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Word: franz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walls of Saint Stephen's stood gaunt and beautiful. The interior was gone. At the Chancellery a bomb had sheered away the room where Dollfuss was assassinated. One wing of the hideous neo-Roman Parliament was burned out. Both the Burgtheater and the Belvedere were in ruins. Franz Josef's Hofburg was scarred but essentially undamaged. So were Schönbrunn and the Rathaus. One bridge remained over the Danube Canal. About 70% of the inner city, where the big stores, shops, hotels, restaurants and public buildings are concentrated, were in ruins or useless because of damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Poison Please | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

...Correspondent Franz Weissblatt was ambushed and shot by Japs on Bataan. The bullet shattered the top of his right thighbone. The Japs stripped, spat on and kicked him, then threw him naked into a truck. Seven days later they dressed his wound with mosquito netting soaked in picric acid. That was all the medical treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Weissblatt's Leg | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

Died. Georg Kaiser, 67, German novelist and playwright (From Morn to Mid night), who was expelled by the Nazis in 1933 from the Prussian Academy of Art (along with Thomas Mann and Franz Werfel); in Ascona, Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 18, 1945 | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

Among the throngs of Nazis, big & small flushed from cover in Germany, were two chiefly notable for the spitting expressions they wore (see cut): Franz Xaver Schwarz, left, Nazi party treasurer, and his grimacing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Torment | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

...pianist was 75-year-old Franz Lehar, the world's greatest living composer of operetta music. His first brush with the Nazis came when he refused to leave his "non-Aryan" wife. After a second arrest, he moved to the Austrian town of Bad Ischl. Army G.I.s found him there last week. The portly oldster spoke of the future: "Music will come again . . . I shall write . . . about the struggle of peoples for freedom. There are many things in my head and tomorrow I start to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Lehar Liberated | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

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