Word: viktorias
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Several times in reference to the V-Campaign TIME has asserted, or implied, that the word "victory" or "viktoria" is unfamiliar to Germans...
Truth is that every little school boy in Germany knows by heart at least one poem which either begins or ends with "Viktoria!" or which employs the word in conjunction with similar exultations like "hurra" and "gloria...
...success were the efforts of the Vaterland and its vassals to neutralize it. From the Eiffel Tower hung a V flag. Nazi propaganda photographers snapped V-stenciled trains in Prague, bored workmen V-painting tenders (see cut). To good Nazis, these Vs of course stood for the unfamiliar word Viktoria...
...principle of if-you-can't-lick-'em-join-'em, the Nazi Propaganda Ministry announced that V stood for Nazi victory-Viktoria-thereby impairing the purity of the German vocabulary by importing a foreign word, for the native German word for victory is Sieg. Germans were urged to use the symbol. In rendering this decision Dr. Goebbels made a mistake: since the V-sign was no longer verboten, the Germans could not suppress...
Heart Probe. At the Auguste Viktoria Hospital, Eberswalde, Germany, a Dr. Forssmann, assistant surgeon, opened a vein at his elbow and into it worked a long, soft rubber probe through the circuitous passages to his heart. Then he walked to the hospital X-ray machine to prove his accomplishment. Similar stunts have often been performed on experimental animals. The therapeutical value of such practices is not yet known, but Dr. Forssmann thinks that such probing can introduce certain medicaments directly to the heart better than the blood will carry them there...