Word: fatherland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final build-up of tense emotion, 400 new German heavy bombers and fighting aircraft of all sorts literally darkened the sky above Nürnberg, made windows rattle with the bellow of their motors and brought gulps to German throats. Then, with every radio station in the Fatherland broadcasting his words, with every German who had a radio set instructed to be listening in, and with loudspeakers blaring in the streets and squares of every German city, town and village, Adolf Hitler spoke with his breath-taking simplicity: "If I had the Ural Mountains, if we possessed Siberia...
...Some foreign creditors of Germany who can get their money in no other way are now taking payment in ships which they can sail away from the Fatherland...
...thus adding two age classes to the Soviet Army machine. The corps diplomatique in Berlin was also asked to remember that last year the French conscript term was doubled from one year to two and that in fact two years is now the rule in most countries adjoining the Fatherland. To put things thus quietly and sensibly to the German people is not emotional Herr Hitler's way. His high-pressure Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment was turned on full blast last week to announce such absurdities as that Russia's army had been increased...
...against Germany, the heart of Europe, and thereby to take it into their fatal pincers . . . German solidarity must not be impaired by religious worry . . . Communism will not be struck in its deepest roots by military force but through the resurrection-in Jesus Christ-of Europe in general and our Fatherland in particular. . . . During the last few months within Germany's own border the Catholic Church, Pope, Bishops and Priests have been brought in slanderous connection with Bolshevism, and books, periodicals and newspapers have spoken of the brotherhood between Rome and Moscow. Spain has opened the eyes of those...
...emotional, intuitive Adolf Hitler the state of affairs in Spain last week was such a stimulus to do something that he virtually denuded Germany of naval defense, sending the Fatherland's three "pocket battleships" to Spanish waters. Their commander, Rear Admiral Rolf Carls, bombarded Spanish Government ships with radio threats that if force was again used to so much as search another German steamer "we shall answer force with force...