Word: kaiserslautern
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...year-old Pfaelzische Volkszeitung, published in the West German city of Kaiserslautern (pop. 62,000), last week inserted in its regular German edition a special English-language, eight-page section for the 6,000 airmen, soldiers and their families stationed in the area. The paper will be put out once a week. Explained an editorial in the first issue: "[This newspaper] is being published by Germans, for Americans. It is not only for soldiers but also for the housewives, the children and the families . . . It should help to transform coexisting people into neighbors and to have the Americans walking among...
Staff of Life. In Kaiserslautern, Germany, a U.S. court-martial sentenced Army Mess Sergeant Leslie C.Keith to six months at hard labor after he took out his spite against his superior, Master Sergeant J.G. Spicer, by baking a batch of bread loaded with nails, bolts, bottles and light bulbs...
...them on bombing missions. One mutiny was said to have occurred among three squadrons of Field Marshal Göring's pet "Swallows of Death" wing stationed at Magdeburg, who were ordered to intercept Britain's leaflet raiders. Another mutiny was located in the reconnaissance groups at Kaiserslautern, where seven squadrons balked. They, apparently, did not relish the receptions the French in their Curtisses had been extending. This week the French General Staff reported the engagement of 27 Nazi fighters by nine French fighters in which one-third of the Nazis were shot down, none of the French...
...detachment of neutral news correspondents, including five Americans, toured Germany last week from Aachen to Kaiserslautern, guided by German officers who happily, confidently showed them the wonders of the Westwall. The correspondents wrote marveling descriptions of the Wall's depth, complexity and strength; its clever tricks of camouflage; murderous traps for tanks and infantry; ponderous guns for long-range punishment of the Allies. "The Westwall will never be finished, just as a forest never ceases to grow," they quoted one general as saying. They gave the net impression that the Wall was, if not precisely impregnable, so immensely flexible...
...Kaiserslautern, south of Mainz, the celebration took a more serious turn. The superpatriotic crowd turned to raiding and wrecking the homes of "Separatists" people who had advocated the formation of a separate "Rhineland Republic" during the French occupation...