Word: neunkirchen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Front, at week's end scornfully admitting "occasional little exchanges." The French reported a German counteroffensive taking shape in front of Trier, aimed at a key part of the Maginot Line in Sierk, north of Metz. This was designed to reduce the pressure of the French drive toward Neunkirchen. Should the fighting swing west from there, it would likely level the home of Hitler's roving Ambassador, Franz von Papen...
Noble indeed is the owner of Neunkirchen's vast ironworks, Countess Sierstorpü. Said she on a visit to London fortnight ago: "The women of the Saar adore Hitler; he is so sweet, so gentle, so kind! All true German women adore him. I once took 60 women to meet him and they wept unashamedly in their emotion. Three things make the Realmleader adorable to the German woman. First, his sublime kindness. Second, his intense patriotism. Third, his standard of truthfulness and sincerity. Ach, you should see his eyes! You should look into them. Truth and sincerity shine...
...that dreadful roar echoed the entire length of the upper Rhine, and had been heard in five countries: Germany, France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Switzerland. It marked the death of 62 people, injury to over 1,000, total destruction of a gas tank, iron works, benzol plant, all belonging to the Neunkirchen Iron Works, and most of the industrial section of Neunkirchen, a manufacturing city of 40,000 souls in the Saar Valley...
...like cards. Like a vast clay pigeon the top of the tank skimmed over the city and crashed on the railway tracks 2,500 feet away. Parts of a freight train were picked up seven miles away. There was not a whole pane of glass within five miles of Neunkirchen. An hour later when a filling station blew up it seemed no louder than a handclap...