Word: hamburged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Huge crowds stood in Berlin streets, in Hamburg beer gardens, in Magdeburg restaurants listening to a speech over the radio. It was artful-alternating historical review with hysterical threat. The speaker's voice was deep, gruff, staccato as that of a Prussian drillmaster...
Suddenly above the voice rose a banshee screech-air-raid alarm. The crowds shuddered, broke, ran for air-raid cellars. In Hamburg the radio loudspeakers faltered and fell silent. But in Berlin and elsewhere, the harsh Prussian voice spoke on like a trump of doom, echoing through deserted streets and beer halls...
Hero Prien, 31, is a onetime Hamburg-America Line cabin boy who entered the Navy in 1933, saw service in Spain. On the third, fourth and seventh days of World War II he sank the British merchantmen Bosnia, Rio Claro and Gartavon respectively. Adolf Hitler received him and his men at the Chancellery, hung on Prien the Ritter Cross (oversized Iron Cross), the highest German military decoration today. Crowds outside yelled: "Prien, the deed was wonderful!" That night the heroes were regaled at the Wintergarten (vaudeville) where Goebbels presented them each with a book of news clippings and the audience...
...Loeffler boys said nothing to anybody, but on August 28 they skipped out of Brandenburg, got aboard the President Harding at Hamburg. Three days later Germany went...
...Hamburg, patriotic Heinrich Hagenbeck, director of one of the world's greatest zoos, announced that the zoo's elephants will soon replace tractors on German farms, that its camels were being trained to pull wagons. All other Hagenbeck animals, except a pair of each species, were being shipped to Russia. Said Herr Hagenbeck, who gave up his car, took a Shetland pony to work: at the war's end Bolsheviks promised to return the animals or replace them with "rare Russian or Asiatic" specimens...