Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What about his letter to Adolf Hitler urging "a great Germanic community, with Norway's voluntary affiliation to the Greater German Reich?" he was asked. A forgery, muttered Quisling, the work of "an enemy...
...schedule for the 25 remaining performances promised none of the oldtime greats - like Bruno Walter, Lotte Lehmann, Max Reinhardt and Adolf Busch. Instead there would be Czech conductor Felix Prohaska; Rosl Schwaiger, s promising and pretty young blond Salzburg soprano; and Pfc. Gilbert Winkler, a 20-year-old calvary rifleman from New Jersey with piano talent. The only opera on this year's program is Mozart's II Seraglio; it is the only one that the Salzburgers could fit out fit a complete set of scenery...
Berlin's first major postwar art show was strictly non-Nazi. Every one of the 25 exhibiting artists had been in bad odor with Adolf Hitler, the onetime house painter...
Alois Hitler, Adolf's halfbrother, was released from custody by the British, who had queried him for six weeks and now pronounced him harmless. "It is clear to us," ran a dry but lightly carbonated statement by the British military government, "that he has led a perfectly blameless existence, being absolutely scared stiff of being associated in any way with the Führer's activities...
...master picture-forger was one Hans van Meegeren, a little-known Dutch artist. Although he worshiped Adolf Hitler, he felt no compunction about unloading a fake on fellow Nazi Hermann Göring. Göring got Christ and the Adulteress in a trade for 173 paintings. One revealing way in which Master-Painter Van Meegeren overshot the mark was by producing so many Vermeers on religious subjects; of all the genuine Vermeers known, the only one that is religious in theme is the Edinburgh National Gallery's Christ with Mary and Martha...