Word: alexanderplatz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...murdered by the command of Communist party leaders." On the strength of this testimony Epstein and Ziegler were sentenced to decapitation. No effort was made to hush up the fact that Hero Horst Wessel, far from disliking women as has been suggested, kept a buxom mistress, Lucie of the Alexanderplatz. Also cleaned up last week was the biggest high treason trial ever held in Germany, with no defendants. German papers reported the trial only on the first day. After that Communist defendants by the dozens began retracting confessions of treason which they dared to accuse Nazis of having exacted from...
...January 1930, Horst Wessel and his mistress, a streetwalker known as Lucie of the Alexanderplatz, took rooms in a boarding house on the Frankfurterstrasse. The landlady, a Communist in good standing, tipped off her friends. That night a group of men tiptoed up to Horst Wessel's door. When the door was opened, a volley of pistol shots cut him down...
...Communists, are Peter Stoll, tailor; Solly Einstein, painter; Hans Ziegler, barber. Object of the trial is not only to chop the heads off Peter, Solly and Hans, but to produce witnesses who will swear to the upright and lofty character of Horst Wessel and Lucie, once of the Alexanderplatz...
...birth of books is never quite legitimate, and often their parentage is hopelessly confused. Few carry their lineage so plainly in their lineaments as Alexanderplatz, Berlin, first Big Book obviously fathered by Maestro James Joyce's potent, muchdiscussed, comparatively little-read Ulysses. Author Doblin makes no acknowledgment to Maestro Joyce; none is necessary...