Word: blomberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, its appearance brought a blizzard of complaints howling down upon Editor Gosta Blomberg and the offices of Sweden's tax collectors. Thousands of outraged taxpayers complained of being undercharged and hence deprived of a listing among the aristocracy of the higher brackets. Others, equally outraged, swore that they had never made that kind of money in their lives. One distressed soul had even quietly tried to bribe Editor Blomberg into leaving his name out of the register. If his wife learned his real income, pleaded the unhappy taxpayer, it would cost him at least a new mink coat...
...stern Editor Blomberg refused to veer an inch from the figures given him by the tax bureau (at a cost of 2? apiece). "It's just as hard to get into this book if you don't qualify," he said, "as it is to get out if you do." Blomberg himself was listed at $7,000 per annum, well below Stockholm's No. 1 earner, Banker Jacob Wallenberg ($170,000), but close to Prime Minister Tage Erlander...
Erika von Blomberg, 35, whose marriage to the late Nazi War Minister Werner von Blomberg got him fired in 1938 (he met her in one of Berlin's tonier brothels), announced happily that she had lately got a number of marriage proposals by mail. She didn't say what her answers had been...
Perhaps the gayest of all the matrons are Frau Keitel (her husband, like Field Marshal Göring, has been detained on business in Nürnberg) and young Frau von Blomberg (who met her late husband, the War Minister, in one of Berlin's most exclusive brothels); they share a ten-room chalet high above the lake...
Despite Gisevius' "terrible accusation," Frau Von Blomberg, now 34, hopes to go to work for the Americans. "I want it to be a decent job," she said...