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...port and naval facilities of northeast Germany formed another natural group of targets for the British, who had only to find Germany's broad river,mouths at night to bomb Emden, Wilhelmshaven, Cuxhaven, Bremen, Hamburg, Kiel. The upper reaches of the Rhine and the Main guided them to Frankfort, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Waldshut. On the Weser lie Gottingen, Kassel, Rotenburg-all aircraft centres. On the Saale, tributary of the Elbe, were the big synthetic oil works of Leuna, the Zeiss instrument works at Jena...
London v. Hamburg. Whether or not Germany was feinting to study her foe's reaction, as she did twice last winter before invading the Lowlands, last week the Battle of Britain stayed in the air and at sea. Bad weather reduced the fighting from the busy week prior, but a battle of words raged over results...
...Reich Chancellery (1920) and later Minister of the Treasury, lived down his memorable Merkle. He built up a good law practice with Partner Westrick, representing foreign corporations in the Reich. Among their clients: Ford, General Electric Co. (of Germany), I. T. & T., Harris Forbes, and the semiofficial Hamburg-American Line. Most of the New York banking houses, which floated German bonds during the '205, used Albert and Westrick...
...ischer-Wirtschaftsraum (Continental-Central-European Economic Space), extending from Gibraltar to the Vistula and from the Norwegian coast to Sicily. With equal assurance, German steel companies offered steel to South American countries at prices considerably lower than U. S. quotations with a cash guarantee of delivery by October, and Hamburg shipping firms advised Ecuadorian cotton mills to have extensive orders of cotton ready for shipment to Germany on German vessels by September...
Judged by the scanty number of Germans shot down, the British defenses were weak. But correspondingly few British ships were lost in heavy retaliatory raids, night after night, over the Ruhr, Bremen, Hamburg, as far east as Berlin. So upsetting to the Germans were these attacks that children were evacuated from western Germany and Air Marshal Göring was reported visiting there to calm the populace. Fact is, as frankly acknowledged by the authoritative British weekly The Aeroplane: "There is no real defense against night bombing." At the coast and around London and other populous centres, Britain has balloon...