Word: rathaus
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...Leipzig G.I.s scouted the deserted Rathaus (City Hall), reported: "There's some civilian stiffs upstairs...
Meanwhile an estimated 1,133 streets and squares, notably Rathaus Platz in Vienna, acquired the name of Adolf Hitler. He delivered 96 public speeches, attended eleven opera performances (way below par), vanquished two rivals (Benes and Kurt von Schuschnigg, Austria's last Chancellor), sold 900,000 new copies of Mein Kampf in Germany besides selling it widely in Italy and Insurgent Spain. His only loss was in eyesight: he had to begin wearing spectacles for work. Last week Herr Hitler entertained at a Christmas party 7,000 workmen now building Berlin's new mammoth Chancellery, told them: "The next decade...
...city proper of Nürnberg (see map) are the Deutscher Hof (hotel of the Führer), the Grand (hotel of the guests of the Fuhrer); ancient Nürnberg Castle, where most-friendly journalists are entertained; the Rathaus, where the Dictator was greeted as usual this week when he entered Nürnberg; and Adolf Hitler Square, the big marketplace back of the Liebfrauenkirche across which unending rivers of uniformed Germans were to march hour after hour past the Führer...
...mounting machine guns and antitank guns, 40,000 German soldiers riding in trucks, clinking their metal and squeaking in their leather, had been sweeping over the border since dawn. At Salzburg, Innsbruck, Kufstein, the German commanders rolled in, sent their staff officers to summon the Austrian commanders to the Rathaus, where the Austrians with unanimous cheerfulness accepted the decree that they were now part of the German Army...
...terrific were the cheers of Hamburgers outside the Rathaus that, after his speech, Realmleader Hitler rushed onto a balcony in a high state of nervous exaltation. "People of Hamburg!" he cried. "This has certainly been a great day in your lives but for me it is even greater. I came to fill you with confidence but you have given me confidence...