Word: ferdinands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inviting Attention. The Navy's star witness, able Secretary Jim Forrestal, in vited the committee's attention to an alternative plan drawn for him by Ferdinand Eberstadt (investment banker and onetime vice chairman...
...onetime Communist deputy in the Mecklenburg provincial government, Edwin Hörnle, oldtime Communist leader and Reichstag deputy; Eugene Schiffer, 85, Liberal Democrat and once Reich Finance and Justice Minister; Dr. Wilhelm Fitzner, Social Democrat, a lawyer who had served a three-year term in a concentration camp; Dr. Ferdinand Friedensburg, 58, Christian Democrat, former Berlin police official and ex-head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute; Helmut Lehmann, Social Democrat, freed from a concentration camp by the Russians last April...
Subject of countless and traditional stories, some apocryphal and some unfit for publication, Professor Warren's violent temper caused him at one time to be called "Ferdinand." He once told a student, "You're in very shallow water, but you're sinking fast...
...Prince Louis Ferdinand Hohenzollern, grand son of the Kaiser and former Ford Motor Co. employe, last week told A. P. Correspondent Louis Lochner that he had approached Ribbentrop in the autumn of 1938 as a secret and unofficial emissary of President Roosevelt. Roosevelt, said the prince, wanted to arrange a meeting with Hitler, Mussolini and Neville Chamberlain to avert the approaching war. Ribbentrop's only an swer to the prince's suggestion was a threat to have him thrown out of the Luftwaffe...
...Germans of the Middle Army Group in Czechoslovakia and northern Austria ignored surrender orders. Under command of Field Marshal Ferdinand Schörner (wanted by the Russians as a war criminal) and Colonel General Otto Woehler, the Wehrmacht stumbled blindly on, fought, then despairingly submitted or fled. By week's end the Russians had rounded up 1,230,000. Still at liberty were Schörner and Woehler...