Word: aloises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adenauer, e.g., black-bearded Alois Hund-hammer, Bavarian Minister of Education who successfully sabotaged U.S. Military Government efforts to reform the German school system.
Greatest honor that Oberammergau has to offer is the role of Christ, twice played in the '30s by Hotel Proprietor Alois Lang. In 1947, Lang was let off lightly by a de-Nazifi cation court after he had protested that the Nazis had bullied him into joining the party...
In Czechoslovakia the government produced a package of priestly "high treason." The Rev. Alois Fajstl, the state announced, had been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment plus confiscation of his property and loss of civil rights for ten years. The charge: when called to give the last rites of the...
Some time this month, the man who played Christ will be tried by a denazification court. But whether or not he is cleared, the little Bavarian town of Oberammergau (pop. 3,944) will probably need a new Jesus. By 1950, greying Alois Lang will be 59 and too old for...
Two Ways. The biggest casting problem of all is the Christus role. Current favorite is young ex-Luftwaffe Pilot Hans Lang, cousin of Alois and his understudy in the last play in 1934. But many villagers are arguing that Hans's chestful of medals and his smoking, drinking and...