Word: frankfurt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Graf has been professionally active in opera, in Europe and the United States, since 1925. Before coming to the United States in 1934 he was stage director of opera houses in Breslau, Frankfurt, Basle and Prague...
...There has been much musical exchange within the Axis. Titian-dyed, corseted Italian Coloratura Soprano Toti dal Monte (a onetime success in the U. S.) sang to great applause in Berlin. The Cologne Opera is touring The Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy; the Frankfurt am Main Opera the Balkans. The Berlin State Opera will visit Milan and Rome this spring; the Rome Opera will visit Germany...
...with which Germany's fifth column handed over Norway, the Cabinet met to "consider the situation of foreigners in the country." On the Western Front activity increased. Artillery boomed all day long and at night patrols sought prisoners for information. French military sources reported heavy German concentrations near Frankfurt, practically said an offensive was coming. Where would it strike first? The Netherlands was most nervous. As civilians fled from frontier districts, fresh troops moved in. All Army leaves were canceled. Martial law was extended. With roads and bridges mined, trees girded with dynamite, the Dutch hoped they could give...
...flow like molten lava, glow like human flesh, Elkan was picked by the Government to carve its biggest monuments to Germany's World War I dead. Art-loving Germans trooped for miles to view the massive, grief-weighted, maternal figures he set up in the public squares of Frankfurt, Saarbrucken and Wickrath along the French frontier...
Last week the Frankfurt radio station made Germany's first admission of her U-boat losses: 35. Unless work has progressed far more rapidly than is believed on the swarm of 150-tonners which the Nazis are reported mass-producing, the Allies have still the larger submarine fleet-but less opportunity to use it to advantage. The sending of groups of submarines, not merely isolated raiders, on the "particularly hazardous service" of raiding Helgoland Bight, revealed the Admiralty's anxiety to press the sea war home to Germany before spring comes...