peace Prize to an inmate of a Nazi prison camp.* Not only the Peace but all other Nobel Prizes are forever barred to citizens of the Fatherland. The new decree went on to set up three annual prizes of $40,000 each in the Arts and Sciences to go only to Germans. Reason given by the Ministry of Propaganda officially: "When we Germans do a thing, we do it thoroughly...
...colonies away from us."*; Generalissimo Franco and his Spanish Whites (Hitler is for them);, the League of Nations (Hitler is against it); and Germany's further Rearmament under the Nazi Four-Year Plan (TIME, Sept. 21). In a final German outburst the Messiah, almost weeping, rejoiced that the Fatherland's "truest fighters [have] hung their lives on mine" and conveyed to the Reichstag the revelation that Adolf Hitler can "count on the acquiescence of Him who stands above...
...According to London newspundits, the German troops in Spain seem to be moving in equipped to settle down as an Army of Occupation. Should anything like 60,000 arrive, Generalissimo Franco would simply be Dictator Hitler's puppet. Meanwhile in Germany, decrees were drafted to keep in the Fatherland all men of fighting age (18 to 45 years); an acute grain shortage was admitted in the German press; frantic Nazi campaigns were launched to make Germans save bread crusts, "tighten their belts," and Naziland seemed to be preparing for some great effort next spring or sooner...
...Alfred Rosenberg, "The Great Ideologist of the Nazi Party," holds that colonies have always cost the countries that owned them more than they are worth. Germany must have additional territory, agrees Dr. Rosenberg, but it must be a direct extension of the land surface already covered by the Fatherland-therefore, "War to the East" to establish Nazi rule over the rich Ukraine...