Word: aryanized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nobel Prizewinner (1931), Warburg is a biochemist about whom anecdotes crystallize. In the '305 the Nazis had winked at the fact that he was "non-Aryan," allowed him to keep on working in the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. Warburg's field was cancer research, and Hitler had a personal dread of the disease. Warburg could also manage the occupation authorities. When Berlin was first occupied, he lost his riding horses twice, once to the Russians and once to the Americans; he got them back each time...
...Merry Widow too. He used to see it as often as three times in a month, but he wanted Lehar to "modernize" it. Hitler's admiration cooled, and later Lehar was put under house arrest in Vienna because he had refused to abandon his wife, a "non-Aryan." At war's end, the composer fared hardly better with the Russians. When his wife Sophie told Red army soldiers that her husband's papers and manuscripts were priceless, they snorted "Capitalist!" and destroyed...
...week, in the courtyard of the Landsberg prison, Karl Brandt went to his gallows.* With him went six other Nazi doctors and SS officers, including Karl Gebhardt, Himmler's physician, and bearded, Mephistophelean SS Colonel Wolfram Sievers, Military Research Institute head who, among other things, had gathered non-Aryan skulls for Himmler's notable collection...
Triumphant Life. Planck himself had triumphs, too. He became rector of the University of Berlin, and won the 1918 Nobel Prize for Physics. But when the Nazis came into power, German scientists with Jewish blood (including Einstein) were hounded out of the country. Many "Aryan" scientists fled too; but old Max Planck stayed behind. In 1934 (he was 76), he went in person to Hitler, to demand an end of Jewish persecution. Hitler turned his back while the old man talked. The following year, Planck was removed from the presidency of the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft (a scientific society). When...
...banker, Elsa de Guttmann secretly married Franz in 1921 (she was Jewish; he a Roman Catholic). When the 76-year-old Prince succeeded to the throne in 1929, the couple went through a public ceremony. After the Austrian Anschluss, Franz began to feel Nazi pressure because of his non-Aryan wife, quietly abdicated because he was getting...