Word: garmisch
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...skiing at Garmisch, in the crisp air on the crisp snow, was done. The hard studies at the Kriegsakademie in Berlin and the Panzerschule outside Berlin were over...
Occasion was the annual wintersports meet at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, site of the 1936 winter Olympics. No records were made by the skaters in the Olympic Stadium, none by the skiers on the glittering slopes of the Eckenberg. The big show was the crowd itself, which came in well-heeled thousands, filled the villages' hotels, overflowed the sleeping cars parked on sidings, backed up all the way to Munich, two hours away by train. Some skied and skated, more took chocolate on the sunny terraces, all drank and danced until after dawn in bars and casinos and behind the shuttered...
...peacetime winters Garmisch is almost as cosmopolitan as St. Moritz or Antibes, and though visitors this year, except for newspaper men, were almost 100% Aryan German, the effect remained. The expensive ladies of Germany's first families were blanketed in furs that looked as if they came from Paris, the men in tweeds that certainly came from England. Youngsters in the Alpenhof bar sang Night and Day and St. Louis Blues in English...
...recorded in North American competition. Then he flew back to New York to compete three days later in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Cup meet at Bear Mountain, his first and favorite hill. Most Norwegians frown on skyscraping ski jumps built for headlines rather than for sport-like that at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps, where jumpers have leaped 300 ft. The Bear Mountain ski jump is just a sporting little hill, constructed for jumps no longer than...
...seven weeks the Allies had been balked by a tall, lithe athlete of 49, whose starving troops call him "The Bull." Olympic athletes of 1936 remember him, Lieut. General Eduard Dietl, as organizer of the winter sports program at Garmisch-Partenkirchen. His division of mountain troops, which he trained himself and led, as he did all things, with fierce personal daring through the Carpathians in last autumn's Polish campaign, was bottled up when British destroyers and the battleship Warspite blasted into Narvik on April 12. Steely and aquiline, Bull Dietl is said to have gone aloft...