Word: franz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three that were acquitted all face trial in a few weeks by German Spruchkammern (lower courts). Franz von Papen and Hans Fritsche are in Nürnberg. Ailing Hjalmar Schacht is in a Stuttgart hospital, to which he was taken last fortnight, handcuffed, and screaming for an immediate trial. Life imprisonment was apparently agreeing with convicted Rudolf Hess. From Nürnberg last week, came news that his shattered nerves were returning to normal, his stomach aches disappearing...
...Wilde was a sober, intelligent study of a man-and type-who is rarely treated with either sobriety or intelligence. Three literary autobiographies rated notice: Communist Playwright Sean 0'Casey's Drums under the Window, which stirred personalities, poetry and politics into a uniquely Irish stew; Liberal Franz Schoenberner's Confessions of a European Intellectual, which touched more gaily than profoundly on the soul of European man; Tory Poet-Essayist Osbert SitwelPs The Scarlet Tree, which drew pay-dirt from the inexhaustible lode of English aristocratic peculiarities...
Dessau to Dayton. There were other prizes. When the Red Army crunched toward Berlin in April 1945, Dr. Anselm Franz, handsome, Austrian-born and 46, was head of research and development at the great Junkers plant which produced the 0-4 jet engine at Dessau in what is now the Russian zone. Like Braun, he called his top men together. Their unanimous decision: "We want with the West...
...frantic weeks Dr. Franz collected plans and blueprints, experimental engine models. Just before the Russians arrived, ten big U.S. trucks swept into Dessau, gathered up the scientists, made two jampacked trips to the west...
...Franz and 87 other German air scientists are now living in a former National Youth Administration camp near Wright Field at Dayton, brain center of U.S. Army air power. Some of their names were still secret, but among them are men like 1) thin, nervous Dr. Alexander Lippisch, butterfly collector, landscape painter, lute player, and designer of the Messerschmitt 163 rocket plane, 2) blond, ruddy Dr. Hans Heinrich, inventor of the ribbon parachute, 3) Russian-born Dr. Eugen Ryschkewitsch, world authority on heat-resisting ceramics. Other new workers at Wright Field: German aerodynamicists, wind-tunnel men, instrument men and experts...