Word: rundschau
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...good barometer of German affairs. They look at the Germans living on the German parts of the lake, in and around the old bishop's city of Konstanz (pop. 33,000). Recently, a Swiss newspaper on the border went through back numbers of Konstanz' local Bodensee Rundschau, found 3,785 obituary announcements for 3,575 men, 210 officers killed on the Russian front between June 22, 1941 and Dec. 1, 1943. The oldest, Artillery General Foehrenbach, was 70; the youngest, a Hitler Youth volunteer, was 17. Forty-three per cent were married...
Neighboring villages also announce their deaths in the Rundschau. But the city's rate of loss is probably over 10%. The 3,785 does not include deaths on other fronts, or wounded, or missing, or those whose families were too poor to put a notice in the Rundschau (minimum rate: 35 marks). In four and a half years of the last war, the area lost 3,148 dead, including 103 officers. This time, losses during two and a half years of fighting on the Russian front alone have been at least 20% higher...
...first important post: navigating officer of the Imperial yacht Hohenzollern. It was a job that might have broken the spirit of an already proved officer. To the unproved Raeder, who had spent 16 years in such jobs as writing thoughtful screeds for the German naval journal, Marine Rundschau, it was a job that led on to destiny...
Next day Tägliche Rundschau, the news-organ closest to Chancellor von Schleicher. carried surprising news of a conference in Cologne the night before between two Germans who a few weeks ago were bitter foes and have since been shelved by the sure, soft hand of the Chancellor. The former foes, Adolf Hitler and ex-Chancellor Franz von Papen, conferred for an hour and a half. According to the plot-hatching Chancellor's own newspaper, they conferred for the purpose of hatching a plot to oust von Schleicher...
German Editors raged. The loan agreement, they recalled, pledges Austria not to join Germany in an anschluss (union). That was why Frenchmen, who want above all to keep Austria and Germany apart, voted as they did. "Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria," stormed Berlin's Deutsche Rundschau, "will figure in history as the Judas of the Germanic cause...