Word: hamburged
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...personable, athletic young German-American named William Dietrich (William Eythe) graduated from a midwestern college in the late '303, he was offered an attractive proposition by the Nazis. How would he like to take a tour through Germany, with all expenses paid and perhaps study in a Hamburg university for a while? When Dietrich reported this offer to the FBI, he was told to accept...
...London's Chief Magistrate, Sir Bertrand Watson, it was Case No. 24 on his Bow Street Police Court docket. To Britons it was the first step in bringing to justice Britain's No. i traitor, William ("Lord Haw Haw of Hamburg") Joyce, 39. For the purpose, a British statute nearly six centuries old was dusted off. Joyce, charged the Court, "adhered to the King's enemies elsewhere than in the King's realm, to wit, in the German realm contrary to the Treason...
Last week British agents found the one time wine salesman in the Hamburg apart ment of a 35 -year-old divorcee. Reporters first heard that he was lying abed, naked; later, that he had on pink and white pajamas. He asked his captors if they would see to the delivery of letters he had written to Montgomery, Eden and "Wincent" Churchill, professing that he had never wanted war between Germany and the western Allies. He was, he said, "on a mission for the FÜhrer...
...British had caught William Joyce, alias Lord Haw Haw, the Humbug of Hamburg, and they knew exactly what to do with him. He stood accused of one of the oldest crimes known to man: treason...
...quick survey of newly liberated ports facing the North Sea indicated that supplies from the outside world might soon be unloaded. Hamburg's port was a shambles, with the hulks of more than 50 large ships sunk in the harbor. But damage to the docks was not so great as expected, and British minesweepers were busy clearing the channel. At Bremerhaven and Wesermünde it was believed that 20 Liberty ships could soon be docked. Eight ships could dock at Bremen...