Word: fatherland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German army magazine Deutsche Wehr ("German Defense") pointed with pride to a "fundamental difference" between the army of the Fatherland and that of other European countries. In France during peace time, declared Deutsche Wehr, the typical army company unit of 170 men is not kept at full strength, but in Germany it is. In France the calling up of reservists is thus in its first stage simply a filling up of the army to its nominal full strength, but in Germany the calling of reservists means adding manpower to an army already full. The regular German Army, boasted Deutsche Wehr...
...Berlin Boersen-Zeitung am Mittag sportingly editorialized: "We who for many years were proud and happy over Schmeling's victories must now show that we can be fair losers. . . . He may be assured that the Fatherland will never forget his 14 years' record...
...blackmailers, toadies, shysters, Packingtown countesses, Blue Coast playboys, a bank glamor-girl, a society medium. But although every nation has its representative, the fighting is not on nationalistic lines. "No rich man," says Jules Bertillon, "is a patriot, no rich man a friend. They have all only got one fatherland-the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend-the mistress they're promising to divorce their wife for." Some of the spiders...
...shooting dead Prefect Manciu of Jassy, Rumania's university town, who had arrested students for anti-Semitic outrages. Results for him: a trial, acquittal, increased popularity, formation of the secret terrorist society "The League of the Archangel Michael," forerunner of the Iron Guard and the All-for-the-Fatherland Party...
...Nazis but democratic Germans of the Republic who in 1931 secured the arrest, conviction and sentencing to 18 months' imprisonment of Carl von Ossietsky for the crime of editing articles which could be construed as divulging to the enemies of the Fatherland what was already an open secret known to all Europe-that Germany had from the start violated the Treaty of Versailles by clandestine rearmament, even under Chancellor Stresemann...