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...westward from below Sedan and headed for the English Channel, the British Isles waited for the blow that was inevitable. Their only countermeasure last week begun in advance was to try to devastate the Ruhr munitions works, to bomb at long range German aircraft production centres at Dessau, Rostock, Oranienburg, Augsburg, Rangsdorf, Johan-nisthal, Gotha, Schonefeld, Halle, Leipzig. Factories in those places were believed to be supplying Germany with 50 warplanes and 90 motors a day. Hopefully the British declared that their own defenses could inflict 40% losses (coming & going) on Nazi bombers who attack them at home. Nonetheless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: R. A. F. Against Odds | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...Heinkel He. 111 combine these talents admirably. The slender Do. 17, equipped with two liquid-cooled, streamlined, inverted-V Daimler-Benz engines, can lug one ton of bombs 1,500 miles at nearly 300 miles an hour; and the Heinkel, produced at Germany's model factory at Oranienburg (where duplicate machinery is set up underground, where workers live like prep-school boys), can carry the same load almost as fast and a little farther-1,600 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: 72-Hour War? | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...song, interrupted the speakers with shouts of gleeful agreement. When a Dr. Krause made the usual reference to "pimps and cattle-dealers." they cried "Filth! Laute Schweinereien! Loud swinishness!" When another speaker advocated that preachers of the teaching of "Rabbi" (Saint) Paul should be thrown out, they cried "to Oranienburg!" ? Germany's most famed concentration camp. When the same speaker dubbed the doctrine of atonement, "racially alien," his hearers again shouted "Oranienburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Nazis v. Jesus Christ | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

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