Word: zeppelined
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When Germans were industriously adding branches and roots of eminence to their family trees, bulbous Hermann Göring planted himself a genealogical redwood. He announced that he was directly related to Hohenzollerns, Wittelsbachs, Goethe, Bismarck, Count Zeppelin...
...veterans will see World War I prison camp money, food ration tickets, postal card propaganda and zeppelin air raid pictures. German thin paper nocks are shown, advertised an providing "excellent, protection for the foot against cold and front...
Many German propaganda post-cards are shown, including a special set of cards on the theme of "Gott Strafe England," with high-colored illustrations of zeppelin raids on England and representations of Germanic deities wreaking vengeance on the island kingdom...
...group of cards is shown celebrating various zeppelin and plane bombing attacks on Antwerp, Yarmouth, and other cities. In another set of postcards the German propagandists are shown attacking the Italians of 1915 as "treulos" and "falsch," and ridiculing the Russian army for its defeat at Tannenberg...
Fleet Street's newspaper row got its share one night. The Herald, which was bombed by a Zeppelin in World War I, was hit again. Minister for Aircraft Production Lord Beaverbrook's Standard, in Shoe Lane just off Fleet Street, was flooded when a tank on its roof burst. Next morning the Standard carried a David Low cartoon showing Goring and Goebbels peddling a newspaper called Der Berlin Liar with headlines: "British Press Wiped Out"-and regarding with pained surprise a Cockney newsboy hawking: "Bomb severely damaged in Shoe Lane...