Word: germania
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story was pretty tall, but the United Press climbed it in a jiffy. Over its wires last week came a story of a German boy of 17, whom the camp guards called "Father Germania." In a Copenhagen refugee camp, where women outnumbered the men 3-to-1, the boy had reportedly fathered 45 babies...
...does not know. Story is traceable to frontier station Tinglev, where its originator, local newspaper tipster, a railway clerk, says he got it from colleague who heard it Monday from still unidentified Danish policeman on refugee train who in turn was reporting narrative of another policeman who said Father Germania was on his train crossing the frontier fortnight...
...Intercourse and Fertility are as native and natural as those that recall forgotten troubles and tragedies-Cape Fear, Cape Foulweather, Gunsight Hills, Broken Bow, Massacre Lake, Deadman Creek. "The other Tokyo." World War II has shown that local pride-of-name can now stand up to anything. Except for Germania and Swastika, not a single U.S. town has shed its German name. All four Tokyos have survived, showing, says Author Stewart, "that the state of mind seems to be more strongly than ever that the names belong to us-to alter them would be repudiation of our own history...
...sunk by her captain's orders, a woeful sight to see, No more shall rise Germania's pride, the Admiral Graf Spee...