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...agonized 15 minutes on the way. At the drainpipe outlet, Cogny heard alarm sirens and the snuffling of a huge German police dog. "I lay there without breathing," he said, "and for some reason the dog trotted off without barking." Cogny scrambled across the barbed wire, across Bavaria and back to Vichy France. But Vichy surrendered to the Germans and Italians in November 1942, and Cogny lost his second army command...
...late Adolf Hitler. To drab little Frau Anni Winter, his onetime housekeeper ("Hitler was always good to me"), the court last week awarded one used Hitler suitcase, five copies of Mein Kampf, a silver-framed photograph, three mediocre watercolors painted by Der Fiihrer himself. The state of Bavaria won custody of three party emblems bearing Hitler's name, plus his leather briefcase and a few of his staff-meeting doodles. Frau Anni promptly announced that she would sell her cherished legacy to buy a café. Bavaria did not say what it planned to do with its inheritance...
Died. Major General Kenneth Frank Cramer, 59, wealthy Connecticut coal dealer and politician, longtime National Guard officer who rose to general's rank in World War II; of a heart attack while on a hunting trip in Bavaria, where he was stationed as commander of U.S. Army troops in southern Germany. A rock-hard disciplinarian, he drew heavy fire from mothers, wives and Congressmen in 1951 for his rigid handling of his 43rd (Connecticut National Guard) Division, and later, in Germany, set off more outcries by his zealous efforts to stamp out drinking and promiscuity (he had a lieutenant...
...signing her, the company has taken on a soprano who has a wide repertory of lyric soprano roles, e.g., Eva in Meistersinger, Micaela in Carmen, Zerbinetta in Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos. She learned more than a score of such roles in the conservatory at Augsburg, Bavaria, before she was 19, kept expanding her repertory in the opera at Aachen, where she stayed three years, and Vienna, where she has been for the past decade. She often works over her music with her husband. Vienna Violinist Wolfgang Schneiderhan...
...first King of modern Greece, Otto of Bavaria, was a lackluster German princeling picked to rule the new nation by the European powers who helped her win independence in 1829 after 400 years of domination by the Turks. He succeeded only in goading his Greek subjects into two revolutions, and leading them to disastrous defeat in war, before he abdicated. Still undiscouraged. the Greeks tried again, and invited Prince William of the Danish royal house of Glücksburg to come over and try his hand. In 1863 he was crowned George I, King of the Hellenes; 50 years later...