Word: konstanz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swiss on the shores of the Lake of Constance have a good barometer of German affairs. They look at the Germans living on the German parts of the lake, in and around the old bishop's city of Konstanz (pop. 33,000). Recently, a Swiss newspaper on the border went through back numbers of Konstanz' local Bodensee Rundschau, found 3,785 obituary announcements for 3,575 men, 210 officers killed on the Russian front between June 22, 1941 and Dec. 1, 1943. The oldest, Artillery General Foehrenbach, was 70; the youngest, a Hitler Youth volunteer, was 17. Forty...
...Konstanz is probably typical of the Germany which Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, the rest of the Nazi Hierarchy must lead to defeat. Even a year ago, the Rundschau was uneasy about the look of the men on leave: they "seem like foreigners. . . . Many of them don't speak a word, spend the whole three weeks alone, avoiding everyone...
...through the Low Countries and France in May 1940. They thought the granddaughter of the Salvation Army's founder was a spy; the Qestapo grilled her for 24 hours. Then she was sent to Germany, to the Petershausen Camp for Civilian Internees in a large public school at Konstanz, the south German city on the shores of the Boden...