Word: rnberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every Czechoslovak knew that each day masses of Germans at Nürnberg, as many as 250,000 in a single audience, were bellowing cheers at each fresh threat by a German leader against the Czechoslovak Republic (see p. 19). So hot was this roaring menace that all over Czechoslovakia it drove political opponents to take refuge in a common patriotism...
With 1,500,000 Germans armed, mobilized and ready at the frontiers of their country to attack or defend, Adolf Hitler mobilized another 1,500,000 Germans in Nürnberg last week. He then proceeded to turn the annual Nazi Party Congress into a great, step-by-step building of war fright throughout Europe. The evident object was to bluff Czechoslovakia and her friends into the best possible deal for the Sudeten Germans and give Hitler another triumph to flash before his people...
...earth-shaking thud of thousands of large feet goose-stepping at Nürnberg; gargantuan mass drills with shovels, guns, artillery, war planes, brass bands, dumbbells; a solemn annual service for dead Nazi martyrs-these the world hardly noticed, for everywhere people asked "War?" and tried to read the answer in the Nürnberg speeches of Big Nazis...
...Germans believed this, Psychologist Hitler had laid the haunting ghost of the Fatherland-the fear of millions that another War would throw Germany back into the misery and semi-starvation of 1918. In Nürnberg, the Sudeten Germans' "Little Führer" Konrad Henlein suddenly arrived to confer with the Big Führer, went to bed with a very bad cold. Envoys of the Great Powers were received at tea by strict Teetotaler Hitler, and British Ambassador Sir Nevile Henderson was tantalized by not being able to talk to the Dictator before so many people about anything...
Next Nürnberg number was 180,000 husky, two-fisted, district leaders of the Nazi Party from all over the Reich. "I could blindly depend on you!" the Führer told them with rising fervor, "[Germany] is determined to capitulate...