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...born shortly before the outbreak of World War I in Frankfurt am Main. The place was accidental. My father was an opera singer and happened to have a contract with the Frankfurt Opera at the time. He was Hungarian; my mother was Viennese. My father died by accident four weeks before I was born. My mother lived henceforth with her two sisters, who were actresses and very beautiful...
Cache. In Frankfurt, Germany, when U.S. occupation authorities ordered all civilian weapons turned in, law-abiding Bavarians came forward with 100 crossbows, darts, popguns...
Banker Schacht was either sick or stalling. His attorney reported that the onetime Reich Finance Minister had undergone an operation for a "serious rupture," but denazification officials in Frankfurt still hoped to try him by mid-February. In view of Fritzsche's sentence, most observers guessed that Schacht would mend slowly...
Secretary of State Byrnes had promised to help Germans win their way back to a decent place among the nations. In the guise of a small Christmas gift, the U.S. again acted on his promise. On Christmas Eve, in Frankfurt's icy-cold Römerberg Square, where once German emperors were crowned, General Joseph T. McNarney, European Theater Commander, announced an amnesty for 800,000 "lesser" Nazis. Purpose: to "encourage those who come under its terms to seek the ways of democracy...
Zerbe, 43, never liked the paint that comes from tubes. Since his student days at Frankfurt (where he studied chemistry), he had tried all the usual mediums, as well as egg yolk, casein, fig milk, wax soap and Duco automobile enamel. Zerbe got around to encaustic six years ago. He liked its fast-drying, refulgent surface. In 1934 Zerbe moved to the U.S.-out of Hitler's way. The Boston Museum school of art made him a teacher...