Word: budapester
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...intend to be lectured on intervention by those whose character was stamped for all time on the bloody streets of Budapest...
...last big job was the elimination of Hungary's Jews. While the Nazi armies stumbled backward in defeat, Eichmann arrived in Budapest to command the roundup. He conceived another farfetched idea, on a par with the Madagascar scheme. Summoning Jewish Leader Joel Brand, Eichmann said: "I'm prepared to sell you 1,000,000 Jews: blood for money, money for blood. Whom do you want to save? Men who can beget children? Women who can bear them? Old people? Children? Sit down and tell...
Abandoned Mistress. The Russians closed in on Budapest, and it became obvious that Germany's capitulation was only a matter of weeks. Eichmann's response was to step up his shipments to the slaughterhouses. "We must hurry," he said. Then he decamped, leaving behind him his aristocratic mistress, Baroness Ingrid von Ihme. He assured other SS men he would commit suicide, that he would "leap into my grave happy because we will at least have wiped out Europe's Jews...
...into lifelong exile in 1939. Zog, whose notorious chain-smoking (150 cigarettes a day) came as close to killing him as four assassination attempts, spent his last days in a sparsely furnished French Riviera villa where his Hungarian-American Queen, Geraldine, 44, a countess who once sold postcards in Budapest, supported him by writing mystery stories...
...start of his great career, when Composer Bela Bartok was about to become a piano instructor at the Budapest Academy of Music, he fell in love with a former academy student. 17-year-old Violinist Stefi Geyer. The 26-year-old Bartok expressed his devotion in two mistily adolescent letters and in one piece of music-Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra-that conveyed his emotions far more cogently than any words. That was in 1907. For reasons unknown. Violinist Geyer never played the work publicly, and at her death in 1957, twelve years after Bartok died, she left...