Word: stettin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...when Seeckt reorganized the Reichswehr in 1919, Brauchitsch got an appointment as a major in Stettin. By 1922 he was head of artillery in the Defense Ministry, a key figure in Germany's miniature Army. He became a lieutenant colonel in 1925 and served a turn in a Prussian artillery regiment. In 1930 he was back in the Defense Ministry as director of military training, with the rank of colonel. His career seemed to lie in office work, and after serving briefly as chief of staff of the 6th Artillery Regiment he was given the routine assignment of inspecting...
...many rivers, providing cheap transportation in peace time and invaluable aid in war, when railroads are occupied with troop and munition movements. Last week the Baltic Sea was joined to this system. A 1,200-ton lighter could have come in off the Baltic, down the Oder past Stettin, by canal through the centre of Berlin to Magdeburg on the Elbe, to Brunswick, to Hanover to Minden on the Weser, to Munster on the Ems, and down into Dortmund in the heart of the rich mining and industrial valley of the Ruhr, a tributary of the Rhine. Thus provided...
Felix, Count von Luckner, famed Wartime sea raider, sailed from Stettin, Germany in the schooner Seeteufel ("Sea Devil") on a two-year, 16,000-mi. world cruise "not after ships, but out to capture hearts for Germany...
...Stettin, Germany, Jan. 27--The local Hitler youth district commander today forbade wearing shorts baring the knees while on winter duty...
...course the Fatherland is still allowed to fire torpedoes from his surface war boats. In Stettin last week the commander of the 6,000 ton cruiser Karlsruhe offered 500 marks reward ($120) for the return of two torpedoes lost by him in recent Baltic Sea torpedo practice...