Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swines?' " To this Dr. Hanfstaengl fervently replied: "Preposterous! . . . Such a remark would include the present Leader of Germany, Chancellor Adolf Hitler, who is also a Roman Catholic." The best Sir Patrick could do was to coax Putzy to admit that when Lady Listowel called upon him at Berlin in behalf of the German pacifist widely mentioned this year for the Nobel Peace Prize, Carl von Ossietzky, whom Nazis have clapped into a prison camp (TIME, Dec. 2), Dr. Hanfstaengl roared at Lady Listowel, "Ossietzky is a swine and a traitor!" Very earnestly last week Putzy testified, "I know Ossietzky...
After serving four years in the Imperial German Army, Carl von Ossietzky made up his mind once & for all against War. As early as 1921 he was organizing German Peace Society meetings in Berlin, while the remnants of the German Army fought a guerrilla warfare with French troops in the Rhineland...
...Olympic games are to be held in Berlin next year and until they are over the Government wishes to conciliate public opinion," said the Bishop of Gloucester. "Afterward an effort will be made, it is said, to sweep away all church organizations in Germany...
...homesick, 18-year-old poet at the University of Berlin sent his sweetheart in his home town three exercise books filled with bad verse, which he soon afterward denounced as "all flat and formless in feeling; nothing natural about them; everything up in the air." The poet was Karl Heinrich Marx, stocky, dark-haired, active son of a well-to-do Jewish lawyer from the Rhineland town of Trier. His 22-year-old sweetheart was Jenny von Westphalen, close friend of his older sister, daughter of a highly-placed official whose family had won its title for military service...
...Friedrich Engels, tall, good-natured son of a wealthy manufacturer, famed for drinking bouts and for philosophic and economic articles in obscure journals. Engels had also begun his literary career by writing bad verse. Their first meeting was unfriendly, since Marx identified Engels with a group of irresponsible Berlin bohemians who had advocated Socialism by getting into fights in brothels and playing tricks on clergymen. In 1843 Marx married Jenny von Westphalen, took her to Paris, met Heine, Proudhon and other Socialists, continued his attacks on the Prussian State until the Prussian Government succeeded in having him expelled from France...