Word: schleswig-holstein
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World War II began last week at 5:20 a. m. (Polish time) Friday, September 1, when a German bombing plane dropped a projectile on Puck, fishing village and air base in the armpit of the Hel Peninsula. At 5:45 a. m. the German training ship Schleswig-Holstein lying off Danzig fired what was believed to be the first shell: a direct hit on the Polish underground ammunition dump at Westerplatte. It was a grey day, with gentle rain...
...neutrals received German assurances that their neutrality would be respected. Denmark, mindful of possible German claims on northern Schleswig-Holstein, was not too reassured by a German reference to "problems that may arise between us." In Copenhagen gas masks were issued and blood donors ordered to register at hospitals...
...late this week and, soaring eastward over the North Sea off the low coast of Europe, skirt that continent up to the jigsaw peninsula and archipelago which separate the North Sea from the Baltic. Over Germany's sandy Frisian Islands it would pass, over the fat fields of Schleswig-Holstein, over the belts (straits) of Denmark to tidebitten Zealand Island on whose eastern promontory, only three miles from Sweden across the Sound, lies clean, quiet Copenhagen. From the plane landing at Kastrup, Denmark's top-ranking airport, would step Denmark's broad-shouldered Crown Prince Frederik...
...Schleswig-Holstein Affair," Professor Langer, Harvard...
With Nazi propagandists baying on her borders, Denmark has issued an appeal to Norway and Sweden for a united front against Hitlerism, external and internal. The external attack which the Danes fear is an attempt by Germany to seize Schleswig, that famous member of the Schleswig-Holstein duet which was such a factor in European politics of yester-year. The theft of Schleswig, they say, is one of the primary objects of the Nazi regime, being desired not simply as an additional pasture for German cows, but as a symbol of Teuton expansion and the first of many successful conquests...