Word: partenkirchen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sixty miles southwest of Munich, on the fringe of the Bavarian Alps, lie the twin villages of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The houses have brightly painted walls. The inns have tiled stoves in the dining rooms. Woodcutters in green felt hats, puffing pipes that reach down to their waists, use oxcarts to haul pine logs down the snowy mountain roads. Last week the wintry quiet of Garmisch-Partenkirchen was pleasantly shattered by an event which mystified the woodcutters as much as it delighted the innkeepers by accounting for the presence in the town of some 50,000 visitors, including Realmleader Hitler himself...
...scene of the games which were held at Chamonix in 1924, at St. Moritz in 1928 and Lake Placid in 1932, Garmisch-Partenkirchen was selected two years ago because it was supposed to be the finest winter sports resort in Germany. Since then, Germany's Olympic Committee has spent 3,000,000 marks ($1,200,000) building headquarters for officials, a mile bobsled run, an artificial ice rink, a huge ski stadium, a ski jump so tall it makes the town's old one look like a mink-slide. All these preparations were keyed to the widespread German...
...German Organizing Committee announced Realmleader Hitler, who had arrived by train from Munich an hour before. Into the profound snowy silence the voice of Der Führer came out of six loudspeakers: "I hereby declare these Fourth Olympic Winter Games of the year 1936, held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, open." In a steel bowl high up above the stadium on one side of the ski-jump, a pale spout of flame from...
Adolf Hitler was by no means the only bigwig in Garmisch-Partenkirchen last week. His entourage included Air Minister Göring, Minister of Propaganda Goebbels, War Minister von Blomberg, Julius Streicher, Interior Minister Frick, Storm Troop Leader Lutze and almost every other important Nazi in Germany. Nonetheless, Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall of the New York Times, which last autumn gave the loudest bursts of publicity to Jeremiah T. Mahoney's efforts to have the U. S. withdraw from the 1936 Olympic Games (TIME, Nov. 4), felt justified in writing: ". . . Not the slightest evidence of religious, political or racial...
...holds her in high esteem, entertains romantic admiration for her achievements and her character as a prime example of German womanhood, is apparent to everyone. Functioning as an inspiration both to Herr Hitler and her female contemporaries is a job which, for Cinemactress Riefenstahl, is never done. At Garmisch-Partenkirchen last week, much too occupied to engage in her customary practice of skiing up & down hill in a bathing suit to acquire a tan, she was even busier than usual, keeping an expert Nazi eye on winter sports for Führer Hitler and giving visitors to Germany a startling...