Word: aryan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franz Lehar, venerable (74), Hungarian-born Viennese operetta king, composer of Adolf Hitler's favorite operetta, The Merry Widow (1905), was reported under "house arrest" in his Vienna home. Aryan Lehar's only other reported brush with the Nazis occurred three years ago when he refused to obey Nazi orders to leave his Jewish wife...
Judge Pailhé summoned the witnesses. They testified, and their evidence was damning. Chack had received 68,000 francs a month from the Vichy Government, had founded a French "Aryan Club." The public prosecutor pointed at the defendant, cried: "I demand that you be shot. . . . Such a man as you can expect no mercy...
...Istanbul a friend of the Nazis was missing. Thomas Ludwig (or Lewine), Gestapo agent and "honorary Aryan," had a trap door in front of his desk which, in his heyday, he used to snap open by means of a concealed button. Said he: "In this work [spying] one must be prepared to spirit away undesirable elements without a trace." Last week Ludwig had vanished without a trace...
Back from the Normandy beachhead poured 15,000 prisoners wearing the Reichswehr green. Most of them were Germans but a surprising proportion was not. With the Aryan supermen came a polyglot sprinkling of at least 12 nationalities. Some of the slave peoples, it seemed, could be persuaded to fight for the Herrenvolk...
...porcine athlete flexes his Aryan muscles to impress the vanquished, while a bony female collaborationist applauds hungrily...