Word: fischer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George Fischer, historian, of Madison, Wisconsin. A.B. University of Wisconsin, 1947; A.M. Harvard...
Handicap. In Redwood City, Calif., Theodore A. Fischer explained to the court that his $40-a-week alimony payments would have to be reduced, now that the police had closed down his bookmaking business...
...Himmler." Other Germans were important to the Russian plans. One was Kurt Fischer, appointed head of the department of the interior of the central administrative agency of the Soviet zone last July. In his 503, Fischer seems to most Germans to have the appearance of a typical Biedermann (Babbitt): neatly dressed, round-faced, with greying, slightly wavy hair. But Fischer was a veteran of the Communist Spartacist League, which ruled Berlin for ten days...
Just behind Fischer in the new police setup was the minister of the interior of Brandenburg Province, Bernhard Bechler. Still in his 40's (and a former major in the Nazi Eighth army at Stalingrad), Bechler was as yet little known outside Berlin; but Berliners had begun to call him "the new Himmler." Talking with fellow Communists, Bechler was succinct. Said he recently: "We have until 1950, at the latest, to liquidate the bourgeois parties. By that time, the state police will be trebled and so well trained that, with the help of them and of the armed action...
Lenin invented that kind of Communism, although Ruth Fischer prefers to blame it on Lenin's heir, Stalin...