Word: heil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hitched to the crack Nord Express out of Paris for Berlin, a privately chartered sleeping car was hailed in the dead of night at Cologne this week with shouts of "Heil Windsor!" Sliding into Berlin early next morning, the Duke and Duchess were met on the platform by Nazi Labor Front Leader Dr. Robert Ley who presented a bouquet of red roses. Excited German women cried "We schön sie aussieht" ("how well she looks!") while the Duchess' two maids pointed out to porters her 30 pieces of luggage, most of it still labeled "W. S." (Wallis Simpson...
...Alois Tearoom's formal opening, every table was reserved in advance. Crowds pressed against the windows, gaped in as waiters moved among the customers, arms bobbing, chorusing "Heil Hitler." Peeved with the good German burghers who pestered him with questions about Brother Adolf, Alois next day called in a sign painter, had him plaster in German script across one wall; "Sup di duhn und fret didick und holl din mul von politik." ("Drink a lot and eat a lot but don't talk politics...
...last week a fast-gaining formula was to advertise that the German deceased "died in the faith of Adolf Hitler." The Cologne Court of Appeals upheld last week the decision of the lower court which recently jail-sentenced a Cologne smart aleck who replied to a greeting of "Heil Hitler!" by saying "Heil London!" According to the Court of Appeals, this is a "gross misdemeanor" like spitting on the Cross...
...clarion voice. In 1919 he was Military Governor at Cologne, cordially hated by its Germans, as were all the Allied "conquerors." Last week German Ambassador von Ribbentrop, instead of bowing to King George when presented by Sir Sidney, clicked his heels smartly together, gave the Nazi salute and cried, "Heil Hitler!" in ringing tones. Then, according to some of the astonished diplomats whose accounts somewhat differed afterward, he advanced toward King George, saluted a second time, again advanced and saluted a third time, as though trying by repeated example to get George VI to give the Nazi salute...
Looking like a parliament of soldiers, the uniformed Reichstag waited 30 minutes for its Messiah to arrive in flaring black military breeches, well-shined boots and unadorned brown shirt. Up jumped the Reichstag to salute and "HEIL HITLER!" Down sat the Reichstag. Minister of the Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick nominated Minister-Prasident-Generaloberst Hermann Wilhelm Goring, fresh from his parleys in Rome with II Duce, to be Speaker again. Up jumped the Reichstag, thus electing him unanimously...