Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knows this better than the German people. For the peace treaty of Versailles imposed burdens . . . which could not have been paid off even in a hundred years, although it has been proved precisely by American teachers of constitutional law, historians and professors of history that Germany was no more to blame for the outbreak of the war than any other nation...
...German mark is a questionable currency based on some microscopic amount of gold. The Italian lira is practically fiat money. The Russian ruble is a bootleg product. The French franc has had a precarious existence...
...Adolf Hitler last week showed more grimly than ever his determination to press his demands against Poland (see col. 3), the Free City of Danzig, the old Hanseatic town on the Baltic, became Europe's chief danger spot. Danzig is 95% German. It is ruled by Nazis. It is politically (if not economically) free from Polish rule. Students of the Treaty of Versailles have long criticized the detachment of Danzig from Germany at the World War's end and the placing of the city in the Polish customs union. If it is accepted that Austria, the Sudetenland...
...tough Poles appeared ready & willing to fight for Danzig or any part of Poland. Several Polish divisions lay outside Danzig ready to march in if the German Army made one false step in Danzig's direction. The Warsaw press urged the Government to copy Herr Hitler's tactics and assume a protectorate over Danzig. Since the Führer saw fit to denounce the Polish-German Treaty in a public speech, the Polish Government decided to answer him in kind. This week Foreign Minister Josef Beck and Premier Felicjan Slawoj-Sklad-kowski are to go before the Polish...
Sessions of the German Reichstag have been few and far between since the Nazis came to power. In the last six years obedient Nazi deputies have been called together only ten times and on each occasion for only one purpose: to act as a sounding board while Führer Adolf Hitler solemnly explains some high Nazi policy to his nation and the world...