Word: charitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sauerbruch went to Berlin's Charité Hospital as head of the surgical clinic and has been there ever since. He now insists that he thought all along that the Nazis were crazy. But he accepted three Nazi awards for his services-the title of Staatsrat (for doctoring President von Hindenburg), the German National Prize and a post as advisory surgeon to the Army during World War II. Meanwhile, in public speeches, Dr. Sauerbruch demanded "freedom" for German scientists. In the final battle of Berlin, he sent a courier to Hitler demanding in the name of the endangered Charit...
When the Russian Army took over Berlin, General Georgi Zhukov appointed old Sauerbruch as Berlin's public-health chief. On U.S. insistence, Sauerbruch was later fired from that job, but he remained in charge of the Charité. Last week Berliners were betting that the denazification court (the Spruchkammer) would clear the doctor. Said he, still spry and fiery at 72: "I am a physician and no Nazi...
...Canada, opinion is divided as to whether Dionne's scheme is the "oeuvre de charité" (charitable act) that the Sisters of the Good Shepherd call it. The General Council of the Catholic Labor Syndicates called it a "great scandal." Other unions have protested. In the House of Commons at Ottawa, CCFer Clarence Gillis labeled it "a fire sale of human misery." But among the 12,000 D.P.s in Camp Wildflecken, near Fulda, Germany, the idea sounds fine. Last week Ludger Dionne, with the help of doctors and the Canadian consul, was busy hand-picking his 100 new mill...
Except for a few artist friends, no one thought much of his work. The one exhibition of his paintings was a fiasco. But when he finally died at 36, in the Hópital de la Charité, 25 years ago this week, Paris flocked to his funeral. An endless cortege of artists and models followed the hearse to the cemetery. Along the way gendarmes, who had arrested him with painful regularity, saluted the flower-decked coffin...