Word: westphalia
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...three days & nights Allied planes had worked over 53 target areas in the Ruhr-Westphalia sector, north and east of Field Marshal Montgomery's points of attack. Crossroads villages became the rims of great craters. Towns burned like torches for a night, smoldered for a day, then lay blackened and dead. The rain of bombs knocked out cities' antiaircraft defenses, and the flak vanished. Then the cities themselves vanished under clouds of flame-streaked smoke...
...dawn to dusk a vast procession of aircraft streamed across the Channel. Nearly 2,000 were engaged directly in the airborne drops (see above). But there were at least 8,000 more-from England, The Netherlands. France, Belgium, from new-won fields inside Germany itself. At some points over Westphalia there were five layers of aircraft, crisscrossing at set altitudes, building a wall of fire inside a 1,000-sq.mi...
...their joint task Jacob was the indefatigable collector, Wilhelm the devoted editor. But the purpose of both was to preserve intact the rhythms and patterns of a primitive, oral literature. Their first publication, in 1805, was a collection of folk songs, Des Knaben Wunderhorn. The following year Napoleon overran Westphalia. Jacob, who spoke French, got a clerkship in the war office and in 1808 was appointed superintendent of King Jerome Buonoparte's private library. The job assured the brothers an income with which to continue their life work...
Strongest in Westphalia, the Feme of 700 years ago had a Robin Hood flavor. But by 1500, the Feme had become a synonym for persecution. Membership had grown above 100,000 and many used the protection of the Feme for their own ends. But such was its terror that less than 100 years ago scrolls sealed by the Feme could still be found in German archives. On the seals was written: "None may read unless he be a juror of the Feme"-and none had read...
Gauleiter Hoffman of hard-hit Westphalia took the stand last week to counteract rumors of destruction and death circulating in the Ruhr. Said he: "It is claimed, for instance, that Hans Fritsche [official radio commentator] said in a broadcast that 10% of the armament industry has been destroyed in a raid on Dortmund. Fritsche said no such thing. This also applies to the catastrophe of the Möhne Dam. Twenty and 40 thousand were mentioned as the number of fatal casualties. The true figures were published. ... It is a deplorable fact . . . but we can admit it quite frankly...