Word: fatherland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gauleiters about "joyous celebrations" on the fourth anniversary of the Anschluss. But if he took a bath in the Imperial Hotel, where he stayed in the spring of 1938, Hitler would have to dry himself with paper towels. Hotel owners can now be hanged as "traitors to the fatherland" unless they surrender all cloth towels. They are needed for bandages on the Russian front...
When World War II began, German-born George Viereck again peddled ideology for the Fatherland and profit. A naturalized U.S. citizen, registered in Washington as a German-paid "author and journalist," he had a legal peddler's license, drew down more than $100,000 for lauding Adolf Hitler and excoriating the British. Still confident that there was no "infallible safeguard" against propaganda, he said: "I have always regarded it almost a consecration to interpret the land of my fathers to the land of my children...
...last week clever George Viereck found himself on trial in Washington for not telling his children's Government all about his work for his Fatherland. Witnesses testified that bespectacled, thick-lipped George Viereck had helped write speeches for Congressmen (including Minnesota's late Senator Ernest Lundeen), had mailed them throughout the nation in franked envelopes furnished by Congress man Ham Fish's secretary, George Hill (TIME...
Realistic measures of defense called for elimination of telecommunications with the Axis countries, closer passport inspection, control of Axis-owned businesses (on which Argentina and Chile submitted a reservation); and stricter surveillance of local Nazi groups, which openly brag of loyalty to the Fatherland even though a German colonist "wears a sombrero and spurs as wide as wagon wheels...
...German people, he admitted, had already given all they conveniently could, "in consideration of the tense situation regarding textile supplies. Nevertheless . . . as long as a single object of winter clothing remains in the Fatherland, it must go to the front." Though he spoke of shortages at home, Dr. Goebbels did not give a rounded picture of Germany facing its third wartime Christmas. He did not say that each German soldier in frozen Norway has had to give up one of his three blankets for use in Russia. He did not tell of a new rubber-saving rule which forbids workers...