Word: platz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Luxembourg Unvarnished. Into tiny Luxembourg, whose Bourbon ruler Grand Duchess Charlotte was a refugee in Lisbon, goose-stepped squads of strapping, green-uniformed German police armed with heavy pistols and long daggers. On Place Guillaume (now Wilhelm-Platz) they lined up for instructions from Hitler's new Civil Commissioner, Gustav Simon, a two-fisted Nazi pressure-man who won his spurs fighting the League of Nations in the Saar and became Gauleiter of the Coblenz-Trier district...
With special loudspeakers blaring out an account of the proceedings for those unable to see, the Führer appeared on the balcony of the Chancellery. Waving to the throngs in the Wilhelm-Platz below, he turned to the Nazi leaders around him, talked, laughed, poked them in the ribs. Only after several minutes of horse play did he turn to the crowd, grinning and waving some more...