Word: teutons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...according to Dr. Hanfstaengl - Bismarck, Demosthenes, the art of public speaking and Hitler as an orator. While special correspondents of all leading news services hung around Dr. Hanfstaengl day after day on the chance that his presence would start a race riot, he parried their questions with 100% Teuton wit. Asked whether Adolf Hitler or Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the better orator, he chuckled: "Ha, Ha! That is like asking which is better in a storm, umbrellas or overshoes...
...from Italy. For the big show 3,000 picked Fascist militia were mobilized in Venice by steel-muscled, pantherlike Secretary of the Party Achille Starace and 80 bulging German detectives shook Venice's Grand Hotel with the tramp, tramp of their arrival. Paying guests were vexed as these Teuton sleuths commanded "Stay in your rooms this morning or leave the hotel. Every corridor must be empty when Der Fiihrer arrives." Sharp at 9:45 a. m. Il Duce was at Lido Airport in his favorite grey-green uniform of a Corporal of Honor of the Fascist Militia, perspiring under...
...first day but afterwards drew Hitler down somewhat from his cloud of Teuton mysticism...
...long has Germany been victimized. Twenty years have brought to light many factors not universally known at the time the great configuration started. No longer can the Teutonic nation be shouldered with full and sole responsibility for the war that tore Europe asunder. The time has come for sensible treatment of a situation that has caused as much unrest and anxiety as the war itself. Germany must be given an opportunity to regain her self-respect and full nationhood. If another world catastrophe is to be avoided, she must be accepted among her fellow states as an equal. Proud...
...Michael's, which was jammed to overflowing with Munich Catholics, His Eminence thundered: "Let us not forget that we were saved not by German blood but by the blood of Christ!" Storm Troopers did not set upon Cardinal Faulhaber. They let him proceed to ridicule the myths of "Teuton supremacy" in ancient times-myths, said His Eminence, which, even if taken at their face value, show the earliest and purest Teutons to have been slothful, self-indulgent, quarrelsome and degraders of women whom they condemned to the lowest menial tasks. Only a cardinal, a Prince of the Church, could...