Word: heim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the 705 were descendants of German immigrants who, in the past 100 years, turned southern Brazil into a New World Bavaria. During the '30s, as good Volksdeutsche, they had gone heim ins Reich (home to the Reich). War trapped them, but apparently they had not minded too much. Although Brazil was at war with Germany (and had a division of troops in action) none of Rio's visitors complained of having been sent to concentration camps...
...marked contrast to the Manner heim Line was the German film, Blitzkrieg im Westen. It was designed to overawe all who see it. If it drives U. S. audiences under the bed, it will succeed, but it seemed more likely to shock complacent Americans and make them aware of the swift, titanic, destructive power of the greatest military force in the world today: the German Army...
...Mein Heim, mein Land...
...raid the British claimed to have wrought havoc over a 200-mile stretch of Rhineland between Dusseldorf and Mann heim. Their special objectives were gasoline tanks and refineries, the fuel supply which Germany needs for her planes and motorized equipment. Such attacks in vited retaliation, but the British knew they would soon be bombed anyhow...
...triumph has been the brilliant defense put up by the Finns so far. Close to the Field Marshal in mapping strategy is Major General Karl Lennart Oesch, Chief of Staff of the Army and one of the bright young men Manner heim had sent to Germany for training...