Word: hrer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hrer Hitler took Memel last week with enough flourish to make it seem valuable. It is not. The district is a homespun, colorless countryside 1,099 square miles in area bounded by East Prussia, the Baltic Sea and Lithuania. The population is a piddling 152,000, some 78% of them claimed by Germany. Memel has no industries important enough for the Nazis to boast of and Germany has many better ports. To Lithuania, however, it represents one-sixth of her industry, and it was the nation's only good outlet to the sea. With Memel gone, Lithuania...
...taking Memel, Führer Hitler reaffirmed the old principle (temporarily forgotten in Czecho-Slovakia) of bringing back all the German "children" into the Reich's fold. Once decided on, the occupation of Memel was carried out with the Führer's usual one-two-three precision...
What distinguished the actual occupation was that the Führer personally "struck" from the sea. As if playing at naval conquest, he traveled to Memel on the pocket battleship Deutschland, followed by 60 other fighting vessels including two battleships, three cruisers, two destroyer flotillas, three torpedo-boat flotillas, numerous small craft. In the face of this attack the Lithuanian Navy, consisting of one 22-year-old, 500-ton patrol ship (a rebuilt German minesweeper), which mounts two three-inch guns and three machine guns, puffed out to sea for destination unknown, as homeless as the Flying Dutchman. Herr Hitler...
Czech territory. Meanwhile, Premier Volosin, failing to get protection from Führer Hitler or assistance from Rumania's King Carol, fled into Rumania in a peasant's oxcart...
Carpatho-Ukraine, since Munich, was the centre of Führer Hitler's Ukrainian autonomy movement. Perhaps last week the Führer figured that since he was soon going to have all he wanted of Eastern Europe anyway, he might just as well let the Hungarians take Carpatho-Ukraine for him. It was noteworthy that the Hungarian Parliament quickly passed stringent anti-Semitic bills. Chances were that Ferenc Szalasi, imprisoned Nazi leader, would soon be released. Uneasy over the future, Hungary was careful to conform to Nazi "ideals" last week...