Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year most Germans are not sending Christmas cards because Minister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels has requested that money which would be used on such cards be contributed to Nazi Winter Relief. To enable housewives to spice the traditional German Christmas puddings, cakes and cookies, the State last week released ginger, aniseed, vanilla and cinnamon for sale for the first time since World War II broke. Still withheld from Hausfrauen at any price are pepper, caraway, paprika. Nazi authorities urged the making of "eggless and butterless cookies...
...papers in the Reich featured the Fuhrer's decision that, as a special Christmas dispensation, each German man may buy one necktie, each woman one pair of stockings, without the usual deduction from his or her annual clothing ration of "100 points"-ordinarily a necktie exhausts three points, a pair of stockings six points. Knitting yarn and even thread are so drastically rationed in the Reich that few German women can make clothes for their relatives as Christmas presents. Toy stores were practically sold out weeks ago, and last week in Berlin's famed Wertheim...
...dolls completely swept the German product from British doll marts, and clerks were enthusiastic. They banged the heads of the dolls against their counters, chirped at customers: "Just see-these American dolls are unbreakable...
LONDON--The British Admiralty announced today that three of Germany's six cruisers had been sunk or crippled and that these, together with the sinking of a German submarine and the "suicide" of the pocket battleship Graf Spee, brought to five the number of warships lost by the Germans since last Wednesday...
...modern cases, the possibility of producing fine books in large volume is demonstrated by the achievements of contemporary Russian, French, Italian, and German presses. Their editions were issued very cheaply, in tens or hundreds of thousands, but the calibre of printing and illustration is still high...