Word: bavaria
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Ludwig II, King of Bavaria: Eleanor DeLorme, Fogg Museum Christian Room...
...also the perverted emblem of his origins. He came from a wealthy commercial family in Bavaria. He studied Kant, earned a Ph.D. at the University of Munich and his medical degree at the University of Frankfurt. An early convert to Nazism, he volunteered for the Waffen SS. On the railroad ramp at Auschwitz, where Mengele presided over the selection process, deciding which of the terrified prisoners were fit for slave labor and which were fit only for the gas chambers, he wore white gloves and highly polished boots, and occasionally whistled fragments of Wagner. In doing so, he defiled music...
...performed gruesome medical experiments on Nazi victims at the Auschwitz- Birkenau concentration camp in Poland during World War II--and then he is said to have returned to his hometown of Gunzburg in Bavaria. He is said to have been arrested and released by U.S. counterintelligence agents in Vienna in 1947--and then to have made his way to a wealthy suburb of Buenos Aires. He is said to have narrowly eluded Israeli agents who kidnaped fellow Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires--and then taken up residence in neighboring Paraguay, where he is rumored to be living today...
...slides in the summer. Salt scattered over ski runs to harden the snow now fouls water supplies, as do the tons of detergents from hotels and condominiums. Animals that need space, such as eagles, lynxes and hares, are disappearing. The contamination of mountain streams has put 70% of lower Bavaria's fish on the endangered list. And perhaps gravest of all, the forests, ravaged by the encroachments of civilization, are struggling for survival: according to one survey, some 45% of Bavaria's Alpine woods are sick...
Kohl's prompt action effectively quieted speculation that a wholesale Cabinet shake-up would follow Lambsdorffs' resignation. The Chancellor also wanted to forestall pressure from Franz Josef Strauss, the leader of the Bavaria-based Christian Social Union (one of the three parties in the governing coalition), who makes no secret of his desire for a major Cabinet post. Strauss, however, played almost no role last week, since he was mourning the sudden death of his wife Marianne, 54, in an automobile accident...