Word: munich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scandal of 1937 was that Nazi Labor Camps for boys were generally built close to the camps for girls, with a resulting high incidence of pregnancy. This summer, camps for the different sexes were separated, frequently by several miles. From Munich, however, accounts came last week of a new Labor Service scandal: at a rally in Nymphenburg Park appeared buxom, sun-bronzed Nazi wenches from the camps, engaging in athletic contests with Apollos from the boys' camps, both wearing nothing but G-strings. Photographers were barred by the police...
...last week, German citizens got scores of reminders that, as during the last war, their needs are still wholly subordinate, to the army's. Workers about to set out on vacation tours or cruises of the Strength Through Joy organization found these had all been "canceled indefinitely." In Munich and in most German cities near the Eastern border, people waited on street corners for the motor busses which usually take them to work, then were told they had better walk, since the army had commandeered the busses. Even mail trucks of the German Post Office stopped delivering letters, began...
Many physicians in Munich received orders to leave their private practice and report for "50 days' service" with the army medical corps, each doctor to bring with him food for two days and two changes of linen. The army bought foodstuffs at such a rate that private German grocers reported they could not get many staples. A luxury which disappeared almost at once was seltzer water, in great demand by the army to quench officers' thirst in the heat of August...
...little Austrian Tyrolean town of Salzburg started the summer music festivals in honor of its illustrious son, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. These festivals were attended by the good, pipe-smoking Bürger of Salzburg, by a few hardy music-lovers from nearby Vienna and Munich, by an occasional tourist or student from the great world beyond the Alps. Their programs were simple and unimportant. In 1918. however, a group of Viennese musicians, headed by Composer Richard Strauss, Conductor Franz Schalk, Stage Director Max Reinhardt and Playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal. decided to give Salzburg a bigger place on the musical...
...Aryan librettist and was planning an opera on a German historical subject. The librettist: Dr. Joseph Gregor, 50-year-old director of the Theatrical Collection in Vienna's famed National Library. Arrangements were soon made to have Strauss's forthcoming opus premiered at the opening of Munich's world-famed summer opera season. But last week, as the rehearsals were well under way, and the score of the opera was released to the public, war-loving Nazis got another unpleasant surprise. Obstinate Bavarian Strauss and his guaranteed Aryan librettist had concocted an impassioned plea against...