Word: bavaria
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...partisans under a 25-year-old leader named Lakhidnya had fought their way to the U.S. zone last summer. Since then, they have been filtering through in small detachments. They cannot be classed as D.P.s. So the somewhat baffled U.S. military authorities have interned them in a barracks in Bavaria...
Gardeners, Miners, Vintners. In the hot July sun, people tend the little vegetable gardens from which other people steal by night, and gardeners and thieves both act from the same motive-to store food against the awful winter ahead. In Bavaria, a famous movie actor who played leading roles in Nazi anti-Semitic films, is cleared by a denazification board, and before another Spruchkammer in the U.S. zone appears a former high official of the late Ribbentrop's Foreign Office, likewise to walk away a free...
...good old days, were Frau Field Marshal Göring, Frau Deputy Führer Hess, Frau Reichsminister Funk, Frau Governor General Frank, Frau Youth Leader von Schirach.* These wives and widows of Germany's war criminals awaited their own judgment day in a camp near Augsburg. Bavaria's Denazification Ministry was about to try them as "profiteers...
...columns of the Berlin Kurier last week, a middle-aged German named Hans Hirthammer waxed reminiscent over his schooldays in Bavaria's Landshut. They were not happy days. The school's rector was a harsh man who used to set his bullying son to spy on and punish the pupils. Called a born criminal by his father, the boy delighted in dreaming up ingenious punishments. Sometimes he forced the students to empty huge garbage cans and then refill them piece by piece with their bare hands. One day the students rebelled and jammed the rector...
...proud of him," said Heinrich Himmler's granite-hard wife Margarete soon after he killed himself. Last week from Germany came reports that three times she had tried the same trick herself. But Margarete lacked Heinrich's skill. Wanted in Bavaria for trial as a Nazi, she was locked in a lunatic asylum at Bielefeld in the British zone, "a physical and moral wreck...