Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Therefore last week Helga and Gertrud, the two little granddaughters of Old Paul von Hindenburg, dutifully kept their starched dresses clean of grass stains and their opinions to themselves. They were not the only ones balked of celebrating the 81st Birthday of the President of the German Republic. Scores, nay, hundreds of civic organizations had applied for permits to parade and joyfully demonstrate, in Berlin, before the Presidential Mansion...
...German newsgatherers, totally excluded from the "celebration," had to be content with interviewing at Berlin the President's nephew, Herbert von Hindenburg, who told them his favorite Hindenburg anecdote...
...Millions of Germans await from you, Herr Reichspraesident, immediate intervention to rid the nation of these low criminal pests. Seizure of the criminals can be accomplished by speedy action for there ought to be enough German-blooded Germans in the Department of Justice to make that possible...
Recent utterances of General von Ludendorff indicate that he classes as "pests" not only Freemasons but Jews, Catholics, Protestants and "all enemies of the German people and their religion...
...meets his onetime sweetheart (Lola Lane), learns she has married Eddie's onetime pal and fellow song-plugger (Raymond Guion), both of whom are singing and dancing for the delectation of the troops. From that point the story fizzles into a sequence of capture by the Germans when Eddie meets in a shell-hole an officer who had seduced his sister. Behind the German lines Eddie learns from the officer that his mother has died and the piece ends with Eddie lachrymosely chanting the Kaddish, Jewish prayer for the dead...