Word: tiergarten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...birthday of its creator and Führer this week. On the same day-April 20-Herr Himmler will quietly, without public fanfare, celebrate the fifth anniversary of his appointment as Inspector of the Gestapo. Troops will march down Berlin's Unter den Linden and through the crowded Tiergarten as the 50-year-old Führer receives the frenzied homage of an adoring nation. Clustered around Herr Hitler on a reviewing stand are to be the familiar, conspicuous figures of the Nazi hierarchy-fat, strapping Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Göring, mousy little Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul...
...wide axes cutting Berlin into four parts, a series of four concentric rings of boulevards around the axes' intersection. The 30-mile East-West axis will run from the Lustgarten, connecting Unter den Linden, Charlottenburger Chaussée, the Heerstrasse. Crossing the East-West axis in the Tiergarten will be the North-South axis, which will run for 24 miles from suburban Wedding, past the old Lehrter station and the Reichstag, to the west of the famed Brandenburg Tor, over the Potsdam Bridge, out toward Schöneberg. The four circular boulevards -whose radii from the Tiergarten intersection will...
...Ambassador Hugh Robert Wilson, complained that during the last five weeks she had tramped through 102 Berlin houses, could not find one suitable for the Embassy. Reason: to make room for Government buildings, Nazi city planners have razed residential structures, thereby creating an acute housing shortage in the swank Tiergarten district, where the diplomatic colony likes to live...
...planned for. Policemen spent long hours deciding whether it would be safer for the visitors to disembark from the Friedrichstrasse station nearest to the French Embassy, but surrounded by tall roofs that offered good shelter to snipers, or whether they should be rushed across the city and through the Tiergarten from the more secluded Lehrter terminal...
...Formerly the "Deer Park" where Hohenzollerns hunted with hound and horn in the middle of continental Europe's largest city. Today the Tiergarten is a public park but still bushy and foresty, though crisscrossed by immaculate, grass-bordered avenues...