Word: staaken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporters. To accommodate all this, Berlin, cheated of the 1916 Olympics by the War, spent $24,000,000 on municipal improvements; a 325-acre Reichssportfeld including four stadiums, an outdoor theatre, basketball courts, pools, a polo field, a gymnasium; and an Olympic Village conveniently close to Staaken Airport which can use it for barracks when the Games are over...
...British Gipsy-Moth had taken off from Penshurst, Kent at 10:15 a. m. with the Colonel at the controls and was about to land him for the first time on German soil. As a further precaution, Der Führer permitted Colonel & Mrs. Lindbergh to land at fearsome Staaken, the military airfield ten miles from Berlin which an ordinary German civilian would no more think of approaching unbidden than he would think of committing High Treason...
...Staaken 15 huge German bombers were lined up as if at attention. Special customs guards had gone to the military field for the sole purpose of inspecting the Lindbergh baggage, of verifying how much money was in the Lindbergh wallet. Due at 5 p. m., the Gipsy-Moth alighted at precisely 5:05. Thereupon the entire German Press began grinding out under huge headlines that "the character of Colonel Lindbergh symbolizes the heroic qualities which Adolf Hitler is seeking to impress on German youth...
...that awful, breathless moment when he drops from the plane, before the 'chute billows open. Those sensations have often been described in words, now they have been described in photographs. Three months ago two Germans, Willi Ruge and one Boettcher, made their first jumps from separate planes at Staaken Airdrome, Berlin, each armed with a small, specially designed automatic camera to photograph the other's descent and to take self-photographs during the jump. These pictures were printed six weeks ago in the Illustrated London News...