Word: frau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile a Swedish songstress named Lala Anderson (whose recording had caused the Belgrade furor) had made Lili Marleen the rage of Berlin cabarets. Actress Emmy Sonnemann (Frau Hermann Göring) sang it for Nazi bigwigs at a concert in Berlin's Kroll Opera House...
...knocked the Ambassador and Frau von Papen flat on the asphalt pavement. It blew the trousers off the Ambassador. It blew another man entirely to pieces-probably the man who had carried the bomb-and spattered his blood as far as the Papens...
...this sensational subject the subtle and shrewd Countess Waldeck is almost the ideal reporter. When she was Frau Dr. Ullstein in 1930, she was the storm center of a sensational Berlin spy trial involving the once-great Ullstein publishing house. Later, as plain Rosie Goldschmidt, she wrote (under the initials R.G.) Prelude to the Past, in which she described with unusual candor the Ullstein affair and one or two of her own. Still later she married the Hungarian Count Waldeck, a marriage in which friendship and German passport considerations were deftly blended. She is now in Manhattan...
...here of their old campaigns and think up new ones. At one time or another Franz von Papen, Hitler's ambassador to Ankara . . . would rest in the lobby. . . . Suave Dr. Clodius, Hitler's economic wizard, would recover his breath here after endless discussions with General Antonescu. . . . Even Frau Himmler, wife of the Gestapo chief, looking like Elsa Maxwell, came and ate big portions of whipped cream...
There was also Frau Edit von Coler. She lived at the Athene Palace, but never gave people more than a glimpse as she whisked across the lobby or drove down the Calea Victoriei in her "long grey Mercedes." Rumor said that she was Himmler's sister and a modern Mata Hari. Says the Countess Waldeck: "Mata Hari and her sisters were dumbbells in an era when bare skin was supposed to make generals lose their heads. . . . [Frau von Coler] was not Hitler's spy, but a Hitler propagandist. . . . And to make friends and influence people," adds the Countess...