Word: pomerania
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...were marched 20 to 40 miles a day without food, crammed into temporary French prison camps. Later they were packed into filthy freight cars and shipped to Germany. Half-starved and battered with gun butts, Hélion and nine comrades were sent to a big baronial estate in Pomerania. Baroness von Z. looked with disgust at her new gang of ragged, dirty farm hands. Her overseer gave tongue to a "wide gamut of howls." He wanted huskier help. For six months Painter Hélion and his mates lived on the lowest level of Nazi serfdom. They ate potato...
...prisoners were entrained and told they were going home. Instead they were taken to a huge baronial estate in Pomerania. Treatment of the prisoners was barbarous: Hélion saw one Frenchman clubbed to death for taking a second helping of soup...
...yards at Hamm . . . the Dortmund-Ems Canal." By last week, after hundreds of bomb clusters had been dropped by the R. A. F. into the Ruhr, it would not have been surprising to hear that Germany was speeding the shift of much of its war production to more remote Pomerania, Bohemia, Austria and Silesia, as predicted by Reich Marshal Hermann Goring...
...labor and military services and learn a trade or profession, continuing at the same time their practical political work within the numerous Party organizations. At the end of this period, one fourth of each class is picked for further training at the Ordensburgen located at Crössensee in Pomerania, Burg Vogelsang in the Rhineland, Sonthofen in Bavaria. Specializing in ideology and the theory of leadership, they spend one year at each castle. Then the final selection is made and those found to possess supreme qualities of leadership go to the Führerschule in Bavaria, where at the feet...
...Born in Pomerania, son of an Army officer, Wedel went to cadet school at 15, was the youngest lieutenant to volunteer for service at the front in World War I. He went through the war unscratched, was kept as a member of Germany's elite postwar General Staff. Almost as corpulent as Göring (from years spent sitting behind a desk at headquarters), Wedel has the same talent for organization. Like Göring, he drinks vast quantities of beer, eats gargantuan meals...