Word: falkenhayn
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Relatives of Germans beheaded nowadays usually receive a sealed Nazi urn supposed to contain the ashes. Last week perhaps because she came of one of Prussia's first fighting families, Nazis did not cremate the remains of beauteous Baroness Benita von Falkenhayn, who lost her head fortnight ago while Polish Baron George Sosnowski, her master in amours and spying, was let off with life imprisonment...
...Imperial Germany. Though there is generally no parson at such funerals, a Protestant pastor was permitted to officiate. Meanwhile all Berlin gaped at scarlet and black posters stuck up everywhere in which Adolf Hitler pointedly emphasized the obvious fact that he had refused to save from beheading Baroness von Falkenhayn and the other beauteous spy who was beheaded with her, aristocratic Frau Renate von Natzmer...
...story have been leaking out (TIME, Nov. 19). Baron George ("Yurek") Sosnowski is an extremely handsome young Pole who served gallantly in the Austrian Army, loves women, excitement. Deeply infatuated with him was the beautiful Baroness Benita von Berg, a blonde whose first husband was Richard von Falkenhayn, son of the late great General von Falkenhayn. Berlin society knew that it was to escape the influence of Polish Baron Sosnowski that beauteous, divorced Benita married stolid Baron von Berg. Curiously, all four remained friendly, all went to the same parties. Sosnowski's parties were enough to set Berlin gossips...
...guests, over 50, were rushed to jail, many of them kept there for days without a chance to change the evening clothes that they had come in. Then the weeding out started. One of the first to be released was Baroness von Berg's first husband, von Falkenhayn. He turned out to be a member of the secret police himself...
...Kaiser, appointed to the command of the Eighth Army and as such won the immortal (from the German point of view) victories of Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes. He was subsequently promoted to be Field Marshal, appointed Chief of the General Staff (the highest Army position) in succession to Falkenhayn...