Word: hoffmann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...direct answer to Nazi hopes that the narrow escape would make Adolf Hitler better loved, some Berlin hater winged a brick through the plate-glass window of Hitler's favorite, official photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann. Herr Hitler was all dressed up in luck last week. The brick did not touch the big portrait of the Führer in the window...
...goodies calculated to water many a Nazi mouth: caviar, turkey, sausages, cream puffs, cakes, vodka, Rhine wine, punch, liqueurs, beer. Biggest culinary drawing card: real coffee pouring out of steaming samovars. Most of the guests talked a lot more about eating than about the war, official Hitler Photographer Heinrich Hoffmann describing, between mouthfuls, the gustatory delights of his favorite culinary combination - boiled potatoes and dry champagne...
...Germany's Paul Joseph Goebbels (TIME, July 31). As Commander King-Hall's fourth letter to his "dear German readers" reached Germany, Britishers received in their morning mail copies of a mimeographed pamphlet entitled News From Germany. Published by Dr. Goebbels' good friend H. R. Hoffmann of Starnberg, News From Germany bears beneath its masthead the motto...
Says a letter from Publisher Hoffmann: "The sole aim of News From Germany is to further a better understanding of the aspirations, the achievements, and the spirit of Germany; which, I am convinced, will serve the cause of world peace. The receipt of unbiased and accurate information will help readers to form just opinions." But Publisher Hoffmann's information is hardly unbiased or accurate, nor has it the humor, conscious and unconscious, that Commander King-Hall's news-letter has. Sample headlines...
...Stars and Stripes Forever," March Sousa *Overture to "William Tell" Rossini *Cradle Song Brahms (Orchestration by G. H. L. Smith) *Waltz and Bacchanale, "Faust" Gounod *"Triana" from "Iberia" Albeniz (Orchestration by E. F. Arbos) *Barcarolle from "Tales of Hoffmann" Offenbach *Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg Morning Mood-Anitra's Dance--In the Hall of the Troll King Women's Glee Club of the State Teachers College at Bridgewater *"On the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Strauss *"Turkey in the Straw" Guion *American Fantasy Herbert *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...