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...Germany is known to have three battleships, possibly a fourth, and two pocket battleships in commission. This week London announced whereabouts of four Nazi capital ships: at Trondheim, Norway, the 35,000-ton Tirpitz and pocket battleship Admiral Scheer; at Kiel the Scharnhorst, at Gdynia the Gneisenau, both out of action for repairs. Unaccounted for by the British is the 10,000-ton Lutzow, possibly Russia's Baltic victim. Or the Russians hit and misidentified one of the ex-battleships, now training ships Schleswig-Holstein and Schlesien...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Ring Around Leningrad | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

Moore-MacCormick ships used to dock with hams from Gdynia, cheese and tinned fish from Norway, fancy breads from Sweden. American Export freighters brought snails from Casablanca, almonds and wines from Marseille, chestnuts and anchovies from Genoa and Naples, figs from Smyrna and Piraeus, Balkan herbs. Along Manhattan's South and Washington Streets, around 200 brokers large and small were having their Christmas rush, their warehouses full of sugar and spice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Nostalgic Note | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

Then it was revealed just how far Germany had been prepared to go. Editor Allan Vougt of the Malmö Arbetet, who is generally considered the Swedish Foreign Office mouthpiece, confirmed the report that German troops had been concentrated at Gdynia and Danzig, ready for immediate transshipment to either Finland or Sweden. And troops were apparently ready to move across Denmark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Post-Mortem on Peace | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...German radio announced they had a German job to perform, that they were to repopulate some of the newly won Polish areas, where the Reich needs "settlers capable of restoring German order." They were to be given property as nearly as possible like that which they left behind. At Gdynia, the port built by the late Polish Government, 14,000 apartments vacated by fleeing Poles awaited them. There the merchant class would presumably be set to work to build up a transformed, Germanized city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Balts' Return | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Even with passports in hand both foreigners and U. S. travelers had only Hobson's choice of liners, no certain sailing dates. Stalled were Poland's Gdynia-America Line, Hapag-Lloyd. Britain and France maintained no dependable schedule. Passengers were warmly urged to try neutral lines. If they were insistent on a French or British ship, booking clerks politely jotted down preferential boats and sailings, but few hours before departure many a sailing might be suspended for from two weeks to kingdom-come. Italian liners, after hugging home ports since the outbreak of war, took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: On No Schedule | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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