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...Danzig itself started a local Nazi Heimwehr of some 10,000 men. Authentic reports had it that boatloads of artillery and anti-aircraft had arrived by German ships. In the Danzig shipyards German employers were ordered by the political leaders to dismiss Polish workers. Out beyond on the fortified Hel Peninsula, which is Polish, antiaircraft guns took a shot at a German plane after giving it a warning salvo...
Germans were greeting His Royal Highness with broken-English shouts of "Hel-low Teddy," the Duke replying by giving the Nazi salute in the famed languid, halfway fashion of Adolf Hitler. Bug-eyed German moppets could be heard shouting to each other all week "Da geht der Konig von England." ("There goes the King of England...
...Mischievous Norse Fire-God of a shape transformable at will. Thor, God of War and Thunder, chained him up when he grew too obstreperous. But Loki will come again to lead forth the hosts of Hel at Twilight of the Gods...
...common belief sent all souls to Hel. This was a gloomy land, vast and pathless, in one part of which was the hall of the reigning goddess. A wall and river which surrounded this seem to be almost identically the same as those which the higher families believed were about Walhalla. Much dispute has arisen as to the unity and consistency of the beliefs in Walhalla and Hel. Some of the Eddic songs speak of Hel and Walhalla separately. while others do not mention the latter at all. The beliefs are inconsistent, because by one all souls are sent...