Word: germersheim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desperation the fat Mayor of Germersheim leaped upon a truck, begged the mob in the Fatherland's name to disgrace Germany no further, promised to go to Munich and intercede in their behalf...
Shrewd and essentially phlegmatic, the German peasants knew a good offer when they saw it. Nevertheless they prepared to remain at Germersheim, according to their leaders, "until the Government agrees to let us keep the vines we have...
German-American Vines. So unusual is mob violence in Germany that the whole Fatherland was shocked last week, when 5.000 Rhineland peasants sullenly surrounded the District Court House at quaint Germersheim. Shaking gnarled fists, brandishing keen pruning knives, they behaved exactly like U. S. citizens about to lynch...
...Munich, Dr. Heinrich Held, Bavarian Prime Minister, declared martial law in Germersheim...
Stirred by complaints from the district, the Bavarian Minister of Agriculture at Munich recently ordered all American vines near Germersheim destroyed. That roused the mob, As it grew uglier last week 150 State police dashed up in motorcars, formed a cordon around Germersheim Court House. Doubling in fury, the mob broke the cordon, stoned and stormed the neat brick structure...