Word: muniching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adolf Hitler arrived at the Munich railway station last week boiling mad about some detail of the arrangements which had gone awry, berated a beet-red perspiring Schutzstaffel officer in explosive gutturals, and astonished the easy-going Bavarian populace by his harsh, tense mien. Next minute Der Führer, having saluted II Duce inside the station in the presence of privileged bigwigs, emerged beaming with his guest, while heavy German guns crashed 21 times in salute. Unlike Stalin, who always drives fast in a closed Hispano (see p. 22), Hitler and Mussolini sat side by side in a slowly...
Since Art is a Munich specialty, since Adolf Hitler used to paint and is distinctly "arty," the program followed by II Duce-apart from a quick round of laying wreaths on Nazi shrines in Munich "The Capital of the Nazi Party and of Nazidom"-was loaded heavily with Kunst (Art). Under this head came 400 of Germany's prettiest stage and cinema actresses. At tea in the Museum of German Art, the Dictators kissed cinewomen's hands while they gushed, but Boxer Max Schmeling was also a guest and the German actresses seemed to prefer Schmeling...
...Congress; Julius Streicher, rabid Jew hater, welcomed the Führer and the party members to Nurnberg, Streicher's own stamping ground. And as is traditional, Hitler did not address the first session, instead sat messiah-like on the haupttribüne while rasping-voiced Adolf Wagner, Munich Nazi leader, read the Fuhrer's Proclamation. Nazis laud the Proclamation as the coming year's party program, indicating in vague generalities the German course in foreign, internal affairs...
...pushed their way into the konditorei shops, gorged themselves on fancy cakes, coffee with plumes of whipped cream floating on top. For months, since stanch-bellied Minister President Hermann Goring inaugurated the Four-Year Plan for Nazi self-sufficiency, the Germans have been deprived of their whipped cream. In Munich, Berlin, where critical tourists foregather, such delicacies have always been available, but at high prices to native Germans using controlled currency...
...letter just handed to him. It said that since he thought so little of General Franco and so much of the Red Government in Spain he was to receive an opportunity to meet his Red friends. The guards were to hurl him from the plane over Leftist Spam. At Munich, next stop, Putzy managed to slip away, took 17 hours to escape to the Swiss frontier. Shortly after he reached Zurich he was invited by the Government to return to Germany "because the whole affair was a practical joke...