Word: magdeburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refusal to fly for fear their planes had been sabotaged or because there were not enough Messerschmitts fighters to escort 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...
Huge crowds stood in Berlin streets, in Hamburg beer gardens, in Magdeburg restaurants listening to a speech over the radio. It was artful-alternating historical review with hysterical threat. The speaker's voice was deep, gruff, staccato as that of a Prussian drillmaster...
...invaluable aid in war, when railroads are occupied with troop and munition movements. Last week the Baltic Sea was joined to this system. A 1,200-ton lighter could have come in off the Baltic, down the Oder past Stettin, by canal through the centre of Berlin to Magdeburg on the Elbe, to Brunswick, to Hanover to Minden on the Weser, to Munster on the Ems, and down into Dortmund in the heart of the rich mining and industrial valley of the Ruhr, a tributary of the Rhine. Thus provided was a cheap route to the Ruhr from Sweden...
...through the last 50 years such a Mittelland waterway has been dreamed of by pan-Germans, opposed by jealous pre-War German States. But last week when the last ditch, connecting Brunswick and Magdeburg, was officially opened up, no German raised his voice against it. Fear that Ruhr coal might start moving into markets supplied by Upper Silesia was quelled by a pfennig-per-ton-per-kilometer extra canal fee between Magdeburg and Hanover...
...Stahlhelm does not judge men by their ancestors but by their deeds. Not only is he not thinking of resigning, but he intends to move from the Magdeburg Steel Helmet headquarters to Berlin, where he will be in closer touch with the government in carrying out special duties...