Word: franz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundreds of other U.S. zone cities and towns last week, the 33,000 citizens of Schwäbisch-Gmünd were electing a Bürgermeister. Up for re-election was Franz Czisch, a 40-year-old grocer and Christian Democrat whom the Nazis had once expelled from law school as a "half-Jew." Opposing him, on a no-party ticket, was Franz Konrad, Bürgermeister under Hitler, twice denazified by his neighbors...
...volume with the use of a sound truck and another charge: "Czisch is a stooge of the Americans!" On election day Konrad won easily. That night, young men marched the streets of Schwäbisch-Gmünd singing the Horst Wessel song. They stoned the house of Franz Czisch, shouted: "Go to Palestine where you belong!" Then they stoned the windows of Jewish shops...
...Presiding Judge Michael A. Musmanno of Pittsburgh handed down their sentences. For Major General Otto Ohlendorf and Brigadier General Erich Naumann and twelve other 55 (Elite Guard) officers: death by hanging. For Brigadier General Heinz Jost and Lieut. Colonel Gustav Nosske: life imprisonment. For Brigadier Generals Erwin Schulz and Franz Six, and an SS major: 20 years. Two field grade officers were sentenced to ten-year terms and the only non-commissioned officer, a sergeant, was released...
Later, some 70,000 non-Communists stood before the old German Reichstag, listening to Socialist Leader Franz Neumann. Pointing to Berlin's historic city gate, on the border between the U.S. and the Soviet sectors, he cried: "There stands the Brandenburger Tor. One hundred years ago it was the border of Berlin. Now it is the border where freedom ends...
...attempt to keep that promise turned out to be far more difficult, exciting-and welcome-than the innocent simplicity of 1923 foretold. Before the quarter-century was done, TIME had tried to comprehend and convey the color, drama and meaning of such far-flung complexities as gangsterism, Franz Kafka, swing music, fancy funerals, Wallis Simpson, Marxism, aerial warfare, soap operas, Arnold Toynbee,* Barbara Hutton, the British spirit, Theodore Bilbo, Chen Li-fu, the Townsend Plan, Suzanne Lenglen, currency devaluation, Aldous Huxley, atomic fission, Jimmy Walker and the Supreme Court...