Word: parabellum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Discovered and overpowered in a turret of the Doom castle of Wilhelm Hohenzollern was a German armed with parabellum (50-shot automatic gun) and 12-in. dagger. To police he explained that he bore a message from Adolf Hitler, that he planned to fire the gun in the air to attract the ex-Kaiser's attention, to use the dagger on watchdogs. Hustled back to Germany, he was identified as one Heinrich Fuecker, onetime inmate of both prison and asylum. Wilhelm Hohenzollern shrugged off the incident: "It's nothing. The fellow is probably...
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