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...Bavaria the ministerial council ordered its 600-man reserve riot police to patrol G.I. trouble spots throughout the province "in view of permanent excesses and some grave crimes" of U.S. troops...
...Bavaria, the locals of Mindelheim hopefully awaited a visit from their greatest living hereditary "prince." His better-known name: Sir Winston Churchill. The Mindelheimers reckoned that Sir Winston, a sixth-generation grandson of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, was a liege lord of theirs through his descent from that ancestor, who was paid off in 1705 with the principality of Mindelheim for military aid to the Holy Roman Empire. In Britain, however, killjoy scholars stuffily pointed out that Sir Winston is merely a collateral descendant of the great Marlborough-and that only eight years after the princedom† was established...
...their sentimental songs. The generals have a little champagne. A young captain (Oskar Werner) rages to a brother officer: "Why does he surround himself with slimy yes men?" Eva's brother-in-law pleads with her for a pass to leave the bunker: "I can be loyal in Bavaria...
...Quarreler. But 67-year-old Fritz Schäffer is used to irritating allies. A prewar lawyer and leading politician in Bavaria, he was picked by General George Patton as the first postwar Minister-President of Bavaria. Soon Schäffer was quarreling with the U.S. occupation authorities because he insisted on hiring ex-Nazis to staff his office. He needed men of ability, he argued, and the question of their Naziism was irrelevant. Patton agreed, but General Eisenhower did not. Schäffer went on hiring Nazis anyway, was discovered, and in the ensuing uproar,* Eisenhower ordered...
...punched cows in Texas, rode horseback mail routes in Colorado, wound up heading the glass and china department of a Detroit department store. In 1879, when he was 24, Rosenthal returned to Germany to buy china. Instead, he bought a castle near Selb, in the heart of North Bavaria's famed porcelain country, and started turning out decorated chinaware. By 1934, when he was banished by the Nazis, Rosenthal had 5,000 employees and ten companies...