Word: hamburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hardly a day passes throughout the year that four or five large passenger liners do not arrive in New York from Southampton, Le Havre, Hamburg, Genoa, Buenos Aires, Bremen. Glasgow, Cherbourg, Villefranche, Oslo, Valparaiso, Havana. And hardly a day passes that these ships do not set down on the Manhattan docks a score or more of passengers whose opinions on gold, Hitler, husbands, Russian food, literature, Disarmament, legs, do not make news of a kind. But at no time during the year is such news so plentiful as during the first ten days of September. Then ocean travel...
...Onetime heavyweight Champion Max Schmeling: a bout against blond young Walter Neusel. watched by the biggest German prizefight crowd (100,000) on record; when Neusel failed to leave his corner of the ring for the ninth round: in Hamburg...
Most moving to My Leader's Hamburg hearers was a half hour passage in the 90-minute speech in which he told the story of his life from housepainter to statesman, traced the growth of his faith that somehow Socialism must be fused with Nationalism to produce a German synthesis of effort for the glory of the Fatherland...
...terrific were the cheers of Hamburgers outside the Rathaus that, after his speech, Realmleader Hitler rushed onto a balcony in a high state of nervous exaltation. "People of Hamburg!" he cried. "This has certainly been a great day in your lives but for me it is even greater. I came to fill you with confidence but you have given me confidence...
Results Analyzed. Though all observers agreed that Hamburg had given Hitler one of the major ovations of his life, Hamburg voted less than 4 to i for Hitler, lowest majority of any great city in the Reich. Berlin also was far below the national average, voted 5 to 1. Leader Hitler made his best showing in the rural regions of East Prussia, Pomerania and Franconia...