Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most Saarlanders, prosperous beyond their wildest dreams of five years ago, let their stomachs-and memories-decide. In 1935, after voting-90%-to rejoin the Reich, the Saarlanders heard Adolf Hitler promise: "In ten years' time, you won't know your city of Saarbrücken." Hitler was right: by 1945 the entire Saar basin was a heap of smoldering ruins...
...Adolf Sannwald (Enemy Casualty)" remains one of the two names inscribed under the Divinity School, of which he was a member of the class of 1926. Last December 11 the University admitted "the inclusion of the name of one alumnus who served in the German army was an error and will be corrected...
...teen-age gangs: a band of "Storm Troopers" who for weeks had annoyed the upper-bracket suburb of Metairie by smashing street lights, throwing rocks through train windows, and general hell-raising. They carried mimeographed membership cards, in English and crude German, adorned with swastikas and pictures of Adolf Hitler. In their headquarters, an abandoned store, police found 4,000 rounds of 22-caliber ammunition, some shotgun shells, 36 knives, a rifle and two air rifles. The group's Führer was 15. Said he: "I have information that Hitler is still alive in Argentina. I am going...
Royalty from all Scandinavia gathered in Stockholm to celebrate the 70th birthday of King Gustaf Adolf of Sweden. Among the special events: a gift contributed by his subjects, a check for 5,000,000 kroner ($966,500), which the King said would be used to further Swedish culture; an all-Wagnerian concert by the Royal Court Orchestra, conducted, after shirtsleeved rehearsals, by King Frederik of Denmark...
Gustav VI Adolf, now 70, holds an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws at Harvard. He visited the United States...