Word: dieter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours but for the arrival of a carrot-topped youth clutching an eight-foot crucifix inscribed in white letters: Wir Klagen An [We Accuse]. With a bellow that brought half a dozen other young Berliners to his side, the lad, a 20-year-old factory worker named Dieter Bielig, raced to the Wall and brandished the cross at the fuming Grenzpolizei (border police). The West Berlin crowd, held back by police, roared its delight and showered rocks on the Communist guards, who retreated before replying with a powerful blast from a nearby water cannon...
Last week in Detroit, the Wallendas formed a six-man pyramid topped by a young lady in a chair. At the pyramid's base was young (23) Dieter Schepp, nephew of the troupe's leader, Karl Wallenda. He had escaped from East Germany only last year, was in his first week as a member of the troupe. Trying to improve his grip on the heavy balancing pole, he tossed it into the air. He grabbed it again. Then he shouted, "I can't hold it," and lost his balance...
...pyramid toppled. Three men crashed to the ground and lay sickeningly still. The other three men caught the girl and clung to the wire, holding her by her wrists until an improvised net was spread out below. Of the three who fell, two were killed, including Dieter Schepp. The third, Mario Wallenda, had a fractured skull and was not expected to live...
...Himmler, was the kind of man who demanded only that "I click my heels and say ja." Next came Reinhardt ("The Hangman") Heydrich, who had "a well-known failing-a personal failing. He was known for his preening and self-worship." Savagery flashed but once, in his description of Dieter Wisliceny, who had once been Eichmann's best friend and whose name he gave to his second son. But Wisliceny, before being executed, had accused Eichmann of guilt in the mass murders. Eichmann declared that "in holy anger" he had described Wisliceny as a "swine" and an "arse with...
...confined in a heavily guarded cell at an undisclosed location. He wears Israeli army-style khaki trousers, shirt and pullover and when not consulting with his lawyers, keeps busy boning up on standard works dealing with the Nazi persecution of the Jews. His German-born lawyers, Robert Servatius and Dieter Wechtenbruch, meet with him for six hours a day in a windowless room bisected by a glass wall. Lawyers and client have to communicate via earphones and microphones. The lawyers show Eichmann documents and letters from his wife by pressing them against the glass...