Word: tiroler
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Gauleiter Franz Hofer of Tirol was brushed by the wings of victory. "You must stand faithfully and unflinchingly before, behind and beside the Führer," he told the Hitler Maidens. "Victory is nearer than you think...
Persistent reports reached London last week that German troops were moving through the Tirol, down Italy's shank and off the toe to Sicily, where they were massing. From there it was expected that they would be transported to North Africa either by the hazardous sea route which the Italians use, or by air. London also heard that large parts of the Luftwaffe were destined for the Egyptian campaign, to give the Italian Army an overhead striking superiority something like that which the German Army used in the Polish campaign...
These two meet while climbing mountains in the Tirol. Dr. Prochaska of Feldbruck is an impassioned adherent of Hitler to whom the mountains offer an almost mystic attraction: "It had been these mountains here and the others like them that all his life had wooed him from the streets and the houses as the thought of women wooed him. He knew their sloping icy shoulders. . . . He knew the chains of them well; the Ortler group with the tall lovely leaning body of the Ortler casting her shadow from exile on them, and the Venediger looking towards the lagoons...
...Nazi hooligans having been sent from Germany to foment opposition to II Duce in Italy's German-speaking Tirol and to beat up Fascist sympathizers, the Dictator quietly moved up several Italian battalions which arrived in the night, doffed uniforms, put on civilian clothes and next day gave the German hooligans the beating of their lives while Italian police pretended to marvel at the frequency of brawls and fist fights. As the Nazis fled to Nazidom, the regiment resumed uniforms, the Tirol resumed its calm and in Rome spokesmen for II Duce scoffed politely at "those fantastic rumors from...