Word: frau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Nazi police discovered that some of Germany's tenderhearted Hausfrauen were "spoiling out-of-bounds" their Polish prisoners, imported to do the farm work left by Hitler's fighting men. In Mainz a special court convicted Frau Maria Frey of allowing hers "repeatedly to hug and kiss her and replying to these caresses," sentenced her to 18 months' imprisonment. Frau Arna Strauch, convicted more succinctly of adultery, was sentenced to two years and four months. Both were deprived of citizenship for three years...
...Born. To Frau Joachim von Ribbentrop, wife of Nazi Germany's onetime champagne salesman Foreign Minister: a son, their fifth child; in Berlin. Other Ribben-tropchens: Rudolf, 19, Bettina, 18, Ursula, 8, Barthold...
Last week Frau Scholtz-Klink, aged 38, took a second husband: Reich Inspector of Military Academies August Heiszmeyer, 43, father of six. She announced: "We are marrying Dec. 6, thus giving our ten children a joint home." The Rcichsfrauenführerin became in fact the symbol of the perfect Nazi woman. What happened to her first husband was anybody's guess. Guess: He was in a concentration camp...
Diesel was plagued by business troubles almost all his life, but in 1913 things were going fairly well. The Selandia, first big ocean-going ship powered by Diesels, had voyaged from Copenhagen to Bangkok and back. Herr & Frau Diesel still had their big house in Munich, entertained many U. S. engineers there. They took a vacation in Italy. In September, Rudolf Diesel set out for England to see a Diesel plant inaugurated there. He and two friends took a Channel steamer at Antwerp. They had dinner, strolled on deck, went to their staterooms. When the boat docked at Harwich, Diesel...
Across the Atlantic, Canada prepared to receive Frau Engelbert Dollfuss, widow of the Nazi-murdered Austrian Chancellor, quizzed but finally admitted Grade Fields...