Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Germany's Landsberg Prison (where his friend Adolf Hitler once wrote Mein Kampf), ex-Gunmaker Alfred Krupp denied a report that he passed the time making toy guns. The fact was that Krupp was using his twelve-year term to resume the trade of his ancestors; he had become a locksmith...
...German cities. His lean but otherwise classical collection of bronze and ceramic figures, done with clean, quiet simplicity, drew nothing but raves from the critics. It was a far cry from the mid-'30s, when his sculptures, seized by the state, toured Germany as warning examples of what Adolf Hitler considered "degenerate...
...real meat of the poll, solemn re-educators of the Germans had to look farther down, where the republic's appeasing Gustav Stresemann, with 580 votes, just nosed out Adolf Hitler, who got 513. The Germans apparently did not think much of the U.S.'s greats. Washington and Lincoln barely won honorable mention, and the late President Roosevelt got only 109 votes-63 less than Stalin, and just enough to tie him for ninth place with France's 17th Century Cardinal Richelieu...
...Mission in Spain. Though banned, it could be bought in the black market at 500 pesetas ($20) a copy. The price was steep but rewarding. Serrano Suñer had passed on to the book's author, Journalist Armando Chavez Camacho of Mexico City, a choice comment by Adolf Hitler on Sancho Davila, a burly Falangist bullyboy who had once killed two party rivals in a political brawl, and had long been feuding with Serrano Suñer. Sneered the Führer: "[Sancho Davila] is stupidity personified . . . the greatest fool ever to come to my headquarters...
Trio No. 4 in D Major, Op. 70 (Adolf Busch, violin; Hermann Busch, cello; Rudolf Serkin, piano; Columbia, 6 sides). This trio ("The Ghost") is of lesser nobility- except for its fine misterioso slow movement -than his Trio No. 6, Op. 97 ("The Archduke"), but here it is splendidly performed. Recording: excellent...