Word: oechsner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Basic Nazi technique of systematically shocking and sickening the population, making it apathetically submissive to totalitarian control, was worked hard. Last week Germans took United Pressman Fred Oechsner on a tour of captured Polish villages, showed him the bodies of 25 villagers, claimed they had been mutilated and killed by retreating Poles...
...Atrocity" story-of-the-week came not from France or Britain but from Germany. Frederick Oechsner, United Press correspondent with the German Army in Poland, cabled that he had seen 25 bodies in Bydgoszcz (Bromberg), supposedly civilians of German blood who had been killed and mutilated by retreating Poles. German officers claimed there were 800 others who had met the same death...
Meanwhile German beer stocks boomed. Shares of Schultheiss, one of the world's largest breweries, bounded up eight marks to 66 1/2, followed by Oechsner and a joyous skyrocketing of Rhine Wine stocks...