Word: westerland
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...made the ironic announcement that the northern end of Sylt, a 23-mile sandspit off the Danish-German border, was closed to visitors because it was now a, "bird sanctuary." Every one knew that Sylt's birds were mechanical fowl, their eggs bombs, their nests at List and Westerland protected by coast artillery. One night last week Danes witnessed the bombing of a row of flares set in Rantum Bay to guide Nazi raiders home, another night saw a bomb hit the Hindenburg Dam, a causeway over tidal flats connecting Sylt with the mainland. Danish observers saw a supply...
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