Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strictly on the verboten list, B. B. C.'s straight and accurate news broadcasts nevertheless are not music to Gestapo ears. Germans caught listening to them in groups of three or more, for example, may find themselves in concentration camps. The B. B. C. broadcasts should have been hard for Gestapo snoopers to spot, because they are usually spoken in flawless German, but the Bow Bell chimes proved a dead giveaway. Last fortnight B. B. C. decided to keep the Bow Bells at home for the Cockneys, substituted for German ears a softly ticking metronome instead...
That many German radio listeners should prefer un-Nazified B. B. C. news has been a source of surprise and indignation to Nazidom. In March the Nazis decided to fight fire with fire. "Our enemies," went the Nazi boast, "will soon realize that we are superior to them in the ether as well as in the air." On the day of the Memel occupation, Germany inaugurated medium-wave broadcasts in English, directed at England. The first "Heer iss Hamburg" bulletin depicted Nazi Memel as a "hurricane of happiness...
Finding its broadcasts getting nothing more than attentive laughter in Britain, the Nazi radio last month decided to provide more English news, jokes, gems from the London Times. London newspaper stories were hurriedly translated by German journalists in London, telephoned to Berlin, retranslated into more Munchausen English and waved back to Britain twelve hours later. When the laughter continued, the Propaganda Ministry grudgingly hired an Englishman, a member of Sir Oswald Mosley's Fascist Blackshirts, at 1,000 marks ($400) a month to do the job the British way. Attempting to get across...
...Olaf's gymnasium was a two-day festival of choral music. Delegations of husky Lutheran choristers from all the surrounding States had come to St. Olaf to sing. Together they made a huge chorus of 1,400 voices. When that chorus boomed forth its repertory of old German chorals, it was something to hear...
Post readers found the articles sensational; Post editors were proud of their scoop. General Krivitsky told how Stalin had tried to set up a puppet state in Spain, how he had shot his generals on framed evidence furnished by the German Gestapo, how his every political move was directed toward making a deal with Hitler. Although a few informed critics questioned some of General Krivitsky's facts and many open-minded persons questioned his disinterest, no one questioned his identity until last fortnight, when the editors of the Communist New Masses popped out from behind the curtains and. leveling...