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...quiet, rambling country house near Munich, 76-year-old Major General Professor Dr. Karl Ernst Nikolas Haushofer, Germany's apostle of geopolitics, last week took poison. His wife took poison also, then hanged herself. His epitaph had already been written - by his son, Albrecht, whom Old Haushofer had denounced to the Gestapo for taking part in the July '44 bomb plot against the Führer. Wrote Albrecht shortly before he was executed last year...
...Ernst ("Putzi") Hanfstdngl, onetime court pianist to Adolf Hitler, was about to be returned to Germany, much against his wishes. In British and American hands through most of the war-and often rumored to be helping the Allies against the Fatherland-he was now in England, had no taste for facing "German underground fanatics" back home...
Forty red-cheeked German girls, bundled up in jackets, overcoats and boots, huddled in a chill classroom of Berlin's Louisa Henriette Schule for their regular lesson in Demokratische Weltanschauung (Democratic Outlook). The Magistrat, the Allied-approved municipal council, had ordered their professor, snowy-thatched Ernst Weber, to teach them about the Nürnberg trials. He began...
Died. Dr. Ernst Berl, 68, chemical-warfare specialist for Austria-Hungary in World War I, for the U.S. in World War II, whose process (1940) for converting carbohydrate-containing plants to coal and oil telescoped into a single hour a job that takes nature hundreds of millions of years; of pneumonia; in Pittsburgh...
Other likely contestants, in the two latter categories especially, are Don Watt, G. M. Edgarton, Ernst Petschek, and Toby Ross...