Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steel sharks that sank 6,000 commercial ships in World War I were active again last week, concentrated between Ireland and Portugal, from the English Channel toward mid-Atlantic; although, Adolf Hitler had 72 submarines compared to 140 the Kaiser had when his war ended. British raiders were also in evidence, preying on German shipping. Total losses for the week: Germany, four ships, 14,764 tons; Allies, 16 ships, 89,841 tons. Mystery of the week: where was the Bremen, unreported twelve days after her dash out of New York Harbor...
...German counteroffensive taking shape in front of Trier, aimed at a key part of the Maginot Line in Sierk, north of Metz. This was designed to reduce the pressure of the French drive toward Neunkirchen. Should the fighting swing west from there, it would likely level the home of Hitler's roving Ambassador, Franz von Papen...
...massing of Red Russia's armies on the border east of them did not apparently worry the Poles. They figured that J. Stalin was merely planting his men to make sure A. Hitler did not forget to stop when he reached Russia, and to collect his slice of Poland without fighting, reopen the trans-Poland rail line from Minsk to Berlin, if & when the conquest was complete. Between the Poles and Stalin still lay the Pripet Marshes where they could hole up for the winter, await the outcome of their Allies' effort in the West...
...clarify its neutrality stand, on which Allied plane replacements depend heavily; 2) reluctance to invite German "atrocities"; 3) delay until objectives on the Western Front were truly defined and prepared; 4) delay in the hope that the German people could be disaffected from A. Hitler by the War of Pamphlets...
Into a German munitions factory last week walked Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goring, most popular (after Hitler) and most portly of Nazis. On the eighth day of Germany's advance into Poland, he had a great job to do. To munitions workers standing with outstretched arms in the shadow of long-barreled artillery, to Germans waiting at the radio all over the Reich, to listeners in countries at war with Germany or neutral, Adolf Hitler's second in command came bearing tidings of victory, offers of peace, warnings of struggle, and bad news...