Word: bavarian
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...Bavarian booklet originally was intended only for junior bureaucrats who had been on the job for a year or less. (The reason for bypassing more senior bureaucrats, explained a finance ministry official tactfully, is that they "have gained the necessary experience, or if they haven't, they might feel miffed.") But requests for copies of Behörde und Bürger have come in from other governments across West Germany. A first printing of 20,000 brochures sold out; another 10,000 or so are scheduled to be run off this month...
...return when Hammett is finished, and Herzog, that most rug ged of rugged individualists, will make German films wherever he is. Fassbinder, much as he longs to live in Manhattan, cannot escape the destiny that has made him not only German, but a distinct kind of German, the Bavarian. "The new German directors are like airplanes always circling the airport but never landing," says the philosophical Kluge...
According to Maser, the son, Jean Marie Loret, is an unemployed Frenchman born in 1918 after an 18-month liaison between Hitler and a French peasant girl named Charlotte. At the time, Hitler was a corporal in a World War I Bavarian infantry regiment stationed in the small French village of Wavrin. Hitler did not learn of the birth until after he was taken to a military hospital in Germany suffering from the effects of having been gassed on the front lines; apparently, Hitler made no attempt then to establish contact with mother...
...services, are doing brisk business. Complained one official: "I can't drink a beer without security men. I can't go to the toilet without security men. My family life is ruined. And I can't have a relationship with another woman without security men." A Bavarian tycoon grumbled that the elaborate alarm system hastily installed in his house is forever going off, "sending the two resident guards running into nowhere with their pistols." After the Schleyer kidnaping, Daimler-Benz received 138 orders for bulletproof Mercedes-Benz limousines...
...Soviet armies neared Auschwitz in late 1944, Mengele disappeared. His crimes were prominently mentioned at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. Meanwhile, Mengele was living comfortably-under his own name -in the Bavarian town of Günzberg, where his family owned (and still owns) the town's only industry, a farm-equipment plant. In 1949 West German legal authorities were tipped about Mengele's whereabouts. He got away, using the secret escape routes established by ODESSA (an acronym in German for the Organization of Former Members...