Word: godesberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many Germans believed that even this Western concession was too much. Cried Socialist Franz Neumann: ". . . Godesberg . . . Munich ... !" The fact remained that if Russia really lifted the blockade, that would be a victory for the U.S., even if limited and far from final...
...newspaper experience turned out to be the least of his worries. Against stiff NBC competition-for NBC had been in the field for years and many Europeans thought it the official U.S. network-he and his friend Bill Shirer in Berlin ably handled the disintegrating events of 1938-Anschluss, Godesberg, Munich...
Hitler in Action. The Czech crisis took Shirer and his microphone to "Wagnerian" Godesberg, where the Swastika and the Union Jack flew side by side-"very appropriate, I find...
...Godesberg Shirer had a glimpse of Adolf Hitler. "I was having breakfast in the garden of the Dreesen Hotel. . . when the great man suddenly appeared. ... X. one of Germany's leading editors, who secretly despises the regime, nudged me: 'Look at his walk!' On inspection it was a very curious walk indeed. In the first place, it was very ladylike. Dainty little steps. In the second place, every few steps he cocked his shoulder nervously, his left leg snapping up as he did so. ... And now I understand the meaning of an expression the party hacks were...
...ruined Taylor ascribes partly to a psychological change in Daladier. He volunteers a new and, he believes, authentic, story to explain that change: during the meeting at Munich, when Hitler sprang his famous trick-new demands even more severe than those the British and French had already rejected at Godesberg-Daladier completely lost his temper, stalked out of the room and slammed the door...