Word: kaiserhof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Berlin's Tempelhofer Feld, a thousand-acre open space, long the Fatherland's proudest parade ground, was made over into Europe's crack airport five years after the War. Fifteen minutes' taxi ride away is the heart of the German capital, swank hotels like the Kaiserhof, Adlon, Esplanade. Though still one of the most modern airports in the world Tempel-hofer's buildings last week were ready for destruction to make way for an even more colossal port. It is calculated to serve the biggest commercial planes of the century ahead, and to function...
Windsor, whose family name at his birth was Saxe-Coburg mid Gotha, spoke German like a native with Dr. Ley who promptly drove Germany's guests to the Kaiserhof Hotel, generally considered Berlin's No. i Nazi rendezvous. There Dr. Ley presented a huge box of chocolates with card addressed to "Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Windsor"-although the Duchess has not yet been raised by His Britannic Majesty to the rank of Royal Highness...
While the Duchess rested at the Kaiserhof, Dr. Ley started the Duke out on what is to be an intensive fortnight's tour of German factories, housing and worker recreation projects by driving H. R. H. to the "model machine works" of R. Stock & Co. Taking England's onetime King repeatedly and vigorously by the coat lapel, Dr. Ley proved himself a buttonhole orator, talking loud enough to be heard ten feet away by correspondents above the whirr of machines...
After His Royal Highness and the Labor Front Leader had passed on, another German workman told correspondents, "It would be better for Germany if he had stayed on the throne." Germans seemed this week to think that Windsor must be ardently pro-German, reacted by waiting about the Kaiserhof in crowds of as many as 300, cheering and all but mobbing H.R.H. at every opportunity...
...Putting away his Fascist brown shirt and barring Fascist uniforms from his entourage, Chancellor Hitler transferred routine management of his Party to a newly created General Secretary, Captain Otto Wagener, 44, once of the Imperial General Staff, who was installed last week at Berlin's Kaiserhof Hotel in rooms adjoining the Chancellor...