Word: nazis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Balkans (see p. 21). They became almost indefensible to the Allies even if Russia's peace pact with Germany was only a peace pact. It gave Adolf Hitler his greatest victory since the bloodless European war began, it gave him a triumph to celebrate at his Nazi Party Congress of Peace at Niirnberg Sept. 2, and it left Britain and France gasping...
...Europe's new war. It is the war of menace and mystery, of hysteria, panic, rumor, aimed at shattering an enemy's morale as big guns shatter a fort. Last week saw the biggest battle of the war-the battle of Danzig on the Vistula, where Nazi forces had been stalemated four months by the imperturbable resistance of its Polish defenders...
Warsaw struck back, arrested the Nazi leader of Polish Germans, disbanded pro-Nazi German organizations. And although Germany swung troops into Slovakia, P'o-land's Ambassador to the U. S., Count Jerzy Potocki, summed up Polish feeling in Washington: "Just as surely as you see me sitting here there will be a general war if Germany attempts to change the status of Danzig." Member of one of the few great Polish landowning families that fought for Polish independence, blond, fox-hunting Count Potocki had been so completely tagged as Washington's leading diplomatic socialite that...
Minister of Labor Franz Seldte put into effect last week. Women, decreed Minister Seldte, must not be made to work more than ten hours a day, 54 hours a week. Nazi Seldte's reason: "Women must have plenty of time for their natural profession, motherhood...
Last week Nazi journals forlornly counterattacked, warning that chic, slim figures do not fit into German life, that dresses which are good-looking in one season are the same the next, that German men do not like to see their wives in a new dress or hat every few months, that women should learn "to abandon a dress when it is used up and not when it becomes unfashionable." Prime mover in this audacious campaign is brush-haired, portly Dr. Robert Ley (pronounced Lie), Labor Front Leader whose tirades against alcohol, nicotine and debauchery have long excited the mirth...