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...years ago, Schröder didn't even know the grave existed. His older sister, Gunhild, found the site's location through state records. Fritz Schröder was a 27-year-old manual laborer when he married Gerhard's mother, Erika, in October 1939 in the city of Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia. Weeks later he was conscripted, becoming a tank engineer on the Russian front. Gunhild was born the next year, and on hearing of the birth of his son in April 1944, he wrote to his wife: "I am glad for you that this time...
...hard, since insurers hold just under 7% of the total U.S. stock market, according to Federal Reserve statistics. Huge equity losses for the Europeans haven't translated into catastrophe - yet. A couple of small insurers have encountered serious difficulties, including one German firm with ties to the Protestant Church, Detmold-based Familienf?rsorge, which was rescued last month by a bigger insurer after regulators intervened. So far no major European insurer appears to be seriously at risk of failure, largely because of huge cash reserves that enable firms to meet required solvency levels with ease. Fortis, for example...
Wagner's research is backed up by personal experience. After finishing medical school, he spent five years studying piano and conducting at the Detmold Music Academy. There he became frustrated at his inability to make his hands do what he wanted them to do at the keyboard. Despite six hours of daily practice, a couple of trips to a finger stretcher and various remedial exercises, he could not overcome what he took to be his natural limitations, so he abandoned his studies...
...null Detmold, W. Germany...
Still the actors took no chances: on opening night last week, they went out of the way to give unconvincing performances. Just's Rubashov, snapped a critic, was "a melancholy Don Quixote of the Revolution," and the rest of the actors were only "bearers of cues." Detmold's Red newspaper, Volks-Echo, lambasted the cast and said with a snarl: "Its resistance broke down easily before the propaganda offerings of the Fascist warmongers." Even in taking out Red insurance policies, the actors found themselves refused. The reason given by the insurance company: weak hearts...