Word: danzig
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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April 26. Britain conscription begins. Hitler in a Reichstag speech asks for Danzig, denounces Anglo-German Naval Treaty and Polish Ten-Year Treaty...
...vestpocket battleships carrying 11-inch Bofors guns, one combined cruiser and aircraft carrier, seven smaller coast-defense vessels, 16 destroyers, 16 submarines. Based at the old Hanseatic port of Visby on Gotland Island (whence come some of the world's finest roses), at Karlskrona across from Danzig and at Göteborg on the Kattegat, this Navy is now a close second to Germany's in the Baltic. Swedish coastal defenses at Göteborg, Kristianstad, Hälsingborg, Karlskrona and Stockholm could do an invader much damage and hold up his attack. Eventually the Allies might...
...daring but interesting undertaking, never before attempted in the history of the world. Protected by the fleet and with the cooperation of the Air Force, I shall order a series of unexpected individual exploits." So spoke Adolf Hitler in 1934 to Hermann Rauschning,* then his chief Party henchman in Danzig, today one of numerous experts who believe that the Austrian Corporal, having taken final leave of his senses, is spinning insanely toward the same fate that overtook a Corsican Corporal 125 years...
...cameraman, Alexander Hackensmid, in England to film the last spasms of pre-war civilian life there. Kline and his wife hurried to Poland. As the last hours of peace ran out, the Klines photographed the reactions of average Poles and the frantic defense preparations of the Polish Army. In Danzig another Kline cameraman photographed Nazi doings...
...other side of Europe Danzig fills with truckloads of Hitler's jaunty armed "tourists." German ships bring in harmless-looking cargoes-arms. Across the main square of the old Baltic port Propaganda Minister Goebbels trips like an absurd gnome in a great coat that reaches his heels...