Word: munich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sobbing, blubbering, thousands of Viennese alternately laughed, cried, cheered and were all broken up outside the Imperial Hotel as they clamored for Adolf Hitler. Said a Prussian officer of the Guard, surveying the Viennese through his icy monocle: "Such transports! Berlin itself has never gone as wild as this. Munich perhaps, ja Munich...
...great Henkell imitation champagne family. Meanwhile, King George VI received Herr Ribbentrop, the new German Foreign Minister and onetime Henkell salesman, who in public makes a point of greeting His Majesty with the Nazi salute (TIME, Feb. 15, 1937). Below stairs, Buckingham Palace secretaries were receiving news reports from Munich, denied from Berlin, that that great south German city had awakened to find German mobilization against Austria far advanced...
...State luncheon, with plenty of wine, was offered them by Prime Minister & Mrs. Neville Chamberlain, who had invited pro-French Mr. & Mrs. Winston Churchill, pro-German Lord & Lady Londonderry and all the Cabinet's biggest wigs & wives. The news tickers at No. 10 were chattering about how all Munich's motor vehicles, including beer trucks, had been commandeered and were roaring out along Adolf Hitler's concrete military Autobahnen toward Austria...
...Schuschnigg was secretly dispatched by prominent Austrians to confer at Munich with Hitler's Nazi henchmen, Heinrich Himmler and Rudolf Hess. He went back to Vienna convinced that the Nazis would never offer Austria honorable terms of voluntary association with Germany...
Founded in Munich by the American violinist, Beatrice Dohme, this ensemble is the only group which plays those archaic instruments. Although they have toured Europe for many years, this is their first visit to America...