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Word: frau (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sybille went to work for the Americans, and things were a little better. Most meals consisted of soup and potatoes, with a thin slice of sausage and cheese three times a week in the evening, and a small chunk of meat on Sundays. By standing in line for hours, Frau Weidner could get bread and now & then some cereal. Sybille even brought home some G.I. candy for her small brother. Dieter looked at it uncomprehendingly. "What is that?" he asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: Quiet | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

...Frau Kube's twelve swine was a brown-haired, blue-eyed girl named Galya Mazanik. In the chamber where Commissioner Kube slept alone, innocent-looking Galya planted a mine one September evening in 1943. It was a dud. Back she went, this time tossed in a hand grenade. It worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Servant Problem | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

...lass, stick it!"); in London. A barber's assistant at six, he never had a day's formal education, believed firmly in marriage (when remarrying at 72 he explained: "I've had three wives and they were all jolly good ones"), once averred that a sensible Frau could keep even Hitler out of mischief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 14, 1946 | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

...last week's secret ceremony was neither the first nor the last of its kind. Clandestine G.I.-Fräulein marriages are expected to increase as winter sets in. A G.I. husband can provide his Frau with extra food, fuel to heat her room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: I Thee Endow | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

...quiet voice, heavy with strain, Frau Meyer told how she had been "supremely happy" with SS Major General Kurt Meyer, whose five children were "very much attached to him." Then, for ten minutes, the prisoner protested his innocence. But five high-ranking officers, conducting Canada's first war-crimes trial (TIME, Dec. 31), needed only half an hour to reach a verdict. Up rose tight-lipped Major General Harry W. Foster to read out the sentence in a gruff, soldierly voice. In more subdued tones, an American interpreter translated it for the prisoner. As the import of the words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: WAR CRIMES: The Sentence | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

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