Word: hamburgers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Power? Good. But the British said there was nothing left of Hamburg and then had to bomb it 119 additional times. The military works are underground. Essen? Hitler is a fool if he hasn't moved the Krupp works underground into Austria, and left empty factories for the bombers. . . . There'll be 6,000,000 fighting men underground when we reach Japan...
Omens of the End. Swedish travelers, from Berlin, dazed and awestruck, described a city of cavedwellers, told of destruction on the Hamburg scale, of extreme suffering from the bitter cold and the total disruption of fuel and food distribution. Fresh bombs were falling into old fires still burning; stiff winds spread the flames...
...Admiral Karpf anger, a four-masted bark of 2,853 tons, put out from Port Germein,'South Australia, on Feb. 8, 1938. Aboard were 44 cadets and 16 officers and men of the Hamburg-America Line. Five weeks later she radioed her position from somewhere south of New Zealand and said she would round Cape Horn. That was the last ever heard of her until the lily maiden was found...
...done to Germany. Last week Air Vice Marshal R. H. M. S. Saundby, Deputy Chief of the Bomber Command, supported the claim with figures. Said he: One-fourth of the area in German cities attacked by the R.A.F. since May 11, 1940 has been devastated. In the ruins of Hamburg, Düsseldorf and Cologne "civilized life ... is no longer possible." Seventeen major cities in northwest Germany are "liabilities . . . to the enemy war machine." Six others need only one more good pasting to join those 17. In all, 31 cities throughout Germany have been smacked since last December...
...Russian Budapesters are all German-trained and have spent most of their professional lives in such German cities as Berlin, Leipzig and Hamburg. Long since exiled from the Third Reich (all are Jewish), they make their headquarters in Washington, D.C. They practice three hours a day with religious regularity, pausing occasionally for tea (see cut). All disputes about interpretation are put to a majority vote. On their long Pullman hops they are incessant poker and bridge players, winning and losing substantial sums among themselves. Their drinking habits, not nearly as blended as their tone, are: Roismann, tomato juice; Alexander Schneider...