Word: die
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...which ordinarily are probably necessary, it can become an exalted task even outside wedlock for German women and girls of good blood to become -not frivolously but imbued with deepest moral concern-mothers of children begotten by soldiers moving to the front without knowing whether they will return or die for the Fatherland...
...With the One Coin for Fee two aging women, girlhood friends, meet after many years as 1938's New England hurricane blows up. One is at the end of a sexually avid and shameless career; the other is a spinster who jealously despises her. They die in the hurricane, reconciled...
...leaves are falling; we too will fall like them. The leaves die because God wills it, but we die because the English will it. Next spring, no one will remember any longer the dead leaves or the killed poilus. Life will pass on over our graves...
...Christmas the reliable Swiss news paper Die Neue Zürcher Zeitung noted that Germans were buying vacuum cleaners, kitchen utensils, lamps, radio sets, suit cases, purses, wallets out of all proportion to their past needs. Economics Minister Dr. Walther Funk publicly complained that people were investing their money in bathtubs. Last week an official anti-hoarding campaign began as stories were circulated of a woman who bought six electric carpet sweepers, of others who collected copper coins, fur coats, oriental rugs...
Killed in Action. Lieutenant Klaus Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 29, son of Munitioneers Bertha and Gustav Krupp of the Krupp arms works, their second son to die in the war; and Lieutenant Hans Vögler, 26, son of Steelmaster Albert Vögler, of the vast Vereinigte Stahlwerke syndicate; both while piloting planes of the German Air Force...