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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Free Corps members (somewhere between 1,000 and 2,000) swore fresh fealty to Adolf Hitler, took their oaths on a copy of Mein Kampf, insisted that the rightful leader of Germany is Admiral Karl Doenitz, Hitler's designated heir, who still has three more years to pay in Spandau prison for his war crimes. A threadbare, ragtag lot, the Freikorps met, often in groups of 150, in beer halls, and talked of a Nazi government in West Germany, "possibly by 1957." Unlike the group arrested by the British, which was clever enough to realize that neo-Nazis must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Ragtag Reminders | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...smoky beer hall, Panzerknacker Rudel seemed to feel that he was back in the Stuka dive bomber with the European Army (EDC) as his target for the night. "We cannot join these Western schemes," he shouted. "[They would mean] the immolation of the German people . . ." Added General Adolf Wolf: "America wants to use us as additional horses . . ." Anyone who cooperates with such designs, said Wolf, "will expose himself . . . as a man without honor or comradeship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Collector of Opinions | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

...sseldorf, a West German court ruled that the last will & testament of Adolf Hitler, drawn and signed on his last day in his Berlin bomb shelter (April 29, 1945), is valid. The will left his estate to the Nazi Party or the state government succeeding him. Among the losers under the ruling: a Swiss publisher and Frau Paula Hitler-Wolf, a stepsister, who sold the Swiss exclusive publishing rights to the record of Hitler's dinner-table conversations. The result: no copyright protection. A German publisher, out with a pirated edition, can keep right on selling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 15, 1952 | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

Purcell's greatest ordeal is yet to come. Last Saturday he left by plane for Stockholm, Sweden, where King Gustav Adolf will give him a medal, a scroll, and a monetary reward during the week-long celebration for Nobel Prize winners. "Bridgman (Physics Nobel Prize in 1946) has told the pretty well what to expect; it will be quite an affair. It's been so frantic around here I don't know if I'm excited , but I must admit I'll be glad to get away--after all you don't get the unless you go to Sweden...

Author: By David C. D. rogers, | Title: Edward Purcell | 12/9/1952 | See Source »

...Editor Huie, Maguire's acquaintances came as no surprise. "I knew I was taking a calculated risk," says he. "I knew about Maguire's indiscretions and operations with the Christian Front crowd. But money to me is impersonal. If suddenly I heard Adolf Hitler was alive in South America and wanted to give a million dollars to the American Mercury, I would go down and get it-or Stalin." No matter who the backer is, Huie maintains he can control the Mercury's editorial policy, expects the magazine will ride out this storm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Trouble for the Mercury | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

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