Word: sportpalast
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...were CDU party members any happier. At CDU meetings all over the country, members demanded that Erhard, brilliant architect of Germany's prosperity, be clearly designated Adenauer's successor. When one politician introduced Erhard and spoke of his "future leadership" at a rally in Berlin's Sportpalast last week, a crowd of 7,000 cheered wildly...
...London, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Essen admirers stomped and hollered for encores. In Hamburg she had to go back onstage in her street dress and Indian moccasins to sing two final songs. In Berlin the manager of the Sportpalast assured her that he had not heard so much audience noise since Hitler ranted there in 1938. He seemed to prefer Mahalia...
...speak, we watched one of the most curious performances in recent campaign history. George Bender, the chairman . . . called for those who would support [Nixon] and there was an animal roar from the hysterical crowd ... It was like a 'stab-in-the-back' rally at the Berlin Sportpalast or the fine justice of the People's Court in one of those East European countries." Thus Max Lerner likened 15,000 Ohio Republicans to Nazis...
...built his Party, from the prison cell into which Hitler was thrown when the first march failed, from the window in the old Chancellery where Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of the Reich. The day's climax was a speech by Hitler himself in Berlin's Sportpalast...
Despite "strictest secrecy," 20,000 people had crowded into the Sportpalast by 4:30 p.m. For blocks outside storm troopers stood every few feet, and in the hall they sat in all the aisle seats. The occasion was all pomp. Above the stage a gigantic golden eagle sparkled against a red backdrop garnished with swastikas...